On Eclipse's Debug perspective, if I pin the Display and Expressions views on the panels, they just disappear some time after the debugging - apparently when Eclipse switches the perspectives again from Java/Java EE to Debug.
Is this really a Bug (or a Feature I didn't get it) or is it some configuration issue? Is there any directions or workaround to make it work? Pinning them again everytime I get into debug is annoying.
I've been having this issue from quite some time on different distributions of Eclipse (right now on JBoss Developer Studio 4.0.0.GA) and on different machines (Windows).
You can save a perspective. I would open debug perspective and pin Expressions and Display views to it and save it(Windows->Save Perspective as) as MyDebug .
And it would get added to the perspective's list and if you use it often you should be able to see it on the top right corner all the time.
I hope this question is appropriate for Stack Overflow; if not, I apologize. For some reason the close all functionality on my installation of eclipse stopped working. I can still close windows, but I can't close all. Neither the hot key nor the menu functionality works anymore. My theory is that it has something to do with me occasionally breaking source pages out onto other screens. Is there a way to fix this or get some sort of output out of eclipse that will provide some clues?
There are a couple of things you can try. The first step is the error log (Windows -> Show View -> Error Log).
If you can't see anything in the log, you may try to start Eclipse with java instead of javaw. Just add
-vm
...path-to-java.../java
to eclipse.ini. Maybe it prints something useful to stdout.
If that also doesn't help, try closing one window manually (for example with Ctrl+W) and then "Close All" again. Repeat until it works. That might give you a clue which window prevents Eclipse from closing everything.
If that doesn't help: You can also close windows by opening the window list (Ctrl+E). Instead of search, go down once (so the selection is in the list). You can now close windows using Delete (key repeat works but the UI lags begind).
I've noticed that once you close a window (such as the memory view) in the Eclipse CDT debugger there's no obvious way to make it re-appear. As I'm on a MacBook and still haven't mastered the darned touchpad, I tend to click things by accident and one by one, various useful windows within the CDT debug perspective are going away, apparently never to be seen again. Does anyone know how to make these things come back?
Window->Show View-> Memory View
If Memory View is not present in the list, press "Other" and type memory view. It should appear.
I often end up with lots of empty panes in Eclipse that can only be minimized but not destroyed. How do I close these?
Update:
In this screenshot you can see two minimized on the upper left and several on the right hand side. In the center are four more. They only seem to be restorable in the Debug mode.
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9900/eclipse1.png
this happened to me, too. What worked for me (based on FilmJ and douncon's comments) was to open a class file, then drag that tab over the top of the empty pane.
Select Window -> Reset Perspective. That should reset the current perspective (what you call "mode") to its' initial state, (hopefully) closing all irrelevant views.
Something seems terribly wrong with your Eclipse. Maybe you should reinstall it. It is possible that you installed a buggy plugin.
First of all, what do you mean by pane? Eclipse has:
Windows (Eclipse itself, e.g. instance)
Documents (tabs)
Views (properties, tasks, explorer, etc)
If by 'pane' you mean document editors, you have problems either with your Eclipse version or most likely one of the installed plugins.
Each View also can be closed (except maybe some project types (perspectives) of which I'm not aware). For CDT (C/C++) you can close practically everything.
I'll recommend you download latest Eclipse version with no plugins, extract it to different folder, and check if that happens again. If yes, please explain more in details (like Eclipse version, perspective you are using, any side plugins, etc).
Also a good places are Eclipse community forum, mailing list and bugz :-)
I had the same problem. For me it helped to go into the right perspective and activate the functionality that caused the window in the first place. Once I reactivated the functionality, in my case "QNX Memory Analysis perspective", I was able to close all the windows one by one.
The conclusion is you have to refill the empty windows with content and then you will be able to close them properly.
So, it's really very easy for this to happen, if you open an editor that's incompatible with the existing editor, you can often end up having to place it outside of the tab list in one of your editor panes, then you might clear or copy that, typically while trying to add that view to a tab list.
In any case, what it's done is create a new editor, and all you need to do is drag some file to that empty editor window giving it some form of context, then close it.
I had the same issue. I followed #zvikico, but instead of just resetting, I first reset and then closed all the perspectives. Please follow the following to fix the problem. It worked for me:
Window -> Perspective -> Reset perspective..
After resetting follow below:
Window -> Perspective -> Close All Perspectives
When I build my projects in FlexBuilder, I want to see any errors immediately; I don't want to have to hover or open the Problem pane every time, nor do I want to always leave it open.
Any ideas?
I do not think this is a problem.
As far as I know the Eclipse settings and there is no such.
You can use shortcut keys SHIFT+ALT+Q and press X to fast open the problem panel.