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| Window menu</H1> |
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| This menu allows you to display, hide, and otherwise manipulate the various views, perspectives, and actions in the Workbench. |
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| New Window</h2> |
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| This command opens a new Workbench window with the same perspective as the current perspective.</P> |
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| Open Perspective</h2> |
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| This command opens a new perspective in this Workbench window. |
| This preference can be changed in the <b>Window > Preferences > Workbench > Perspectives</b> |
| page. All of the perspectives that are open within the Workbench window are |
| shown on the shortcut bar.</P> |
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| The perspectives you will likely want to open are |
| listed first. This list is dependent on the current perspective. From the <b>Other...</b> submenu you can open any perspective.</P> |
| <P CLASS="Para"><img src="../images/Image207_persp_sel.gif" alt="Select Perspective dialog" border="0" width="245" height="319"></P> |
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| Show View</h2> |
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| This command displays the selected view in the |
| current perspective. You can configure how views are opened in the <b>Window > |
| Preferences > Workbench > Perspectives page</b>. Views you are likely to want to open are listed |
| first. This list is dependent on the current perspective. From the <b>Other...</b> submenu you can open any view. The views |
| are sorted into categories in the Show View dialog.</P> |
| <P CLASS="Para"><img src="../images/Image208_view_sel.gif" alt="Show View Dialog" border="0" width="294" height="420"></P> |
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| Show/Hide Editors</h2> |
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| This command can be toggled to show or hide the editor area in the |
| active perspective.</P> |
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| Lock the Toolbars</h2> |
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| This command toggles whether or not the Workbench tool bar can be manually reorganized.</P> |
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| Customize Perspective</h2> |
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| Each perspective includes a predefined set of actions that are accessible from the menu bar and Workbench toolbar. |
| Related actions are grouped into action sets. This command allows you to |
| customize the current perspective by showing or hiding various action sets. The |
| first three (<b>File > New</b>, <b>Window > Open Perspective</b>, <b>Window > Show View</b>) control which actions appear |
| as top level items in their respective menus. The last category (<b>Other</b>) controls |
| which action sets are visible in the perspective. </P> |
| <P CLASS="Para"><img src="../images/Image258_perps_custom.gif" alt="Customize Perspective Dialog" border="0" width="460" height="474"> |
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| Save Perspective As</h2> |
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| This command allows you to save the current perspective, |
| creating your own custom perspective. You can open more perspectives of |
| this type using the <b>Window > Open Perspective > Other</b> menu item once you have |
| saved a perspective. </P> |
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| <img src="../images/Image206_persp_saveas.gif" alt="Save Perspective As dialog" border="0" width="273" height="409"></P> |
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| Reset Perspective</h2> |
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| This command changes the layout of the current perspective to its original |
| configuration.</P> |
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| Close Perspective</h2> |
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| This command closes the active perspective.</P> |
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| Close All Perspectives</h2> |
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| This command closes all open perspectives in the |
| Workbench window.</P> |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts</h2> |
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| This submenu contains shortcut keys for navigating between the views, perspectives, and editors in the Workbench window.</P> |
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| <b>Show System Menu</b>: Shows the menu that is used for resizing, closing or pinning the current view or editor.</LI> |
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| <b>Show View Menu</b>: Shows the drop down menu that is available in the toolbar of the active view.</LI> |
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| <b>Activate Editor</b>: Makes the current editor active.</LI> |
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| <b>Next Editor</b>: Activates the next open editor in the list of most recently used editors.</LI> |
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| <b>Previous Editor</b>: Activates the previous open editor in the list of most recently used editors.</LI> |
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| <b>Next View</b>: Activates the next open view in the list of most recently used views.</LI> |
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| <b>Previous View</b>: Activates the previous open editor in the list of most recently used editors.</LI> |
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| <b>Next Perspective</b>: Activates the next open perspective in the list of most recently used perspectives.</LI> |
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| <b>Previous Perspective</b>: Activates the previous open perspective in the list of most recently used perspectives.</LI> |
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| Switch to Editor</h2> |
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| Opens a dialog that allows you to manage all editors that are open, and rapidly switch to other open editors. Here is |
| what the switch editors dialog looks like:</P> |
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| <img src="../images/Image60_switch_editor.gif" alt="Switch Editor dialog" border="0" width="607" height="436"></P> |
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| The following actions are available from the switch editors dialog:</P> |
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| <b>Switch to Editor</b>: By selecting an editor from the list and hitting OK, that editor will be made active. |
| If the chosen editor is in a different window or perspective, that window and perspective will be made active</LI> |
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| <b>Close Selected Editors</b>: Closes all editors selected in the list.</LI> |
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| <b>Save Selected Editors</b>: Saves the contents of all editors selected in the list.</LI> |
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| <b>Select Clean Editors</b>: Selects the editors in the list that have not been modified since their last save.</LI> |
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| <b>Invert Selection</b>: Reverses the selection in the list of editors.</LI> |
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| Preferences</h2> |
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| This command allows you to indicate your preferences for using the Workbench. There |
| are a wide variety of preferences for configuring the appearance of the Workbench and its views, |
| and for customizing the behavior of all tools that are installed in the Workbench. |
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