# Express Perspective

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;
- Run validation - 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.

Figure 1. Workbench view, Express perspective
Figure 2. Express pull-down menu
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