Breakpoint Dialog Box: Thread
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You use this dialog box to set the properties of a field breakpoint.
You can set field breakpoint properties when you set a new breakpoint or when modifying an
existing breakpoint.
- To set a new field breakpoint, choose Debug > New Breakpoint
(Ctrl-Shift-F8) from the main menu, then select Field from the Breakpoint Type drop-down list.
- To customize an existing field breakpoint, right-click the field breakpoint in the
Breakpoints window and choose Customize.
You can set the following values:
- Settings:
- Stop On. Defines when to trigger the breakpoint:
- Thread Start. When a thread starts.
- Thread Death. When a thread stops.
- Thread Start or Death. Both when a thread starts and when a thread stops.
- Conditions
- Break when hit count. When selected, enables you to specify how frequently the breakpoint is triggered.
Choose a criteria in the drop-down list and then specify a numerical value.
- Actions.
- Suspend. Specifies which threads in the program
being debugged are suspended when the breakpoint is reached.
You can specify no threads, all threads, or the breakpoint
thread. The breakpoint thread is the thread that is current
when the breakpoint is reached.
- Print Text. The specified message is printed in the Debugger Console view of the Output window. For information on the tags you can include in the message, see
Printing a Breakpoint Message.
- See Also
- New Breakpoint Dialog Box
- Setting a Java Breakpoint
- Debugging Threads in the IDE
- Breakpoints in the IDE
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