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| Perspectives</H1> |
| <p CLASS="Para" Label="Type">Each Workbench window contains one or more |
| perspectives. A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views |
| in the Workbench window. Within the window, each perspective shares the same set |
| of editors. Each perspective provides a set of functionality aimed |
| at accomplishing a specific type of task or works with specific types of |
| resources. For example, the Java perspective combines views that you would |
| commonly use while editing Java source files, while the Debug perspective |
| contains the views that you would use while debugging Java programs. As you work |
| in the Workbench, you will probably switch perspectives frequently.</p> |
| <P CLASS="Para" Label=Type>Perspectives control what appears in certain menus |
| and toolbars. They define visible <i> action sets</i>, which you |
| can change to customize a perspective. You can save a perspective that you |
| build in this manner, making your own custom perspective that you can open again |
| later. </p> |
| <P CLASS="Para" Label=Type>You can use the |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'> |
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| <b>General > Perspectives</b></a> |
| preference page to open perspectives |
| in the same window or in a new window.</p> |
| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts." ><br> |
| <a href="concepts-2.htm">Workbench</a><br> |
| <a href="concepts-6.htm">Editors</a><br> |
| <a href="concepts-5.htm">Views</a></p> |
| <P CLASS="Para" Label=Type><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><a href="../tasks/tasks-9f.htm"><br> |
| Opening perspectives<br> |
| </a><a href="../tasks/tasks-3.htm">Opening views</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-24.htm">Changing where perspectives open<br></a> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-31.htm">Specifying the default perspective</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-28.htm">Switching between perspectives</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9k.htm">Configuring perspectives</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9i.htm">Saving a user defined perspective</a><a href="../tasks/tasks-9j.htm"><br> |
| Resetting perspectives</a></p> |
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