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[procedure: prolint/outputhandlers/logwin.w]

The Prolint Result window shows a browse widget containing all warnings from the most recent Prolint run.

When Prolint is working, the statusbar shows:

1. sourcefile where Prolint is working on
2. which action Prolint is currently doing
3. total number of warnings
4. the name of the current profile
5. percentage done, if more than one file is to be processed

When Prolint is ready, the statusbar shows:

1. total elapsed time of last Prolint run
2. empty
3. total number of warnings, or if a filter is set: visible warnings / total warnings
4. the name of the current profile
5. empty, or "filtered" when a filter is set

Window features:

• The browse can be sorted by any column by clicking on a column header.
  
• Double-click on a row opens the currently selected sourcefile in an external editor, if file prolint/settings/exteditor.cfg is correctly set up
  
• Right-click on a row opens a popup-menu, which gets help for the currently selected warning.
• Button "Desktop" opens the Prolint Desktop window
  
• Button "Lint files" opens dialog "Select files to lint" for selecting a number of files to run Prolint on.
  
• Button "Save log As" saves all warnings to a tab-delimited logfile, using outputhandler "tabfile.p". Only warnings that match the current filter will be saved.
• Button "Import log" allows you to import a tab-delimited logfile that was previously saved by outputhandler "tabfile.p". This will reset the filter.
• Button "Filter" allows you to specify a WHERE-clause for the browse widget. This same WHERE-clause is also used by "Save log as", by "Delete" and by export to Ed4Win.
• Button "Delete" will delete all warnings that match the current filter, and will reset the filter. What's left are warnings that did not match the filter.
• Button "Help" shows the page you are reading now.
• Button "Lint this c.u. again" lints the currently selected compilation unit in the browse again; if the browse is empty the dialog "Select files to lint" will open. This will also reset the filter.
• Button "Open sourcefile in editor" launches your favourite text-editor and loads the currently selected sourcefile.
• Button "Help on this rule" shows help on the rule that caused the currently selected warning.

Export to ED for Windows:

(this feature works only if you have ED for Windows and Progress version 9).

You will probably want to edit the sourcefiles where Prolint found warnings.
This is very easy when the warnings are listed in the "Build"-window of ED for Windows instead of the Prolint Results window.


There is a relatively easy way to export the warnings from the Results window to ED's Build window, if you have
installed proed4w :

1. make sure that the "Proed4w Server" is started in your current Progress session.
2. open ED for Windows and go to menu-item "Tool | Build Setup.."
3. run title "Prolint-logwin" and watch how all warnings from the Results window are copied to the Build window

The advantage of this method, over just running Prolint from within ED for Windows, is that this
will use the filter and sorting from the Result window.

How it works:

ED starts proed4w.exe with the "-c prolint-logwin" parameter.

proed4w.exe makes a TCP/IP connection with proed4w.p and passes it the "-c prolint-logwin" parameter.

proed4w.p publishes a "Prolint_SendLogWin_Ed4Win" event.

The Results window receives the event and passes all selected warnings on to outputhandlers/ed4win.p

Outputhandler ed4win.p publishes lines to proed4w.p

Proed4w.p sends lines through TCP/IP back to proed4w.exe

proed4w.exe writes those same lines to stdout, where ED will read them.

More setup details: see page Integrating Prolint and ED for Windows