How do I disable Hot Code Replace in Eclipse

Question

HCR is failing a lot more often than not for me at the moment. It keeps popping up the "Hot Code Replace Failed" dialog, over and over and over. I know there is a checkbox to shut it up, but later on when I'm doing something else I actually want the dialog to appear. Plus I don't want hot swapping code right now anyways, I just want the debugger.

So is there a setting someplace for that "do not show dialog again" checkbox, for when I want to re-enable it? Better yet, is there a way to turn HCR on and off period?

BTW, as far as I can tell disabling "Build Automatically" doesn't disable it.

Vivl

Answer 1

Window / Preferences -> Java / Debug

There are four checkboxes related to Hot Code Replace. Disabling them all should help you.

Coastland

This does not disable hot code replacement itself, only the warnings for when it fails. – Java

Answer 2

An update on Paulo Guedes's answer:

Eclipse Version: 2018-09 (4.9.0) has an 'Enable hot code replace' checkbox under the Hot Code Replace section of Preferences->Java->Debug (dont select any of the sub sections under the reveal arrow beside Debug, it is the top level of Debug that you want).

Check

Cool, but I want to disable it for specific launche configurations only. I guess that's not possible? – Embryectomy