Enabling EGL capabilities

In order to access EGL functionality, the EGL capabilities must be enabled. The following EGL capabilities are available:

EGL Development

Consists of all functionality related to developing and debugging EGL applications.

VisualAge Generator Migration to EGL

Consists of all functionality related to migrating existing VisualAge Generator code to EGL code.

To enable EGL capabilities, do as follows:

  1. Click Window > Preferences.

  2. When a list of preferences is displayed, expand Workbench, then click Capabilities. The Capabilities pane is displayed.

  3. If you would like to receive a prompt when a feature is first used that requires an enabled capability, select the check box for Prompt when enabling capabilities.

  4. Using the scroll bar on the Capabilities list, scroll up until the EGL option is in view.

  5. To enable both the EGL Development capability and the VisualAge Generator capability, select the check box for EGL Developer; otherwise, select the check box for the desired capability.

  6. To set the list of enabled capabilities back to its state at product install time, click the Restore Defaults button.

  7. To save your changes, click Apply, then click OK.

Note: Enabling EGL capabilities will automatically enable any other capabilities that are required to develop and debug EGL applications.

Related tasks
Setting EGL preferences