## Carbide.c++ perspective

The Carbide C/C++ perspective is a set of tools and layout of views provided for Symbian OS development. This perspective is designed to work with Symbian OS C++ projects. The commonly used views include:

- Project Explorer view - displays C/C++ projects located in the current workspace
- Symbian Project Navigator view - shows all files that belong to the current build configuration
- Editor view - one or more source code editor windows
- Carbide Portals editor - provides Carbide news, release information, additional extensions, and support options
- Outline view - displays an outline of a structured C/C++ file that is currently open in the editor view
- Problems view - displays build errors
- Console view - shows the output of a process and allows you to provide keyboard input to a process
- Executables view - provides a dynamic list of executables and their related source files
- Remote Connections view – use to monitor, create, edit, or remove common connection settings

Figure 1 - Carbide C/C++ perspective

NOTE Click the icon to show additional options that may not be visible in the perspective view.

For more information on perspectives see Workbench User Guide > Concepts > Perspectives, and for views see C/C++ Development User Guide > Reference > C/C++ Views and Editors.

For more details on the Symbian OS Build Configurations, see Active Configurations.

##### Related references

- Debug Perspective
- Project Explorer view
- Symbian Project Navigator view