1.11.4 Switching between perspectives

Depending on the task in hand, it can be useful to have different configurations or views in CodeBlocks and to save these configurations/views. By default, the settings (e. g. show/hide symbol bars, layout, etc.) are stored in the default.conf configuration file. By using the command line option --personality=ask during the start of CodeBlocks, different settings can be selected. Apart from this global setting, a situation might occur where you wish to switch between different views of windows and symbol bars during a session. Editing files and debugging projects are two typical examples for such situations. CodeBlocks offers a mechanism for storing and selecting different perspectives to prevent the user from frequently having to open and close windows and symbol bars manually. To save a perspective, select the menu ’View’ /’Perspectives’ /’Save current’ and enter a name at <name>. The command ’Settings’ /’Editor’ /’Keyboard shortcuts’ /’View’ /’Perspectives’ /’<name>’ allows a keyboard shortcut to be defined for this process. This mechanism makes it possible to switch between different views by simply using hot keys.