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Bug 29663

Summary: Better feedback when encountering a thread breakpoint
Product: debugger Reporter: David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component: JavaAssignee: issues@debugger <issues>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 27150    
Bug Blocks:    

Description David-john Burrowes 2002-12-20 00:39:05 UTC 
Right now, if a thread start breakpoint is
encountered, the only consistent feedback the user
gets is a notification in the main-window's status
area.
 
This is probably not adequate.

A quick solution would be to make sure the
debugger console is visible before printing a
message there so that the user may see that note.
 [this has the bad aspect that it would hide any
output the user might have been watching, which
would be a nuisance for some users]

A good solution would be to at least beep when
this happens (see 
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27150
 )

It would also be good to make sure the debugger
view is frontmost in its window, and make sure
that it provides feedback to indicate that the
debugger is paused.
Comment 1 Roman Ondruska 2005-05-12 13:54:19 UTC 
I agree that current feedback is not sufficient.