Eclipse - Visual Editor

I use the eclipse 3.0 and I have installed the visual editor through Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
So I believe it�s installed correct, but I�d like to know what should I do to start it. I tried to change the perspective, there ins�t the visual editor option though.
Does anybody know how to do that?
Thx

VE is not started as a different perspective but rather, as of Eclipse 3.0.2 I have installed, it will open a new perspective as you add a new "visual class" to your project.
A problem I experienced during the initial installation is that Eclipse seems not to be able to build its configuration files all at once.
The online documentation suggests, if you cannot see "Visual Editor" amongst all of the other installed plugin, to delete the following:
/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/manifests
/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.bundledata
/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.state
and restart the program. This will force Eclipse to rebuild its configuration files.
(Just to be more careful you could move them instead!).
Hope this will help.
Bye

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