[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Debug buttons in KDE

[Billy Biggs <bbiggs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Malcolm Ryan wrote:
> Running eclipse 3.1 under KDE (3.2.3), I've noticed that the "Step 
> Over", "Step Into", etc buttons in the Debug view don't quite work 
> properly. If I click the button once, it works, but then if I 
> immediately try to click it again, nothing happens. I need to remove the 
> mouse pointer from the button and then reenter it in order to be able to 
> click on it. This is quite frustrating when I am trying to step through 
> some code.
>
> Strangely enough, it doesn't seem to happen with other buttons on the 
> screen. For example, I can press the "Run" button repeatedly without any 
> trouble.
>
> Any ideas what is going on here?

  This is because of a really old bug in GTK+ (which has actually become
worse in more recent versions of GTK+):

    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070

  Since it makes debugging annoying with GTK+ 2.6, a fix was put in for
eclipse 3.1RC1:

    http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=82169

  Are you seeing this problem with 3.1RC1 or newer?  If so, can you file
a new bug about it against Platform > SWT?

  Thanks,
  -Billy