I posted something last week on the CFEclipse mailing list about how best to view the error logs in Eclipse/CFEclipse when something goes wrong. You can view the logs within Eclipse itself by visiting:
Window >> Show View >> Other >> PDE Runtime >> Error Log
But when I looked – I did not have a “PDE Runtime” view! After installed Eclipse 3.3 I still didn’t have that view so I decided to do a bit of Googling.
Turns out you can enable/disable that view in the preferences – it has something to do with plug-in development and doesn’t appear to be enabled by default.
I added instructions to the CFEclipse wiki to enable this view: Viewing Eclipse Error Logs
Thanks!
The error log view was suddenly no more when I installed Eclipse 3.3..!
That’s really quite strange, given that Eclipse is so huge and complex that it will eventually produce internal errors. Us developers will need to be able to debug the IDE, so to speak, when it produces errors.
The one I apparently got (after finding the damn log!) was when I hooked up everything after the Eclipse 3.3 installation, and enabled the User Dictionary, and stated it was UTF-8. Turned out it was Latin-1, and there was a non-parseable-as-UTF-8 letter in it.
When clicking OK, I just got a box stating that “an error occurred”, without any other data!! And with the error log view no longer available, I was a bit lost to what happened.
(The letter was in my name! Stølsvik, that “ø” there..!).