Eclipse/PyDev question

[king kikapu]

On Aug 13, 1:44 pm, ga... at dsdata.it wrote:
> On Aug 13, 11:48 am, king kikapu <aboudou... at panafonet.gr> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > i am using Eclipse (Platform Runtime binary) with PyDev and i was
> > wondering if someone can help me with this:
>
> > 1. I set breakpoints to a .py file and i have told Eclipse to open the
> > Debug perspective when it sees that some .py file(s) of my project
> > indeed contains breakpoints. So, i press F9,  Eclipse starts, Debug
> > perspective opens and i can use the debugger just fine. But when the
> > app terminates, how can i tell Eclipse to switch automatically to the
> > PyDev perspective and not remain in the Debug one ?
>
> You don't, Eclipse keeps the same perspective because for what it
> knows you might want to debug some more and it correctly avoids to
> decide what is good for you. Switching to the debug perspective when
> you issue a debug command is an exception to the normal switching of
> perspectives with the respective big buttons and the menu.
> If you wish to switch perspective to edit code before debugging again,
> putting editors and appropriate accessory views in the debug
> perspective might be good enough.
>
> > 2. Let's say we have a project that consists of some .py files. I want
> > to press F9 when the editor displays anyone of these files but make
> > Eclipse to run the whole project (that has another .py as "default")
> > and not the script that i am currently working on, is that possible ??
>
> Executing the current file is a bad habit, Eclipse remembers a list of
> execution/debug configurations that can be selected from a dropdown
> list in the toolbar and edited with a dialog box; after you setup
> entry points for a project you can use and edit them as needed.
> I'm using Eclipse for Java and my entry points include remote
> debugging of a GUI application, about 6 JUnit tests, about 3 command
> line tools with many complex parameter sets each, and some Ant builds;
> it would take about one hour of trial and error to reconstruct the
> command lines, classpaths and JVM options. I only run the current file
> as a draft for an edited configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Lorenzo Gatti

Hey Lorenzo,

thanks for the help!

I understood that with the Debug perspective. Ok, i will, as
currently, have to swtick manually to PyDev.

But i cannot figgre out how i can tell Eclipse to run the whole
Project and not the currently active script that i work on...