The K Desktop Environment

12.3. The floating toolbar

The floating toolbar is a feature of the internal debugger, which greatly improves your comfort in debugging GUI applications. The toolbar is either on top of all windows displayed, or docked into the panel. When docked you can run your code by clicking on the docked icon. The function this performs is the "step over" function. Right clicking on the docked item allows you to restore the toolbar and optionally place focus on kdevelop.

Besides the functions available from the Debug Menu, the floating toolbar offers two additional functions:

When gdb interrupts the program, probably because a breakpoint has been triggered, we highlight the "Set focus on kdevelop". We do not automatically switch focus to kdevelop so that you can view the application window at this point. Click on the "set focus" button to switch to kdevelop or press a button on the toolbar to perform your selected function.