Stuttering Toolbar Buttons

Are you seeing a crazy number of toolbar buttons when you launch DVT? Does it look like the toolbar is possessed? Maybe something like this:

If so, you have a case of non-excluded sub-directories in your project. It’s an easy problem to fix.

First let’s see where the extra toolbar buttons are coming from.
Open up Run Configurations: Run->Run Configurations
open_run_configurations

Select DVT Generic in the list of Run Configurations and pick a run config from the list.

  • Now select the Common tab.
  • In the Save As box where it says Shared file will be the location of that run configs .launch file:

You can see that this run config is coming from a here:

So the easy fix is to exclude the directory in your excludes: