Tour of the UI

Eclipse and the C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) provides a rich collection of views, editors, wizards and preference windows for performing C++ development. The Symbian OS plug-ins for Eclipse extend this user interface so that you can perform the tasks involved in Symbian OS development from the Eclipse workbench, instead of needing to use the Symbian OS command-line toolchain.

When you work with a Symbian OS C++ project, the workbench uses the Carbide C/C++ perspective, which will look something like this:

For more information on the standard CDT views, refer to the C/C++ Development Toolkit documentation.

The Symbian OS plug-ins also add new wizards and editors. You can use these to: