Perspectives

On the Perspectives preference page, you can manage the various perspectives defined in the Workbench.  

Option

Description

Default

Open a new perspective

Use this option to set what happens when you open a new perspective. Is the perspective opened within the current Workbench window or is it opened in a new window.

In the same window

Open a new view

Use this option to specify what happens when a new view is opened. It is either opened to its default position within the current perspective or it is opened as a fast view and docked to the side of the current perspective.

Within the perspective

New project options

Use this option to specify the perspective behaviour when a new project is created. You can set it to switch the current perspective to be the one associated with the project type and open the perspective in the same Workbench window as the current one, switch the perspective and open it in a new Workbench window, or not to switch perspectives at all.

Open perspective in the same window

Available Perspectives Options:

Option

Description

Default

Make Default

Sets the selected perspective as the default perspective.

Resource

Reset

Resets the perspective definition to the default configuration.

n/a

Delete

Deletes the selected perspective. This option is only applicable to user-defined perspectives (built-in perspectives can not be deleted).

n/a

 

 Here is what the Perspectives preferences page looks like: 

Perspectives Preference Page

Related reference
Perspectives

 
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