[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Help with debugging

[Stefan Zugal <Zugi00@xxxxxx>]

I had the same problem.

Try to find out where your program starts and put a try - catch block 
around this expression. In the catch block you state
e.printStackTrace();

This will cause to print the stack trace.

regards,
Stefan

Astrid Sawatzky schrieb:
> Lars Erik wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> > Im making a plugin to eclipse with GEF and EMF. My problem is 
> > debugging  the plugin.
> > I get different exceptions in the runEventLoop method in the 
> > Workbench  class. The
> > exception handler only writes a small message to the console and no  
> > stacktrace.
> > I've been stepping through the hole thing and the error seem to be  
> > somewhere in one
> > of the threads(I think..). Without the trace its kind of hard to find 
> > out  where in
> > the code the error is. Is there a way to get the hole trace? I've 
> > tried  log4j
> > without any luck. :(
> >
> > Lars.
> dear Lars,
>
> when I had this a few days ago, it was in the getChildren() in Editpart. 
> which I had overwritten,instead of setting setParent for the children in 
> the Editpart-factory.
> There is a nice Programmer's guide in GEF 3.1 help and there is a 
> newsgroup eclipse.tools.gef which is really worth while. Cu, there
>
> HTH
>
> kind regards Astrid