I had a problem with line numbering portion of my Flash Builder 4 (Eclipse) including setting breakpoints, error tracking and line numbers not updating. At first I just said that I can live with this Eclipse voodoo problem since it’s not the first one but with time it hampered my work.
I found commiserators here, as well what the problem really is:
If you’re running SnowLeopard and keeping your Eclipse on a secondary monitor this weird problem will happen – line numbers won’t scroll and anything that resides on line number portion of the interface will go nuts (show erroneously without any noticeable pattern).
Solution is easy enough – move the Eclipse or Flash Builder to your primary monitor and the problem instantly goes away. Good. But wait a second! I use the secondary 23′ monitor so all the Eclipse elements of the interface can fit. 15′ feels like having one hand tied behind my back.
Adobe posted a patch that actually works! Don’t forget to read Rick Winscot’s post about the details. You can use the pre-patched files from Adobe’s bug page.
This little episode was another reminder not to take things for granted. Makes me think who wrote the first line numbering code to begin with?
