IDL Perspective

The IDL perspective collects a set of workbench views that make it easy and convenient to edit and manage your IDL .pro code files, run and test your code, and build and export your IDL projects.

Figure 16-1: The IDL Perspective

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Note
The IDL perspective was the default perspective in IDL 7.0; beginning with IDL 7.1, the Visualize Perspective is the default.

Views in the IDL Perspective

By default, the IDL perspective includes the following views:

When to Use the IDL Perspective

You might find the IDL perspective most useful when you are working on the following types of tasks:

For more information on these topics, see: