Views

 

Opening views

Rearranging views

Closing views

 

View is a visual component within LyciaStudio used to navigate through lists and hierarchies (such as projects or resources) or display properties for the active editor.

 

Here is the full list of the views available in LyciaStudio (given in groups):

 

Other:

Cheat Sheets

 

4GL:

4gl Project

 

Ant:

Ant

 

C/C++:

C/C++ Index

C/C++ Projects

Call Hierarchy

Include Browser

Problem Details

Type Hierarchy

 

CVS:

CVS Editors

CVS Repositories

 

Database Management:

Data Source Explorer

Execution Path

SQL Results

Execution Plan

 

General:

Bookmarks

Classic Search

Console

Error Log

Internal Web Browser

Markers

Navigator

Outline

Palette

Problems

Progress

Project Explorer

Properties

Search

Tasks

Templates

 

Debug:

Breakpoints

Debug

Display

Executables

Expressions

Memory

Modules

Registers

Signals

Variables

Visualizer

GIT:

GIT Repositories

GIT Staging

GIT Reflog

GIT Tree Compare

Rebase Interactive

Package Explorer

Properties

 

Java:

Call Hierarchy

Declaration

Javadoc

JUnit

Package Explorer

Type Hierarchy

 

Java Browsing:

Members

Packages

Projects

Types

 

JavaScript:

Call Hierarchy

Declaration

Documentation

Hierarchy

Script Explorer

 

Make:

Make Target

Mylyn:

Task List

Task Repositories

Team Repositories

 

org.eclipse.e4.secondaryDataStack:

CSS Scratch pad

CSS Spy

 

Plug-in Development:

Plug-in Dependencies

Plug-in Image Browser

Plug-ins

Target Platform State

 

Report Design:

Data Explorer

Property Editor

Resource Explorer

Palette

 

Team:

History

Synchronize

 

WindowBuilder:

Palette

Structure

 

XML:

Content Model

Documentation

 

All views share these common features:

they can be active and inactive, but only one view can be active at a time,

to activate a view, you have simply to click it (= the corresponding tab in a tabbed notebook),

the title bar of the active view is highlighted,

you can maximize the view by double-clicking its title bar or by pressing the Maximize  button,

you can minimize the view by double-clicking its title bar or by pressing the Minimize  button,

all views have two menus:

title bar menu containing general manipulation options:

 

 

pull-down menu - - usually including the sorting and filtering options applied to the entire contents of the view, but not to a specific item shown in the view:

 

 

 

Opening views

 

To open the necessary view, please, follow these steps.

 

Step 1

Choose the Window menu group of the LyciaStudio menu bar:

 

 

Step 2

Go to Window Show Views Other... (four views - 4GL Project, Console, Navigator, and Project Explorer - are added to the menu and can be selected directly):

 

 

Step 3

Choose the necessary group of views in the opened window, find the necessary view, and press OK (or double-click it):

 

 

The already open views are obscured.

 

Step 4

The  view opens within LyciaStudio (usually in the bottom or right part), and you can start working with it.

 

 

 

Rearranging views

 

By default, views are opened in the bottom part of LyciaStudio below the code editor:

 

 

To change the position of the view in the LyciaStudio window, you have to:

 

Step 1

Click the title bar of the necessary view.

 

Step 2

Drag the view across the LyciaStudio window without releasing the mouse button to the area where you want to put the view.

While dragging, you can see thew drop lines which indicate where the view will be added if dropped:

 

 

Step 3

Drop the view to the selected spot:

 

 

Views can be arranged in the LyciaStudio window in several basic ways:

 

in the default stack (below the code editor)

 

 

one by one to the right from the code editor

 

 

in a stack to the right from the code editor

 

 

one under the other to the right from the code editor

 

 

 

In the schemes above,

, , and are views,

are the Project Explorer and code editor

 

You can also move a view to a separate window:

 

 

 

You can see how views are rearranged in a short video below:

 

 

Press Rewind to watch the video once more.

 

Closing views

 

You can close any view from its context menu:

 

 

 

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