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Bug 267303

Summary:	Debug Project button becomes unavailable
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	peterhull90 <peterhull90>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	IDE log

Description peterhull90 2016-07-25 15:42:24 UTC

Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201607070002)
Operating System = Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.8.0_101
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.101-b13

Reproducibility: Haven't tried to reproduce it

STEPS:
  * Working on a small java project
  * Paused debugger and tried to do an edit and continue
 * Wasn't able to do this so stopped debugger and restarted
  * 'Classpath scanning in progress' message appeared and IDE seemed to be stuck in this state
 * Cancelled this and was not able to select the Debug Project button again (greyed out/unavailable)
 * But I could start the debugger by F7 step into

ACTUAL:
  Button is greyed out

EXPECTED:
  Button should be available for debugging

REPRODUCIBLE:
 Only happened once

Comment 1 peterhull90 2016-07-25 15:42:29 UTC

Created attachment 161430 [details]
IDE log

Comment 2 peterhull90 2016-07-28 09:35:21 UTC

I have tried and have not been able to reproduce this. 

Since the debug button becomes unavailable when you select an editor for a  file that's not in any project I suspect I might have done this inadvertently.

I think this report can be closed.

Comment 3 Martin Entlicher 2016-07-29 09:14:25 UTC

Yes, the Debug Project action is context-sensitive, therefore if the current file does not belong to a project, it's disabled.