Intellij Idea not showing errors in Message Tool Window after Gradle build

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Ognyan picture Ognyan · May 4, 2015 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

Intellij Idea 14.1.2, Gradle 2.3

I have a project with few java subprojects. Gradle builds works as expected but Intellij Idea does not capture the output of it and does not show the Messages Tool Window where you can click on the error and go to the source file.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create new gradle project
  2. Create new class with one method
  3. Introduce intentionally one error
  4. Build using Gradle tool window

Expected result: Message Tool window will show up showing the error.

Actual result: Output is shown in the Run tool window, but the Message window is not shown (it's menu item is not even active in View -> Tool windows)

I've tryed to reimport the project, to create it from scratch, searched Idea's settings, manipulated manually values in *.iml but with no success and I am running out of ideas.

Any idea where I can find a setting that tells the IDE to direct output to the Messages window?

Answer

BrianC picture BrianC · Aug 4, 2016

In Intelij 16.2 I had this problem as well. In the top left corner of the "Run" window there is an odd looking button that when you mouse over is labeled "Toggle tasks executions/text mode." Click it and it will show you the output from the Gradle build instead of the steps in the task execution.

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