Chapter 3 Getting Started with the PowerDesigner Eclipse Plugin

The PowerDesigner Interface

This section describes the main components of the PowerDesigner interface.

When you launch the Eclipse Platform for the first time, it opens the workbench window which initially displays the Resource perspective. A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views in the workbench window.

The Resource perspective contains different views:

• The Navigator view displays a tree view of the projects and their resources
• The Editor area displays the content of the projects and resources
• The Outline view displays a content outline of the file being edited. (Except for a plain text file)
• The Tasks view lists and marks all the tasks and problems to be solved

Click the title bar of a view to make it active. (The title bar turns blue). The name of the active perspective is shown in the title bar of the window and its icon is pushed-in in the shortcut bar.

We recommend you use the PowerDesigner perspective.

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