New perspectives

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

1.

Click on the Open Perspective button

2.

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

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

4. Observe the Help perspective is displayed.  
5. There are several other interesting things to take note of. 
  • The title of the window now indicates that we are using the Help perspective. 
  • The shortcut bar now contains two perspectives, the original Resource perspective and the new Help perspective.   The Help perspective button is pressed-in indicating that it is the current perspective.
6. 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 and editors is different for each of the perspectives. 

If we convert the Navigator to a fast view by dragging the Navigator view onto the shortcut bar, the shortcut bar will have three areas:

  1. The Open Perspective button.

  2. The list of open perspectives. In the figure below the Resource and Help 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 6 above we observed that the set of views and editors are different between the open perspectives. Similarly each perspective has its own list of fast views.