Setup and Configuration

This page describes the steps to configure proed4w. Don't let the amount of text on this page scare you: it really is not much work to get started.

Locate or create a directory in your PROPATH where you like to install tools, for example:

c:\p4gl\tools            (existing directory, already in your PROPATH)
c:\p4gl\tools\proparse   (contains proparse.dll and sources)
c:\p4gl\tools\prolint    (contains prolint sources)
c:\p4gl\tools\proed4w

Unzip the contents of proed4w.zip in directory tools: this will create subdirectories tools\proed4w and tools\adecomm. If all is well then you
should be able to "run proed4w\proed4w.p" without modifying the PROPATH.



Next you will have to customize a couple of configuration files. You can choose to let setup.w take care of all that, or you can choose to do it manually. I suggest you use setup.w first and maybe later optimize some things manually when needed.

Automated configuration, using setup.w:

  1. Start a Progress session and connect all databases that are required for a typical development session. More precisely: connect all databases that are required when you want Prolint to check your sourcefiles.
  2. Make sure ED for Windows is not running. Close ED if it is running.
  3. run proed4w/setup.w.

That's all! You can skip the next paragraph and continue reading "Create a custom toolbar-button in ED for Windows".

Note: You can repeatedly run setup.w, it will never override existing settings except in directory proed4w/settings/setup.

Manual configuration:

If you didn't or couldn't simply run proed4w/setup.w, you can follow these steps instead:

  1. Add proed4w/winEd4W.w to the PRO*TOOLS palette. A small bitmap is provided in the proed4w directory.
  2. procedure proed4w/winEd4w.w requires the MessageBlaster OCX. There is a chance that this OCX is already registered on your PC, but if it isn't run the following command (assuming that proed4w was installed in subdirectory c:\p4gl\tools):
    regsvr32 c:\p4gl\tools\proed4w\msgblst32.ocx
    
  3. in ED for Windows, open a .p file, then go to menu-item "Tool|Build setup..." and press the "Add"-button to add a new extension-specific program title. Give the new program a descriptive title like "Prolint". Set the command line to

    c:\p4gl\tools\proed4w\proed4w.exe -c prolint -f "<NAME>" -cfg setup
    

    (where c:\p4gl\tools\ needs to be replaced by the actual location on your PC).

    A complete overview of parameters is on page "parameters".

    Set "Error track type" to "Progress" and select "Show output window". You may also want to experiment with the radio-set "Save edited files".

    The result will look like this screenshot:

  4. now open a .w file in ED for Windows and repeat the previous step to add Prolint for this extension too.
  5. Create yet another one, but this time as a General title (not extension specific). Name it "Prolint-logwin" and the command-line is simply:
    c:\p4gl\tools\proed4w\proed4w.exe -c prolint-logwin
    
  6. locate subdirectory proed4w/settings/setup. You will find a couple of files: setup.ini, setup.pf and proed4w.ini.
    These files need to be customized:

    • proed4w.ini: modify command and workingdir
    • setup.ini: (this is basically a copy of progress/startup.ini): modify at least DLC and PROPATH
    • setup.pf: add connection parameters for your development database(s).

Create a custom toolbar-button in ED for Windows:

You don't have to create a custom toolbar-button but it makes life helluvalot easier: edit a source file, press the button and Prolint will inspect your modified source.


The steps to create a button can be found in the FAQ at getsoft: click here.