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PreScan Procedure	Read-only field. Shows the file name defined in the Project properties Optional section.
Project Files	Total and by type (.w, .p, *.i) amounts of files found in the Project source code location folder. This counts all the files including the files with nonstandard Progress extensions, defined in Project properties. Clicking the flat buttons there shows the files lists.
Refresh	Reread the Project source code location folder and recalculate the numbers.
Autorefresh	Applies Refresh automatically when you open the window.
Scan Parameters:	Whole project scan, or Changes only.
Whole project	Does the whole project source code scan, overwriting all the previous data stored in <project-name>.dat and <project-name>Ext.dat data files.
Changes only	Applies scan only to the modified files. File size is used do decide has this file been modified since last project scan or not.
Skip compile	Debug mode options. Allows you to skip the compilation process even if nothing has been compiled yet. Use for the debug purpose only.
Options	Opens the Project Source Code Scan Options window. See description below.
START	Starts the source code compilation and parsing process.
Open Logfile	Opens the source code scan logfile in Notepad.
Options (top menu)	Window top menu. Includes two options: Ignore comments (recommended to be allays ON), and Debug mode (recommended to be ON only when testing the user-defined parser or PRO4m when it is not able to complete parsing for some reason and/or stops/kills the session) See modScal.log file for the last parsed file debugger information.

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Source Code Scanner Options

PRO4m Options:

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Internal Procedures	Scan for the internal procedures used and defined. Mandatory option.
Internal Functions	Scan for the internal functions used and defined. Mandatory option.
External Procedures	Scan for the external procedures used. Mandatory option.
Includes Used	Scan for the include files used. Mandatory option.
Input/Output parameters	Scan for the procedures' input/output parameters.
OS Programs Used	Scan for the external (non-Progress) procedures calls.
Shared Resources	Scan for the all shared resources defined in a procedure or include file.
DB Tables used	Scan for the database tables usage statistics.
Fields usage statistics	Scan for the database fields usage statistics.
No table lock definition	Scan for the SHARE-LOCK and where a LOCK option is not defined in FIND/FOR/QUERY statements.
PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE	Scan for the PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE statements.

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Prolint Options:

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Use User-defined prescan procedure	Start the user-defined prescan procedure (if available). Starts on click of "Refresh" button.
Prescan Procedure	Read only field. Prescan procedure (4GL) file name. The procedure name can be modified from the Project properties window.
Use Prolint Output	Do Prolint code analysis (if available).
Use Profile	Read only field. Profile name (PRO4m) is preconfigured in Prolint and is shown here just as information. Still can be changed by manual modification of 'ProlintProfile' parameter of the <project-name>.prj file.
Use User-defined Parser	Start the user-defined parser procedure.
User-defined Parser	Read only field. User-defined parser procedure name. See usrParser.p for more information about this. The procedure name can be modified from the Project properties window.

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Tips and Tricks

Save your project when the source code scan is completed, especially if it took quite long time to do;
Use "Options" -> "Debug mode" when having a trouble parsing a project;

Last updated: November 9, 2003 11:23 AM