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| <h1 class="Head">Perspectives</h1> |
| <p>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>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>You can use the <a class="command-link" href= |
| 'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General > Perspectives</b></a> |
| preference page to open perspectives in the same window or in a new window.</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="concepts-2.htm">Workbench</a><br> |
| <a href="concepts-6.htm">Editors</a><br> |
| <a href="concepts-5.htm">Views</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-9f.htm">Opening perspectives</a><br> |
| <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 perspective shortcuts</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9m.htm">Configuring perspective command groups</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9n.htm">Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9i.htm">Saving a user defined perspective</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-9j.htm">Resetting perspectives</a> |
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