A question I made years ago (as a wish: allow to include source code from a common area), and that was raised also recently by another user (wanting to hide the code of routines he gives to his students).

Hello Philho and everybody in general:

In case people are insterested, it is possible to do the same thing with symbolic links in Windows as well. 

That's OK in Linux. For Windows to do the same, the CLI utility which creates file/folder links
is more complicated than Linux counterpart.
I use a utility in Windows to help accomplish that -> HardLink Shell.

haha! well done GoTo! :) looks like we were writing same post at the same time :)

Finally found after using it intensively that my previous method had some caveats.

Found better using this other method:


1) In my bash_profile I created a function that initiates for me my processing projects called createP5Project that will create the project for me, and will copy all the files in my common folder (where the SaveManager is, for example) to my current folder, as processing doesn't allow subfolder sketches

2. function createP5Project()        {
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5. md "$@"
6. mkdir temp
7. mkdir output
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10. touch "$@".pde
11. echo "
12. void setup() {
13.   size(1000, 1000);
14.   background(0);
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17.   SaveManager.beginRecord(this);
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22.   SaveManager.endRecord(this);
23. }
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25. 
    
26. void draw()  {
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29. }
30. 
    
31. 
    
32. void keyPressed() {
33.   SaveManager.save(this);
34. }" > "$@".pde
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36. 
    
37. cp -a /processing\ \&\ arduino/code/* .
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40. git init
41. git add .
42. git commit -m "first commit"
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44. 
    
45. }

This will create my project, initialize git, copy all my misc files that contain reusable code, etc

Well, if you're so good with linux scripting, it may as well be easier and cleaner for you just to collect all your sketch code in a library.

Yes, being on Windows, offering no simple, native way to create and manage links (they are not part of the common Windows culture), I often overlook this solution.

I found an extension that seems more up-to-date (mentioning Windows 8!):  http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.htm

Hmm... That's the same site and same program I keep mentioning for months!!! 

(they are not part of the common Windows culture)...

Besides hark links and derivatives, another secret which Windows has,
and is common knowledge to UNIX culture is mounting of partitions/volumes!

Windows has a multi-root structure for its file system. And each 1 is referred to a letter such as C:\.
However, if a system has so many partitions as to use up all alphabet letters,
another recourse has to exist!

And within its Disk Management in Administration Tools, there's an option to mount partitions
choosing a folder as a target point; just like Linux and other UNIXes! 

The original contents from that folder is just overshadowed by the mounting.
Once its dismounted, the original content re-appears intact!

Take notice that all of those hard links and mounting features are inherent of the NTFS file system!

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