I have a set of breakpoints which I used for debugging one issue. When I want to debug something else, these breakpoints are annoying, so I need to disable/delete them. However, I feel that I might want to be able to recreate the first set of breakpoints later.
Is it possible to save all currently active breakpoints so that you can switch between different sets of breakpoints with just one operation?
If I have 30 breakpoints, it would be very tedious to recreate/reenable them all manually.
In Eclipse (debug perspective -> breakpoints) select all the breakpoints, right click, export breakpoints!
You can use breakpoint working sets - see eclipse help.
If you can't find the Breakpoints tab, open it on: Window > Show View > Breakpoints.
Then, as said before: Ctrl+A to select all breakpoints > right click > Export Breakpoints....
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I am not sure if this is a bug, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling eclipse but seems like the problem has been saved in cache somewhere. Whenever I do a file search or C/C++ search with eclipse (either by clicking on the icon, or by typing ctrl+H), I do not see a search window pop up with results.
Same thing when I right click on a term and look for references or declarations in the workspace/project. I only see the occurrences Highlighted in the files, but that means I would need to manually check each file, which is just not doable. I also tried resetting the perspective, no luck!
Results in highlights, but no result window on the right side like there normally is:
I do not understand why this happens, I wonder if I disabled the search windows with a shortcut, this already happened with disabling the breakpoints and it took me a while to figure it out. Is there a way to toggle the appearance of the window? And if it really is a bug, how can I destroy all of the program's cache, because uninstalling by itself didn't work, there was a few settings that remained with the fresh installation.
Thanks!
There is a setting in the Search Preferences:
Window->Preferences --> General->Search
Then the search view should open up after starting the search.
When I start Eclipse C++ debugger, it starts from the first line side main(), and I have to step line-by-line until the end. How can I have it skip until the first breakpoint like Visual Studio? What's the point of having breakpoints if it starts from the beginning like this?
I wish to debug an event-based program, what's the good practice for that? I want it to start debugging when the event is raised. Thank you so much.
Make sure you are in the C++ perspective, then go to menu Run > Debug Configurations. Make sure your application is chosen in the left pane, press the Debugger tab, and uncheck Stop on startup at checkbox.
I tried to use the debugger in Eclipse, but when I hit my
breakpoints, the Eclipse "Debug Current Instruction Pointer" is often
pointing at the wrong source line.I really want to remove "Debug Current Instruction Pointer". "Project -> Clean..." doesn't seem to help, nor does
restarting Eclipse, nor does rebooting.
The "Debug Current Instruction Pointer" is the position where you paused debugging last time. You can simply resolve it by following the below two steps
Go to the "Debug" preference/panel
Then click on the red square button to terminate the debugging you were executing last time or press Ctrl+F2 (Windows)
Now, just debug the program again. The execution will be starting from the "Toggle Breakpoint".
Note: You can delete the Toggle Breakpoint by double click on the line number and redefine the new according to your requirements by right click on targeted line number and select "Toggle BreakPoint" or press Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows)
Go to the debug view (as your current debug session is running) and complete or terminate current debugging session. this way you will get rid of "Debug Current Instruction Pointer"
What helped me was remove all breakpoints - right-click, RemoveAll.
sometimes breakpoints remain in eclipse list even after we remove them by clicking over them, to remove
Show Breakpoints view by navigating menu
Window>>Show View>>Other>> Select Debug>>Breakpoints
In Breakpoints view, uncheck unnecessary breakpoints
To prevent this pointer from ever being displayed in the first place, go to
Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Annotations ->
select Debug Current Instruction Pointer -> uncheck "Vertical ruler"
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"Debug Current Insturction Pointer" isn't something you would want to remove since it is not something that is set in any way, ist just a pointer to the current instruction where the debugger has paused your application. You can see that easily if you just step through your application and see how the "Debug Current Insturction Pointer" is moving along.
If you think it is pointing at the wrong source-line there are two reasons I can think of right now:
There are some "old" breakpoints left from earlier debug-sessions. You should see the breakpoint-marker and be able to remove it. If you want to get rid of all existing breakpoints just go to the breakpoints-view and remove them all using the double-X-icon.
