Perspectives available to C/C++ developers in SDK

A perspective is a layout of views (development tools) in the Workbench window. Each type of perspective is a combination of views, menus, and toolbars that enable you to perform a particular task. For example, the C/C++ Perspective has views that are organized to help you develop C/C++ programs, and the Debug Perspective has views that enable you to debug those programs.

SDK contributes the following additional perspectives to the workbench.

C/C++ Perspective views

The C/C++ Perspective provides a collection of views to develop C and C++ projects. By default, it consists of an editor area and the following views:

SDK Projects (tree view of hardware and software projects)
C/C++ Projects (the file navigator for C/C++ resources)
Navigator (the file navigator for all Eclipse resources)
Console
Properties
Tasks
Make Targets
Outline
Search

Debug Perspective views

This perspective provides a collection of view for debugging your C or /C++ program. By default, it includes an editor area and the following views:

Debug
Variables
Breakpoints
Expressions
Registers
Memory
Outline
Console
Tasks

Xilinx Profiler Perspective views

This perspective provides a collection of views to visualize the statistics for the profiled Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file. The perspective is composed of the following views:

C/C++ Projects Management view
C/C++ Editor view (default location)
C/C++ Source Code Outline view

The tabbed sections at the bottom of the perspective contain the following views, which are described further in the next sections.

3D Bar Chart — Number of Calls
3D Pie Chart — Percentage of Time Spent
Time Spent in Function (Self Time)
Call Table
Flat Profile
Console Window (to control the ELF file running on the embedded target)

Other perspectives

In addition to the perspectives listed here and the Resource Perspective (which opens when Eclipse starts), Eclipse also has perspectives that are tuned to other types of development:

Plug-in Development
CVS Repository Exploring

For more information, in the Help navigator, select Workbench User Guide > Concepts > Perspectives.