How to Change to the ADORA
Perspective
The ADORA perspective is an
Eclipse perspective showing all the elements which are specific for the
ADORA editor. The ADORA perspective contains as shown in Fig. 3:
- The ADORA Editor
canvas and the tool palette.
- A resource navigator for
opening ADORA
models.
- A properties dialog for
changing properties of the model element
- An outline which contains
the model decomposition tree reflecting the decomposition hierarchy of
the model.
Defaultly the Eclipse IDE is in
the Java perspective. To
change to the ADORA
perspective, open the
menu item Other in the Perspective Selection Dialog of
Eclipse as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig.
1: Opening the perspective chooser.
The perspective chooser shows a number of different Eclipse
perspectives. Select the ADORA perspective as shown in Fig. 2 and
press OK.

Fig. 2: The Perspective Selection Dialog of
Eclipse.
Finally, the Eclipse IDE shows the ADORA perspective as shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 3: The opened ADORA perspective.