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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By : Thomas Deuling
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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By: Thomas Deuling

Overview of this book

<p>Aptana Studio 3 is a powerful web development IDE based on the Eclipse platform and provides many innovative technologies and features for developing effective, modern hi-standard web-applications. Aptana has been around since 2008 and it provides language support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, and many others by using plugins.<br /><br />"Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide" is packed with the author’s experience of several years developing with Aptana Studio. It's not just a powerful guide, it's a practical, hands-on introduction to Aptana Studio as a whole. If you want to harness Aptana Studio to enhance your web-development productivity, then read this book.<br /><br />You will start by setting up your own installation of Aptana Studio, and will be guided step-by-step through the various stages of developing with Aptana Studio.<br /><br />You will learn how to manage all your work in workspaces and projects, and how you can optimize your projects depending on the nature of the project.<br /><br />In addition, you will be taught how to work on remote servers or manage your source code with Git and SVN.<br /><br />Finally, you will have a fully configured IDE and be equipped with the knowledge about how to work and manage large web-projects.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – arranging views


Moving a view to another area of the Perspective can be done in different ways. The easiest and fastest way is to do it simply via dragging-and-dropping.

  1. Move the mouse over the tab of a view and begin a drag action by pressing the left mouse button and holding it.

  2. While you are dragging the View in different areas of the Aptana Studio window, pay attention to the mouse cursor. The cursor will be changed to an arrow, in the region where the View is attached, when you drop the View at the current position.

  3. Release the left mouse button in order to drop the View on the current position.

Another option to move a view is to do it with the help of the context menu.

  1. Make a right-click on the tab and the context menu appears.

  2. Go to Move | View to move just the tab to a new area.

  3. If you want to move the complete tab group at once, go to Move | Tab Group.

  4. After selecting the Action view or Tab Group view, the cursor changes to the icon that helps you to place the View.

  5. If...