I really like the Tips in IntelliJ IDEA to learn more about its helping functions. But I tend to start the IDE multiple times a day and get a new message every time. Then the same messages are getting annoying and I usually wont even read them anymore.
So I would like to set the tip of the day to daily as the name suggests.
I didnt find a setting in the program or on their help pages.
Is there a config file or some other possibility to do so?
There is no such option. What you can do is disable this window.
To do this, click on Help > Tip of the day and uncheck Show tips on startup.
Whenever you want to see a new tip navigate to this same place and read as many as you wish.
But no, there is no option to display it only once a day. It shows up whenever the IDE is started.
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I hope I can explain my specific annoyance clearly enough:
Quite some time ago, IntelliJ introduced a feature in the run console to parse the content of the output and would try to print a nice tree structure on the left. However, its default behavior of jumping to the error was very annoying. To illustrate my point:
When it starts normally, the full console output is available in the right panel. However, when things happen, or, in my case of gradle run, when I simply stop it, IntelliJ would jump to the specific block of output only with the error:
Note, in the second screenshot, that there is no scroll bar on the right side of the right panel, and thus I cannot scroll up to view the actual run logs. I have to click the left panel's top element in the tree to be able to view all logs.
The locking to a specific block of output is nice to have, but I am happy without it too, as before it was introduced. But the default jumping to that block is annoying and irritating. Almost in all cases I started and ended a run like this, I have to click the left panel to view the whole log -- this "Build cancelled" error block is of no use at all. And when it's jumping to an actual exception, majority of the time I'd need to look around its context for the cause, which requires me to re-orient myself in the log flow where the block was at. This is very counter productive for me.
I have been assuming IntelliJ should provide an option to either not jump to the error by default (leaving the full log available in the right panel), or to disable the whole console output parsing as a whole.
I have not been able to locate a setting for either of this. Does anyone know if that's possible?
We are working to fix that. Please vote and follow https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-241844
I really like how IntelliJ displays the information of the type of parameters that you are required to fill in as you are writing the code. The problem is that this info sometimes disappears if u click somewhere to check something etc. I never quite know how to get it to display that information again in same fashion. So I always spend some time to fiddle around until it displays that info again in the same fashion. I know you can hold down on ctrl and hover over the method name to bring up parameters information but its not quite the same and it then does not highlight on what parameter you are currently on. IntelliJ also brings up required parameters type of information when you are starting to go wrong. It brings up this big separate box and you can get very clear view of what needs to be done. I've taken a screenshot of the type of information that I'm on about. Both of them are on the same pic.
Please check it out.
My question: is there a way to bring this information up via keystrokes or mouse input at will? I've tried to google for an answer but I haven't had any joy. Please advise as I'm sure someone else might like this information too.
Thank you.
PS. I know that a good code does not usually have that many parameters but in my case there is not much that can be done.
Default shortcut for that is CTRL-P when cursor is inside the brackets.
Got very annoying thing while hard working - Intellij IDEA thinks that I always should have a look at event which is important as it considers.
No, Skyline, it's not such important as you think =)
For example I run a heavy code and while it's running, I'm looking at something else in browser, or making notes in editor AND BANG!!:
since debug breakpoint was met in my application - IDEA makes its window active and overlaps all others.
There were plenty of situations when I was typing smthg, even login info in input fields and in that moment IDEA came on top of windows so I was interrupted, made mistakes, sent info to wrong resource etc. and get angry.
Is there any chance to tell IDEA to be silent at least on debug events?
I want IDEA to switch its window to breakpoint place in code BUT I don't want IDEA to make its ON TOP on my screen at that moment.
thank you.
Try to disable Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Debugger | Focus application on breakpoint:
Yes, this happens to people. Yes, I've looked at all the solutions.
This is different.
XCode starts and there is no error message, it just freezes. This is the screen I get:
That's it. No errors. I can't interact with it, I can't close it. The only thing I can do is use Show All Windows. There are five and yes I don't need them all (never did! don't know why I have them) but I can't close any of them. To get rid of it I need to do a hard reset.
I've tried deleting the library file in Finder as this was one of the solutions.
Nope.
Anyone any ideas?
I think it's XCode 6 (the latest) but I can't tell because I can't access the menu.
I ended up scouring Stackoverflow for ways to clear the startup process.
You hold cmd+shift when you start XCode - ONLY from the task bar, this does NOT work if you go into the Applications folder - and it will load blank.
Then you can load your project.
I want to track a set of custom plug-ins usage in Eclipse.. Like how many time they clicked the menu option etc...
Do you guys have any clue / suggestions?
Thanks..
Yea, there is a Usage Data Collector that you can use that does exactly this.
http://www.eclipse.org/epp/usagedata/
I haven't used it myself, so I'm not sure if this is working like you want out of the box, or if you will have to make some adaptations.