Express perspective provides Express-specific menu items, tool bar
buttons and useful views (see Figure 1):
Express pull-down menu on the main Eclipse menu bar (see Figure 2):
New Express Project -
create new Express project;
New Express File -
create new Express file with .exp
extension;
Compile Express -
compile the Express files in a project;
Validate against Express -
validate instances in a STEP (.p21)
file;
Compile Express File -
compile only the selected Express file (available only when Express
file is selected).
Specific buttons on the Eclipse tool bar:
- create new Express
project;
- create new Express file
with .exp
extension;
- compile the Express files
in a project;
- validate instances in a STEP (.p21)
file;
- compile the current
Express file to check for errors only.
Note: this button
is presented separately. It is enabled only after an Express file is
opened in the Editor and the
panel is activated.
EXPRESS Editor
- provides possibility to write and edit Express-schemas (.exg
files), highlights errors after compiling.
Navigator panel - the
list of files, presented in the selected workspace.
Console panel - the
application log details and errors, which occur while compiling Express
files.