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Bug 242720 - [breakpoints][menu] Add 'Skip All Breakpoints' to Variables view
Summary: [breakpoints][menu] Add 'Skip All Breakpoints' to Variables view
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 258767
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2008-07-31 09:55 EDT by Dani Megert CLA
Modified: 2011-06-09 11:08 EDT (History)
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2008-07-31 09:55:34 EDT
R3.4.

In 99% of the cases when debugging I'm interested in the variable values and hence have the Variables view in front (default Debug perspective). Now, often I quickly want to disable (and then again enable) all breakpoints. In order to do this I have to switch to the Breakpoints view to click the 'Skip All Breakpoints' icon. It would be good to have this in the Variables view's local toolbar as well.
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2008-07-31 09:59:54 EDT
Note: the action is in the top level "Run" menu an can be assigned a key-binding.
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2008-07-31 10:12:51 EDT
I know but I am a mouse user and going to the menu and scroll all the way down is much more pain than clicking the toolbar button.
Comment 3 Darin Wright CLA 2008-07-31 10:23:34 EDT
(In reply to comment #2)
> I know but I am a mouse user and going to the menu and scroll all the way down
> is much more pain than clicking the toolbar button.

Yes - and I can't explain how to set a key-binding either :-) I just know it is possible.

Comment 4 Kirk Beitz CLA 2011-03-10 13:05:16 EST
ran across this old bug while researching something else …

i would vote against adding a breakpoint-specific behavior to any other views, and thus would recommend closing this as "WONTFIX".  just a recipe for too much clutter in too many other views.

i have set a key-binding, and it's very easy, particularly when you've set a key-binding to set a key-binding.

1) Window>Preferences
2) enter "Keys" in the overall prefs filter or go to "General>Keys"
3) enter "Skip All Breakpoints" in the "Keys" filter
4) click on "Skip All Breakpoints"
5) click in the "Binding" field
6) enter a binding (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B)

if you don't have any conflicts, that's it.
Comment 5 Pawel Piech CLA 2011-06-03 18:21:45 EDT
Another vote for top-level toolbar?
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2011-06-04 02:21:14 EDT
(In reply to comment #5)
> Another vote for top-level toolbar?

It's one of the actions I'd like to see in a Debug main toolbar.
Comment 7 Kirk Beitz CLA 2011-06-04 14:18:48 EDT
(In reply to comment #5)
> Another vote for top-level toolbar?

if we have a debug top-level toolbar, i'd vote for this.

until a top-level toolbar is implemented, what if we had a default key-binding (as i mentioned in comment #4)?  Alt-F8 still isn't taken; F8 is currently resume, and Alt-F8 would fit together nicely with it.  i currently use ctrl-alt-shift-B, since that's close to ctrl-shift-B which is toggle breakpoint.

i would think adding a default key binding going forward would be a lot easier (politically if not implementation-wise) than adding a top level toolbar.

but whatever else is true, it doesn't belong at all in the "Variables View".
Comment 8 Dani Megert CLA 2011-06-06 02:48:26 EDT
I'm against adding a default key binding for this but agree that we should rather consider a main toolbar than adding more stuff to individual Debug views.

Suggest to close this bug as duplicate of bug 258767.
Comment 9 Pawel Piech CLA 2011-06-09 11:08:13 EDT
> Suggest to close this bug as duplicate of bug 258767.

Agreed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258767 ***