While in Eclipse Helios I could press the Debug or Run btn while editing any file, in particular also xml-files.
Now with Indigo I have to position the cursor in a Java-file and the press debug/run.
This is rather annoying when editing just some xml-files having to jump to a Java-file before able to run the app.
Is this a new "Feature" or is it possible to get the same behaviour as before?
Many thanks
It's a feature, called Context launching. You can turn it off at the bottom of Preferences>Run/Debug>Launching. See http://eclipse-debug.blogspot.ca/2007/05/context-launchingfriend-or-foe.html for more details.
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I have recently upgrade my Eclipse installation from 2020-06 (4.16) to 2020-09 (4.17) using the recommended way. After restart and while opening the same workspace I use for years, the close button/icon is missing for some views when they are selected
This seems to be a known problem. However, closing the view and reopening it (as suggested on that page) doesn't work for me - the icon/button is still missing. I have also tried closing the view, restarting Eclipse, re-opening the view, and also while starting Eclipse using the -clean argument. This didn't help either.
Interestingly enough, for some views the icon/button is shown.
What else can be done to get the icon/button back?
Reseting the Perspective worked for me - Window > Perspective > Reset Perspective.
This has been reported as Eclipse bug 565946, which currently (2020-10) is still in status NEW.
I was working in Eclipse yesterday, when my keyboard shortcuts stopped working. They all worked until yesterday. Pressing Ctrl+Shift causes a popup saying the cursor does not (yet) have a detectable image. Ctrl works fine, and so does Shift + a letter. Only Ctrl+Shift+any key causes this error. Even just pressing Ctrl+Shift by itself causes the popup:
I use Eclipse with the Darkest Dark Theme plug-in on Windows 10.
What is causing this error, and how can I fix it? Thanks in advance.
As has been mentioned by Howlger, yes, Darkest Dark's Icon Designer uses Control-Shift when hovering over an icon to allow you to find the icon that you wish to tailor. This listener only activates if you have the view in your workspace, and I believe only if you have brought the view to the foreground. That said, we have a change in the next release to explicitly allow you to opt-in to using Control-Shift to find an icon.
Screenshot of explicit opt-in
This doesn't specifically have anything to do with open source or otherwise - simply the software behaving as designed
Try to uninstall the Darkest Dark Theme plug-in.
This closed source plug-in does load-time weaving to patch Java bytecode of the Eclipse platform (for legal reasons, to not have to publish their changes). In contrast of using a public API, load-time weaving patches have to be adapted for each (new) Eclipse version: an error in the plug-in can cause strange behavior of the Eclipse platform.
How to use menu item tooltips? When I add a new menu item in fragment.e4xmi there is a "tooltip" text field in properties editor window, but when I run the application I see no tooltips. Should I do something tricky to enable them? I've seen on the Internet that it was an issue before, but I assume it should be already fixed since properties editor suggests me to enter a tooltip. Setting tooltip via setTooltip() method programmatically doesn't work either. I use Mars.1 Release (4.5.1).
I think this is Eclipse bug 473779. Tool tips for menu items don't work in Eclipse 4.5.2 and earlier. This has been fixed in Eclipse Neon (4.6.0) due to be released shortly (June 2016).
I confirmed this testing on Mac OS X. Eclipse 4.5.2 doesn't show tool tips, Eclipse 4.6.0 does.
Something quite strange has happened: The whole Eclipse main window disappeared while I was debugging a Play Framework project. The Eclipse symbol in the applications bar still shows up as usual (from where I still can force Eclipse to quit).
My System (Ubuntu 14.04.) still behaves as if Eclipse was there, e. g. other applications get unfocused when choosing Eclipse in the applications bar. Meanwhile I have re-started Eclipse (that didn't help) and even re-started Ubuntu (still the same behaviour).
When I start Eclipse the workspace selection window shows regularly up. If I select another workspace, it also shows up regularly (I have created a second one to test that). Eclipse even still reacts properly on any shortcut as well as well as F10 & F11. It seems like the Eclipse main application window was "transparent". Therefore I assume that it is a problem of Eclipse resp. its workspace rather than an Ubuntu problem.
Does anybody have an idea where to maybe re-configure the workspace? Or is there even a secret function for all that?
Thanks a lot!!
Meanwhile I was able to re-get the window: I clicked on a shadow effect that sometimes showed up. I resized that shadow with my mouse. As an effect the Eclipse window top bar (the one above the menu) showed up again. Afterwards I could "pull out" the window from the bar - and there it all was again... But I have still no idea, how that happened - and what might be the solution if someone runs into that issue without having a shadow.
I am having a problem in Eclipse where it freezes whenever I add a period (to try to bring up the content assist popup with possible methods). I can move the mouse, but the blinking text cursor disappears, I can't switch tabs or save, and I need to use a task manager to close Eclipse. This happens with all Java projects/files.
I have never had a problem like this with Eclipse before, and can't tell what started it. After doing several Google searches, all I found was this bug. However, I don't see a solution and am running Windows 7, not Linux. Also, I have never heard of Xulrunner. Does anybody have a solution or explanation? Is it an Eclipse setting, or a problem with my computer?
Error Log: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101364250/eclipse_freeze.log
When I watched the error view, it seemed to output "Unhandled event loop exception" a lot.
For now, I have disabled the content assist, which seems to fix the problem.
However, this feature is very helpful, so any answers are appreciated!
Try opening Preferences and tick "Suspend all validators".
Try disable the hovers feature:
eclipse menu: Wndow > Preference