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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.
I agree that current feedback is not sufficient.