Eclipse 3.4+ - No more notifying a breakpoint in taskbar

Question

Hello.

This question may sound silly, but I was wondering if someone ever had that problem too. I was using Eclipse 3.2 to develop, earlier. Recently I changed to Eclipse 3.4 (ganymede), and I have a problem, concerning debugging. Before, whenever the debugger was hitting a breakpoint, Eclipse would blink in the windows taskbar, to notify about it. But since switching to 3.4, it doesn't "blink" anymore, so, to debug a Swing application, it can easily get annoying, because you don't see directly when you entered a breakpoint.

In other informations, I'm using Eclipse 3.4 over the previous workspace, so I thought it might be a problem, with using the previous settings, but after trying on a brand new workspace, I encountered the same issue. I tried to search about it in the Eclipse community, but nothing like this so far.

Has anyone ever had that problem ? And if yes, is there a way to make it work ?

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Edit: For information, updating to Eclipse 3.5 (galileo) didn't solve the issue, so I'm guessing it's not linked to only the previous update. Something probably changed since version 3.2, which is now preventing the usual "blinking" behavior. I can't figure out what, though.

Answer 1

It's not Eclipse which does the blinking but Windows. This usually happens when the application just opened a dialog and Windows didn't bring it to the front because you were busy elsewhere.

So the most simple way to get this behavior back is to enable the "This behavior is connected to the Debug Perspective. Do you want to switch now?"-dialog in the preferences.

Answer 2

Mine will blink for me. I have 3.4.1. I did find a preference option under Run/Debug. The second check box says "Activate the workbench when a breakpoint is hit". I thought this was automatically selected on mine. If I deselect it, I don't get the blink. Check to see if that option is selected for you.

I also noticed that if Eclipse is not behind something else (like on a dual monitor, perhaps), the focus will just switch to Eclipse with no blink. If you're clicking around on your UI, you may not notice the focus switch.