[gsanipelli]

I'm about ready to give up on Eclipse - I'm getting this ridiculous error out of nowhere (everything was working fine before, don't know what changed) and I've wasted 3 days trying to get Eclipse to debug properly.

I can run my programs just fine with multiple classes, but when I try to debug into any class outside the 'public static void main' class where the program enters, I get the "Source not found" page and "Edit source lookup path..." button.

I've scoured the internet/forums and none of their solutions have helped me. I'm using the standard version of Eclipse, no fancy plugins, JRE 6, no spaces in any project/file names. I try making a simple test app with 2 classes in the same file, not importing anything, and it doesn't work. When I click the button to edit source path it shows my project in their under the parent "Default" folder - even so I've tried manually adding my project and it makes no difference. I've even installed eclipse fresh on my brand new PC, and same problem. HELP!!!

[gmcfarlane]

I am having the same problem, slightly more complex project I inherited. Rather frustrating.
I am able to make code changes, I can tell they are being compiled and understood, but I cant step in.
Relegated to 1980 style print and play debugging

[gmcfarlane]

Additional thought.
Studying the class that can be stepped (A), and the one that cant (B), I realize A has a main().
So I add a main() to B.
I still can not step from A into B. No big surprise.

However, if I add a Launch Configuration and point at B.main(), it steps in wonderfully.
I can then mock up some code, just to prove a point, whereby B actuall does some mock code and then calls A.

A then calls B and you can step through it.

So - This is not a project issue, but a Launch Configuration issue. ?maybe?

I am just thinking outloud here, b/c lots of people post on this issue. And while I have found many statements of the problem, slight variations, I have not found any help.

Someone help!!! lol.

greg

[gmcfarlane]

Constructors?
Follow on to previous post

Adding a simple class and playing with that, I realize that I can not step into a class' constructor.

I can make a trivial class and make a trivial assignment (i=3 and I reproduce the issue.
However, I can step over the constructor and step into any method.
I reproduced this behaviour in the production code.

So - if you are having this problem, there are 2 work arounds that I know of

1. If you just need to test the code, you can put a main() in the class and call yourself from there. wow.

2. If you can refactor the code , pull the logic out of the constructor and put it in a sub. You should be able to step through the sub. Again, wow.


I think i have narrowed this down quite a bit, if anyone can tell me why i cant step into a constructor, I would appreciate it.