Java Console Auto Popup?

[keithmberard]

Hello all,

In one of the PTC User sessions showing off some of the new features in the upcoming Epic 5.3 release, a Java exception was thrown that nicely popped up in a window. Does anyone know if this functionality can be enabled in
5.1? (I'm not certain this was automatic, but it sure seemed like it at the time)

I know that if Tools->Java Console is open at the time of the uncaught exception, the stacktrace is printed there. However, if this window is closed, all the user sees is a message along the lines of "Java has thrown an exception" which is less than useful for debugging purposes. Internally, we do a pretty good job of logging exceptions when they are caught, so this really just applies to the unexpected scenarios.


Thanks in advance,

Keith Berard
XML Systems Analyst
Milliman Care Guidelines LLC, A Milliman Company

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[ptc-933085]

Keith,

I didn't go to the PTC User event, so I didn't see the 5.3 preview, but
we have been making the Java Console pop up when we want to print a
stack trace by extending Application class, adding the following method,
and then calling it from whatever catch blocks we need. Not automatic,
but maybe a step toward what you are looking for...

public static void printStackTrace(Throwable throwable) {
try {
Acl.func("java_console", "1");
throwable.printStackTrace();
} catch(Throwable throwable1) { }
}

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