Is there any setting somewhere in Eclipse IDE, to automatically popup/show progress view, when some operation in progress ?
Go to Window > Preferences > General. In the General tab, uncheck the checkbox that says 'Always run in background'.
Once you do this, most operations will create a popup window showing progress of the operation, and you can also choose to push it to background if you wish to continue some other task. There is also a checkbox in the popup window which says 'Always run in background'. Never check that if you like seeing the popup window. If you do happen to check it by mistake, follow the above steps to restore the setting to your preference.
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When switching to a line with user input, the variable that should store it is not initialized in the "variables" tab, which is probably logical, but I don't understand why.How do I simulate user input in debug mode?
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Make sure Console tab is enabled for the debugger tool window layout. If you can't see it, try restoring the default layout:
You can also Drag & Drop the console tab to the bottom of the tool window so that it's visible at the same time:
Focus the Console tab and type what you need.
Is it possible to ignore an SWT dialog's modality when it is raised?
The issue is that I have an Eclipse RCP application which can be displayed on multiple (8+ screens) at any given time; there can be a single modal dialog raised somewhere on any of the screens (i.e. a user clicks on the Help->About Eclipse page, which displays a modal dialog) which blocks/freezes the rest of the screens until the user finds it and closes it. This is quite problematic as it can be hidden somewhere among a mess of other GUIs.
Ideally it should be possible to interact with the rest of the GUI dialogs even though there is a modal dialog open somewhere. Is this possible?
The cleanest solution is to set the dialog to be non modal (of course) either when setting its style or by invoking the setBlockOnOpen(false); method on the configureShell(...). Unfortunately this is not an option, as the application uses built in eclipse plugins, which are set to modal by default. Is there a way to set it non blocking after it has been opened?
You can also force the modal dialog into the viewport via shell.forceActive(), however this is an ugly solution as it also brings the root swt window into view. If there is a way to just bring forward the modal dialog without its parent, this would be an ok solution.
SWT.shell is quite limited, but maybe there is some other way to mitigate this issue?
I have downloaded Netbeans 8.1 on OSX and when I try to install Darcula theme it is not possible. I press install and the way IDE responds is like situation when user dialogue pops out which locks the application until user acts upon the dialogue. However this dialogue is not visible! The way I know it is there is because when I press ESC button, IDE is responsive back again.
The same happens when I go to preferences and click "Import" button. Application locks itself but I don't see any dialogue that I can do something about.
This happens also on Eclipse. As you can see in a picture below after I clicked "Add libraries", tab "Libraries" turned from blue to gray because some unvisible window has opened and rest of IDE is unresponsive until I press "ESC"(which usually closes the modal window).
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I just found out that this happens when IDE is maximized. So I would like to know if I can fix it somehow that I don't have to un-maximize IDE everytime editor shows me some dialog.
For Eclipse this has been reported as bug 478975 but as yet there is no fix.
In IntelliJ every time I make a change in code and I run the app afterwards, "run window" is automatically popped up. Is there any way to disable this annoying behaviour or how to make it less distracting?
I finally could solve this one. At least it worked for me. At the bottom of "Run/Debug configurations" window and in "Before launch" part, uncheck "Activate tool window" check box.
There is currently no solution to do this permanently. However, there is a workaround to prevent it from popping up. Try this:
After the first time the window pops-up simply resize it all the way to the bottom (i.e. grab the TOP and drag down until the window disappears). This will prevent it from popping up again until you manually click one of the buttons to open any window in the same area (i.e. Run, TODO, Android, Terminal, Messages, (and Find Results) - or whatever you have in that same area if you've customized it).
To keep it from popping up, never click the hide button on any of these windows but rather use the same "drag from top to bottom" to hide them (the effect is the same).
This is annoying, to say the least, but once you get used to it it works fine and is much less annoying than dealing with that blasted Run popup window :)
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I should mention that this is completely safe to do as the windows are only hidden when you do this, and clicking the window's button at the bottom will show it in its original size - so nothing goes missing or breaks using this method :-)
These are called Tool Windows. Right-click the tool window, it pops up a menu, the last option of which is 'Hide'.
Alternatively,
You can install the plugin ToolWindow Manager to show/hide the Tool Window of your choice.
Either
1. Set the run window to be in either split and then shrink it down to be as small as possible.
2. Set the windows to be in floating mode and then shrink it down and move it somewhere less distracting.
disabling checkboxes in "Window | Background tasks solved my problem.
It is soooo annoying oO I just dragged the windows to an other screen and/or set their height to a minimum.. Not "best practise" but it is better than nothing -.-
In intellij go to main menu windows->active tool window->disable floating mode option there.
thanks
For those who are facing this issue with "Run" window they can follow below instruction
From dropdown select "Edit Configuration":
Open Logs tab:
Uncheck these 2 checkboxes:
I have found a solution!!!!
There old plugin for Intellij IDE called "Hide Tool Window Ex".
It hides any tool windows that being opened just after you click in editor again.
(plugin page)
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I've looked over Eclipse many many times, and cannot find this button! I had to use this and deal with this problem for 2 weeks now; it's getting really really annoying having to re-open the file cause i wanted to find the declaration line.
Please please please help.
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Customize perspective:
Click Window ยป Customize Perspective...
Expand Editor representation
Click Show source of selected element only
Moritz Petersen's answer will be helpful if you completely disabled the capability and want to get it back, but the option itself, if available, is under:
Window -> Preferences
And then:
Java -> Editor -> [ ] Only show the selected Java element
Personal tip: I bind this option to a keyboard shortcut so I can enable and disable it on demand. Very practical to focus on a task but indeed a bit annoying when you want to go back to a full-class view.
Maybe there is a bug in Eclipse.
I got the "Show Selected Element Only"- button, when I deselected all Editor Presentation buttons in the "Tool Bar Visibility" tab from the "Customize Perspective..."-menue. --> OK
After that I selected the button again.