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Bug 532406

Summary: Inspect window (sometimes) disappears instantly
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Joshua Goldberg <joshgold>
Component: DebugAssignee: Sarika Sinha <sarika.sinha>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 4.7.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X   
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Description Joshua Goldberg CLA 2018-03-13 13:59:44 EDT 
The inspect window (Cmd-Shift-I) often gets into a state where it disappears as soon as it pops up, making it impossible to use.  Sometimes the selection is un-selected.  Sometimes if I carefully reselect and Cmd-I over-and-over, I can get it to work, but often a given expression never gets to a stable window.  A different file might work (e.g., I can go to another part of the stack and look at other expressions.)


I do not have focus-follows-mouse (I'm on OSX 10.12), so this is more general that bugs 161986 and 382166.  (See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5384476/eclipse-java-and-inspect-window )

I first noticed this problem in August 2017.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2018-03-14 06:15:16 EDT 
Sarika, I think we already have a (similar) bug for that but couldn't find it right now.
Comment 2 Sarika Sinha CLA 2018-03-14 23:54:20 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 516870 ***