New perspectives

There are several ways to open a new perspective within this Workbench window:

• Using the Open Perspective button on the shortcut bar.
• Choosing a perspective from the Window > Open Perspective menu. 

We will open one by using the shortcut bar button.

1. Click on the Open Perspective button . 

2. A menu appears showing the same choices as shown on the Window > Open Perspective menu. Choose Other from the menu.

   

3. In the Select Perspective dialog choose Debug and click OK. 

   

   The Debug perspective is displayed.  

4. There are several other interesting things to take note of. 

   • The title of the window now indicates that we are using the Debug perspective. 

   • The shortcut bar now contains two perspectives, the original Resource perspective and the new Debug perspective. The Debug perspective button is pressed-in indicating that it is the current perspective.
     

5. In the shortcut bar, click on the Resource perspective button. The Resource perspective is once again our current perspective. Notice that the set of views is different for each of the perspectives. 

Earlier in this tutorial we created a Navigator fast view by dragging the Navigator view onto the shortcut bar.  If we do this again we will observe that our shortcut bar now has three areas:

1. The Open Perspective button.
2. The list of open perspectives. In the figure below the Resource and Debug perspectives are open and the Resource perspective is our current perspective.
3. The list of fast views. In the figure below there is one fast view, the Navigator.  

In step 5 above we observed that the set of views are different between the open perspectives. Similarly each perspective has its own list of fast views. 

New windows

Perspectives