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| Workbench</h1> |
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| <div CLASS="Intro">The term <i>Workbench</i> refers to the desktop development |
| environment.</div> |
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| <p CLASS="Para" Label="Type">Each Workbench window contains one or more |
| perspectives. Perspectives contain views and editors and control |
| what appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one Workbench |
| window can exist on the desktop at any given time. |
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| <p CLASS="Para">The following preferences can be changed on the Workbench |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Option</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Description</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Default</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Perform build automatically on resource modification</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">If this option is turned on, then the Workbench will |
| perform an automatic build whenever a modified resource is saved.</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">On</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Save all modified resources automatically prior to manual |
| build</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">If this option is turned on, then whenever you perform |
| a manual build (from the menu bar, select <b>Project > Rebuild All</b>), the Workbench |
| will automatically save all resources that have been modified since the |
| last build was performed.</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Off</div> |
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| <td>Refresh Workspace on startup</td> |
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| <td>If this option is turned on then the workspace resources will be synchronized |
| with their corresponding resources in the file system when the platform |
| is started. |
| <p>Note that this can potentially be a lengthy operation depending on |
| the number of resources you have in your workspace.</td> |
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| <td>Off</td> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Confirm exit when closing last window</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">If this option is turned on, then when you close the last |
| workbench window you will be prompted to confirm that you want to exit. |
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| <p CLASS="Para">You will be able to disable this option in the prompt.</p></td> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">On</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Show Tasks view when build has errors or warnings</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">If this option is turned on, then when a build results in new |
| errors or warnings the Tasks view will be activated.</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">On</div> |
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| <td>Workspace save interval (in minutes)</td> |
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| <td>This number indicates how often the state of the workspace is automatically |
| saved to disk.</td> |
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| <td>5</td> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Open mode...</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para">You can select one of the following methods for opening |
| resources:</div> |
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| <div CLASS="Para"></div> |
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| Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select it and double |
| clicking on it will open it in an editor.</li> |
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| Single click (Select on hover) - Hovering the mouse cursor over the resource |
| will select it and clicking on it once will open it in an editor.</li> |
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| <li CLASS="Item"> |
| Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting a resource with the |
| arrow keys will open it in an editor.</li> |
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| <div CLASS="Item"></div> |
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| <div CLASS="Item"></div> |
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| <p CLASS="Para">Note: Depending on which view has focus, selecting and |
| opening a resource may have different behavior. |
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| <div CLASS="Para">Double click</div> |
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| <p>Here is what the Workbench preferences page looks like: |
| <p><img src="../images/Image217_pref_wb.gif" alt="Preference dialog" border="0" width="525" height="467"></p> |
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| <P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.gif" alt="Related reference" width="159" height="27"> |
| <br><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench Window Layout</a> |
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