The source-file shown in the debug-window doesn't match the class file that is currently running. This is most likely to happen in some imported libraries and not in your own project's code, but if it still does happen a clean/rebuild should take care of the problem.
You need to get out of the current debug session. Go to the debug console and end the current session by hitting the red square button.
This should remove all the debug current instruction pointers.
Check the arguments written in Run Configuration, because they can be wrong.
To reach Run Configuration, right click the project's main class -> Run As -> Run Configurations -> Java Application on menu -> Arguments. In the text Area write your arguments and try to debug again.
I am new to eclipse and I am unable to view all the breakpoints that I have placed. I even tried Window --> Show View --> Breakpoints but that is also not working.
As other users have suggested, to view all breakpoints : Window-> Show View -> Breakpoints.
To delete them, there are three ways:
select the breakpoint & click on the cross button displayed in the same view.
select the breakpoint, right click & select remove. (You can also temporarily disable it & remove all the breakpoints from this menu.)
Go to the breakpoint in your file & double-click it.
Here is what worked for me, just today, Run-> Remove All Breakpoints
On the top-right corner, there is a search bar(Quick Access).
You can search for breakpoints there and select breakpoints from options.
All the breakpoints will be listed down.
You can remove all breakpoints by following below steps. Go to
Run -> Remove All Breakpoints.
This will remove all breakpoints.
Go to Windows->Show View->(Others)->(Debug)->Breakpoints->unchecked all debug points
and unchecked all debug points which you have checked, start in debug mode again. It worked for me.
For Oxygen.3a I use:
Window > Perspective > Open perspective > debug, and it shows the breakpoints window by default.
Then ALT + SHIFT + Q, B toggles the window (or Window > Show view > Breakpoints)
For Windows: Press Alt + Shift + Q, B
On Bottom there are many tabs like console ,Development Mode etc like wise
Break Point also there you find all toggle break points.
Right click on the Debug icon and click Reset. I hope it Helps.
This shows all the breakpoints in the project.
Window > Perspective > Open perspective > debug, and it shows the breakpoints window by default.
Go to Run > Remove All Breakpoints
For some odd reason, I can't use breakpoints in my eclipse project. All breakpoints that I set have a diagonal line on them, above the dot in the respective line (on the left margin of the window), as if they are blocked. When I run in debug mode, the breakpoints are ignored. Any ideas?
You've probably just pressed "Skip All Breakpoints" in the Breakpoint view - simply press it again.
Default key bindings are: Ctrl + Alt + B.
This doesn't exactly answer the OPs question, but when trying to double click to add break points, I was getting messages stating "this feature is not enabled".
I had to right click on the break point bar and select "Breakpoint Types" -> "C/C++ Breakpoints" instead of "Default". Then it worked fine.
in python, I had to go to:
windows->perspective->Open Perspective->Debug
then select the Breakpoints tab and make sure the zero with the slash (skip all breakpoints) is not selected (you can also use Ctrl-Alt-B to toggle it).
Open Debug View
Open Breakpoint Perspective
Right-click all breakpoints there
Press Enable
My "toggle breakpoint" and other menu options were disabled. I restarted Eclipse (Kepler SR1) and they came back enabled. I could set breakpoints again!
In my case, I'd edited my code during debugging, adding a null-check so I could place a breakpoint to stop execution only when a certain value was null. I couldn't add a breakpoint because the line of code in question was not present in the running application.
In Java, certain code changes can be woven in as soon as the file is saved, so in my case, remembering to save the changes was enough to enable placing a breakpoint.
For changes that can't be woven in, the application must be restarted before the new lines of code will be present.
In my case, I opened up the Breakpoints view, clicked 'remove all breakpoints' and then toggled the 'skip all breakpoints' option off, then on. This allowed me to set breakpoints again. This was after a restart of eclipse failed to help.
I was having a simular issue, for me the standard code-editor changed after installing a new plugin from Marketplace. Apparently the Plugin thought to change the default-editor for a lot of file-types, not only the one I installed it for. The new editor did not allow setting breakpoints but I hadn't known it changed at the time. When I right-clicked my source-file in the Project-explorer I saw under open-with the new editor listed on top. When I opened with the previous editor, everything went back to normal.