2 questions about the debugger in Eclipse with the ABAP Development Tools

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

Hello!

I have two questions related to the debugger from Eclipse with the ABAP Development Tools:

1. This is the standard perspective of the debugger:

Is there a way to temporary minimize the stack and the outline and put the debugger and the variables windows side by side?

2. After finishing debugging the debugging perspective stays like this forever. The only way I found to return to the standard ABAP ADT perspective is to explicitly choose it. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!

Regards,
Vlad

[Domi · Accepted solution]

Hi

You can hide each view using minimize in the right upper corner of the view.

A double click on a tab line will put the view to full screen (restore also with double click)

You can also adjust the default debugging perspective and restore to default be right click on the perspective button

or save it as new "custom debugging perspective" - to quickly change perspective use CTRL+F8 and CTRL+SHIFT+F8 (default shortcuts)

The debugger behaviour is a bit strange - we have to live with it...

regards

Domi

[Vlad_Ghitulescu · Accepted solution]

Hi, Domi!

Ok, I have just hidden the Stacks-view. That maximize horizontally my Variables (and Breakpoints)-view. So right now I have in the upper third of the screen the Variables (and Breakpoints in the other tab)-view, in the middle third my debugger / editor window and in the lower third the Table Data - view.

But: What I would really like is to have the Table Data still in the lower third and the remaining space equally divided for the debugger / editor - window (on the left) and for the Variables (and Breakpoints) - view (on the right).

Dragging on the active tab (in the debugger / editor or in the Variables / Breakpoints) only takes this very tab to another positions and not the whole view.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Regards,
Vlad

[Vlad_Ghitulescu · Accepted solution]

Hi, Domi!

Got it now: I moved the Variables-Tab first and the Breakpoints-Tab second to a separate view on the right side!

I've saved it as a "custom debugging perspective" as suggested. Unfortunately every time the main program / method change the perspective switches to the default debugging perspective 😕

Nevertheless: Thanks again!

Regards,
Vlad

[Domi · Accepted solution]

Hi

you can move the view tab to a new position or add it to an existing position as additional tab (move to the tab line)

so you can build any required layout

regards

Domi

[Armin_Beil · Accepted solution]

Hi Dominik,

"The debugger behaviour is a bit strange - we have to live with it..." - sorry to hear that. Can you name a few concrete things that make it strange in your perception? What is causing the worst pain?

Best regards,
Armin

[Armin_Beil]

Hi Vlad,

the debug perspective is not ABAP specific but instead the default eclipse debug perspective that is also potentially "shared" with other languages, e.g. if you do Java/C and ABAP development in the same eclipse IDE. The default layout will be improved with Eclipse Photon (https://twitter.com/vogella/status/933352471300370440).

In eclipse you can always customize any perspective yourself by drag & drop etc. Changes to perspectives will remain which means you can totally customize it the way you want and will stay like this. Since you also used the term "temporary" in your question.. is there any special reason for that? Do you have a special reason why you want certain adjustments to be only temporary?

For question 2)

Switching back from debug perspective to ABAP perspective requires manual activity (e.g. by pressing a button on the top right corner). There might be 3rd party plugins that provide some kind of automatism but there is no automatism by default.

Personally I'm not a big fan of perspective switches at all [especially since I have a 34" curved monitor 🙂 ]. So I actually deactivated the automatic perspective switch and created a custom perspective that contains all views that I need for ABAP development & debugging.

Best regards,
Armin

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

Hi, Armin!

- Photon: I can wait! 🙂

- temporary: I use the Stacks-view, but once in a while I want a bigger editor / debugger - window, so I would gladly minimize the Stacks for this. The same with the Outline: is very useful, but once in a while I rather want to see more columns in the Table Data view.

- switching back from debug by pressing the ABAP perspective button top right: I've found this too. What I still don't know how is what to do if I want to cancel the debugging-session and come back to the normal ABAP perspective. Any hint?

- 34"?! curved?! are you kidding?! 🙂 (I'm happy that I can use a 23" external monitor and not being cramped with the 15" of my work-laptop!)

- would you mind sharing a screenshot of your custom perspective - just for inspiration?

Thanks again!
Vlad