Eclipse Window Description

Eclipse Workbench

First, let's take a look at the Eclipse Workbench user interface and its various components.

The Workbench is a collection of multiple windows. Each window contains a menu bar, toolbar, shortcut bar, and one or more perspectives.

A perspective is a visual container that includes a series of views and content editors.

Views are entirely within a specific perspective and cannot be shared, while any open content editor can be shared across perspectives.

If two or more perspectives open the same view, they share the same instance of that view, although the layout of the view may differ between perspectives.

Editors and views cannot be shared between different Workbench windows.

A perspective is like a page in a book. It exists within a window and coexists with other perspectives, and like a page in a book, you can only see one perspective at a time.

The main menu bar of the Workbench typically includes top-level menus such as File, Edit, Navigate, Project, Window, and Help.

Other top-level menus are located between the Edit and Project menus and are often context-sensitive, including the current active perspective, the foremost editor, and the active view.

In the File menu, you can find a New submenu that includes menu items for creating Projects, Folders, and Files.

The File menu also contains Import and Export menu items for importing files into the Workbench and exporting them.

In the Edit menu, you can find commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. These commands are called global commands and act on the active part.

That is, if the Delete command is used when the Navigator is active, the actual operation is performed by the Navigator.

In the Project menu, you can find commands related to projects, such as Open Project, Close Project, and Rebuild Project.

In the Run menu, you can see commands related to running and debugging application code, as well as launching external tools like Ant scripts.

In the Window menu, you can find the Open Perspective submenu to open different perspectives based on your development tasks.

You can also see the Perspective Layout Management menu bar. The Show View submenu is used to add views to the current Workbench window.

Additionally, you can modify the Workbench's functional preferences configuration through the Preferences menu item.

If you are a plugin developer, you can provide new views, editors, wizards, menus, and tool items for the platform. These are defined using XML, and once registered, they can be seamlessly integrated with existing components in the platform.

Eclipse Multiple Windows

Eclipse can open multiple windows simultaneously. To open multiple windows, select: Window -> New Window from the menu bar.

You can switch between multiple windows using Alt + Tab.