Project Explorer View

The Project Explorer view provides a hierarchical view of the resources in the IDL Workbench. From here, you can open files for editing or select resources for operations such as exporting.

Right-click on any resource in the Project Explorer view to open a pop-up menu that allows you to perform operations such as copying, moving, creating new resources, comparing resources with each other, or performing team operations. To see a description of what a menu item does, select the menu item and press the context-sensitive help key (for example, F1 in Microsoft Windows).

By default, the Project Explorer view is included in the IDL perspective. To add it to the IDL perspective, select Window → Show View → Project Explorer. To add the Project Explorer view to the Debug perspective:

Select Window → Show View → Other.

The Show View dialog displays.

Select General → Project Explorer.

Click OK.

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Project Explorer view contains the following buttons:


Toolbar Button	Description
Collapse All	Collapses the tree expansion state of all resources in the view.
Link with Editor	Links file selection in the Project Explorer view to the active editor. When this option is selected, selecting an editor tab selects the source file in the Project Explorer tree (and vice versa).
Menu	Provides menu items that allow you to sort or filter the contents of the Project Explorer view, as well as select a working set.
Minimize	Minimizes the view in the perspective.
Maximize	Maximizes the view in the perspective.

Icons

The following icons can appear in the Project Explorer view.

Icon

Description

Project

Folder

IDL .pro file

File (generic)