Is there a way (plugin) in Eclipse to open detached windows which can be put on separate monitors: e.g one monitor will have my source, second threads and variables? The feature is in IntelliJ.
Yes. From the "Window" menu select "New Window". You can also drag the tabs off of the main window and a new window with just that tab will be created.
If you want a window with just the source code by itself, dragging the tab with the source in it won't work. What you can do is create the new window, drag the source over and minimize any other existing tabs within the new window to essentially leave a "source code only" view. You should be able to save this as a perspective and name it "Editor Only". This is somewhat cumbersome to setup, but once you have the perspective saved it should be pretty easy to get in and out of.
This is available in Helios and possibly earlier versions.
You can right-click on the title of any "View" and choose "Detach", this way you won't need two mail windows.
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I am using Eclipse Oxygen (Ver 4.7.0) on CentOS with the UI shown via MobaXterm's X Windows server on Windows 7.
In Eclipse I have the weird problem that when I right-click on an editor tab the tab closes immediately! No context menu, nothing, just the tab vanishes. I would like to disable this, but I couldn't find any entry for right-clicking in the Keys section of the Preferences.
Is there another place where the right-click behaviour is set? Or how else can I disable this? The problem occurs only for editor tabs.
Additional details:
The right-click behaves correctly inside an editor tab by bringing up the context menu. This shows that the right-click is not genearlly broken in the X Window system.
The right-click behaves correctly in other X applications like PyCharm.
An explanation
A closer look revealed that Eclipse does show the context menu on right-click press-down, but on right-click release-up it registers a left-click event.
Due to the particular situation of when the context menu was drawn, the mouse pointer than just always happens to sit over the top entry in the menu. And this top entry is Close. The following screenshot might illustrate this a bit (unfortunately without the mouse pointer):
Solution
The immediate solution for me is to move the mouse after pressing the right mouse button and before releasing it.
Still I don't know why this happens only when right-clicking a tab and only for me - and probably not for many other people...
At risk of this being a trivial question, I need to know how to add more components (in the components explorer) in WindowBuilder for Eclipse Juno. I'm taking a dive and trying learn how to add a GUI to one of my personal projects. Right now all I have mustered up is just a JFrame that has a button that launches my program in the console with a little notification saying so. But what I am thinking about having is a "Start up Window" with just some stuff and button or something that says Enter application or something. So then I want a new window to pop up as a "Run Window". I have created a new JFrame as a "run window" and hide/set visibility of "startWindow" to false and get the result I want. But I want to be able to edit this new JFrame in the design window along with the default JFrame I started with.
Is there a way to do this? I tried right-clicking in the components window in the design view and it doesn't do anything. I also tried right-click the object from the project explorer and couldn't find anything. Am I missing something? Is this even possible?
The question seems to have 2 parts, so I will try to answer both of them.
1) Adding components directly in the components explorer
The only thing you could do, to get new components into there via right-click is "Surround with". For example you have a JPanel, right-click on it and click "Surround with...". You could try and put a JScrollPanel in there, so you can scroll your JPanel.
But the usual way to add components is by the "Palette", it contains a lot of components, that you can drag&drop into either the components-explorer or directly into your app Window -> Show View -> Palette.
2) Showing a certain window
If I understand this correctly, you want to show one window, click on a button and then show another window which has the same size etc. like the one before.
Setting the visibility for the first window to false and the second does work.
But under certain circumstances it's easier to use CardLayout.
Imagine a stack of cards, you can see only the first card. Then you click a button and now see the second card and so on.
See this: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/card.html
for information and examples.
Due to some reason I found, when displaying the source ,my navigator changed from the right side (preferred) to the left side , which need more clicks to access the source file. I remembered that I did accept some chance unconsciously which result in this unpleasant change but can not find a way go back...
Thanks for your help!
Your best friend in eclipse is CTRL+3 (quick access), press that and then search for what you want, try perspectives and views, see below.
Perspectives
Check what perspective you are in (now). In the top right of eclipse there is a list of perspectives. Sometimes when you carry out an action it asks you if you want to change perspectives. This can change your views/layouts. You might want the Java or Java EE perspective.
views
There are multiple views of your files. What is the name of the tab where ComputeBench is showing up? Try opening the "Project Explorer" or the "Package Explorer" views.
I use dual monitor for work and I prefer to have the editor on my main screen while the rest of eclipse in my laptop monitor.
However, when I open a new file, that is. I open a file with Cmd-Shift-R, files are opened in my laptop monitor as opposed to the editor that I dragged to my main screen.
I find this mildly annoying. Any ideas?
Are using the Window -> New Window feature? In that case it depends on which window you're working on at the time you press Ctrl+Shift+R.
However, if you're streching only one Eclipse window along both monitors, then the Open Resource dialog will be opened in your "monitor number 1" (and that depends on your graphic configuration: Laptop+Main or Main+Laptop).
I found easier to avoid the new window menu and just to drag those views out of eclipse. This creates a secondary window but the project explorer is linked to the old window so double click will open the file on the main window.
I recommend to save everything as a new perspective that I usually call "Java 2 Windows". This way I can change perspectives when I do not have an auxiliar screen.
P.S. Just avoid closing the auxiliar window when leaving eclipse.
Does anyone know of a way to make Eclipse an SDI application rather than an MDI one?
SDI - Single document interface, each pane is its own window
MDI - Multiple document interface, all of the panes are stuck inside one "master" window.
Eclipse is an MDI application. All of the little panes (like the call stack, variable viewer, etc) are part of the one master Eclipse window. Rather than having all of the windows stuck inside one master "eclipse" window, I'd like them to all be their own free-floating windows.
To make a pane "free-floatting" just drag that pane outside the main eclipse window.
If you have only one monitor, you have to resize first your eclipse window: you can not leave eclipse maximized on all the screen space.
Then you have to drag your pane outside the eclipse window until you see the cursor change into a little window with a '+' in the middle.
Once all your panes are in the required position, save your configuration in a new perspective. (Menu Window\Save Perspective As)
That way, you can switch between panes configurations easily.
Regarding the SDI aspect however, the editor part of eclipse is made to edit several document (so, MDI only).
Karl's double-click suggestion is the most effective to focus on one of those edited document.
Hit the little X next to each document until there is only one open.
Alternatively, doubleclick on the tab to maximize it.
Then edit your question to give some more information about what you really want to do.
No, Unfortuantly Eclipse 3.x and lower do not allow the editor window to be outside the application window. You can drag other windows outside the main window to give you more editor space, but you cannot for example drag an editor outside the main eclipse window onto a second monitor and to have another code window open on the main monitor. This feature seems to be scheduled for Eclipse 4. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8886 for this feature.