No visuals when starting the debugging

[richard-doornbos]

When pressing the Debug perspective in Eclipse, and pushing the debug button. Nothing happens visually, only the red indicator shows that the debug session is running. The windows that normally show the possible actions (top-left) and the message sequence chart (bottom right) do not show anything. For new users (me) this is confusing.

Solution (found by an experienced user): the various Views were deleted (somehow). Apparently these can be restored by a right-click on a button top right and selecting 'reset' (never used this functionality before... it is really well hidden!)

[ajmooij]

In this case the Debug view in the POOSL Debug perspective was closed. As a consequence, the other views (like Execution Tree, Variables and Sequence Diagram) in the POOSL Debug perspective were not updated.

[ajmooij]

My proposal for a solution would be to check (when launching a debug session) whether the Debug view exists in the POOSL Debug perspective. If it does not exist, then offer the user the option to add the Debug view, or to reset the POOSL Debug perspective.