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| <h1 CLASS="Head">General</h1> |
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| <div CLASS="Intro">General settings for the Workbench. The term <i>Workbench</i> refers to the desktop development |
| environment.</div> |
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| <p>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.</p> |
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| <p CLASS="Para">The following preferences can be changed on the |
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| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workbench)")'> |
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| <strong>General</strong></a> |
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| preference page. </p> |
| <table width="75%" border="1"> |
| <tr> |
| <td><strong>Option</strong></td> |
| <td><strong>Description</strong></td> |
| <td><strong>Default</strong></td> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Always run in background</td> |
| <td>Turn this option on to perform long running operations in the background |
| without blocking you from doing other work.<br></td> |
| <td>Off<br></td> |
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| <td>Keep next/previous part dialog open </td> |
| <td>If this option is turned on then the editor and view cycle dialogs will |
| remain open when their activation key is let go. Normally the dialog closes |
| as soon as the key combination is release.</td> |
| <td>Off </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Show Heap Status</td> |
| <td>Turn this option on to display an indicator |
| showing information about current Java heap usage.<br></td> |
| <td>Off<br></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td>Workbench save interval</td> |
| <td>The field indicates how often the state of the workbench like perspective layouts and open editors is automatically saved to disk. |
| Set to 0 to disable.<br></td> |
| <td>5<br></td> |
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| <td>Open mode...</td> |
| <td><div CLASS="Para">You can select one of the following methods for opening |
| resources:</div> |
| <div CLASS="Para"></div> |
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| <li CLASS="Item"> Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select |
| it and double clicking on it will open it in an editor.</li> |
| <li CLASS="Item"> 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> |
| <li CLASS="Item"> Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting |
| a resource with the arrow keys will open it in an editor. |
| <p CLASS="Para"><strong>Note:</strong> Depending on which view has focus, |
| selecting and opening a resource may have different behavior. </p></li> |
| </ul></td> |
| <td>Double click</td> |
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| <p>Here is what the General preferences page looks like:</p> |
| <p><img src="../images/Image217_pref_wb.png" alt="Preference dialog" ></p> |
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| <P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference" > |
| <br><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench Window Layout</a> |
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