<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Perspectives available to C/C++ developers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../help.css"> </head> <body> <h1>Perspectives available to C/C++ developers</h1> <p>A perspective is a layout of <a href="cdt_c_views.htm">views</a> (development tools) in the Workbench window. Each type of perspective is a combination of views, menus, and toolbars that enable you to perform a particular task. For example, the C/C++ perspective has views that are organized to help you develop C/C++ programs; the <b>Debug</b> perspective has views that enable you to debug those programs. </p> <div class="note"> <b>Selecting / Opening Views:</b> <ul> <li>You can add views to a perspective. From the menu bar choose <b>Window > Show View > Other</b> and select a new view from the <b>Show View</b> dialog.</li> <li>To reset the current perspective to its original layout, from the menu bar choose <b>Window > Reset Perspective</b>.</li> </ul> </div> <p>The C/C++ development tools contribute the following perspectives to the workbench: </p> <h3>C/C++ perspective views</h3> <p>This perspective is tuned for working with C/C++ projects. By default it consists of an editor area and the following views: </p> <ul> <li>C/C++ Projects (the file navigator for C/C++ resources)</li> <li>Navigator (the file navigator for all Eclipse resources)</li> <li>Console</li> <li>Properties</li> <li>Tasks</li> <li>Make Targets</li> <li>Outline</li> <li>Search</li> </ul> <h3>Debug perspective views</h3> <p>This perspective is tuned for debugging your C/C++ program. By default it includes an editor area and the following views: </p> <ul> <li>Debug</li> <li>Variables</li> <li>Breakpoints</li> <li>Expressions</li> <li>Registers</li> <li>Memory</li> <li>Display (for use with JDT only)</li> <li>Outline</li> <li>Console</li> <li>Tasks</li> </ul> <h3>Other Perspectives</h3> <p>In addition to the perspectives named above and the <span class="guilabel">Resource</span> perspective (which you see when you first start Eclipse), Eclipse also has perspectives that are tuned to other types of development: </p> <ul> <li>Java</li> <li>Java Browsing</li> <li>Plug-in Development.</li> <li>CVS Repository Exploring</li> </ul> <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngconcepts.gif" ALT="Related concepts" width="143" height="21"> <br><a href="cdt_c_views.htm">Views in the C/C++ perspective</a> <br><a href="cdt_o_dbg_concepts.htm">Debug Concepts</a> </p> <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngtasks.gif" ALT="Related tasks" width="143" height="21"> <br><a href="../tasks/cdt_t_add_brkpnts.htm">Adding breakpoints</a> </p> <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngref.gif" ALT="Related reference" width="143" height="21"> <br><a href="../reference/cdt_u_console_view.htm">Console view</a> </p> <p> <img src="../images/rh03_04.gif" ALT="Red Hat Copyright Statement"><br> <img src="../images/ng00_04a.gif" ALT=" IBM Copyright Statement" > </p> </body> </html>