Finding my way around the Force.com Eclipse IDE

I find that it's easy to accidentally close tabs and views in Eclipse, or send them to Fast View. The bottom right panel in particular seems to have a high mistake rate for me.

Views are easy to bring back if they were accidentally closed:

Force.com views - e.g. Window: Show View: Problems
Standard Eclipse views used by the Force.com perspective - e.g. Window: Show View: Other: Progress

If the views aren't visible after using Show View then they have probably ended up in Fast View.


Fast view is in the bottom left corner. In the image shown there are two icons: the Fast View menu and the Progress view.

To rescue the Progress view, click it and it will be displayed on top of the Project Explorer. Then move the view back to its rightful place.

To rescue other views, select the view you want from the Fast View menu and move it.

Don't select views in the Fast View menu that are already in the right place - they will disappear into Fast View.