Eclipse & Java: is there an event monitoring feature?

Question

When developing java guis (e.g. swing) in eclipse there is a built-in function (or plugin) that allows you to track all events that are fired?

Answer 1

You can also write AWTEventListener yourself. Just add the following lines to your program.

 Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() { public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent event) { System.out.println(event); } }, -1); 

Replace the output with anything. You can also listen to certain events only by changing -1 to some constants from AWTEvent .

Answer 2

There is something in eclipse, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for. it is called "Watch", it oversees everything that happens with this particular variable.