Dear All,
I would like to offer you a little utility (called ShowERRS) that I wrote several months ago (in FreeBasic of course) and that I use regularly and find very helpful.
It basically goes through the FreeBasic generated '?compilelog.txt' file and the various FireFly code files and collates and displays a more meaningful list of error and warnings messages.
So if you take the following code snippet as an example:-
'=========
Function FORM1_WM_CREATE ( hWndForm as HWnd, ByVal UserData as Integer ) as Integer
'
' The variables Test and Test 1 are not defined so should give an error
'
Test = 1
Test1 = 1
'
' The function return is not defined so should give a warning
'
End Function
'=========
Then ShowERRS will generate a window containing the following information and also create a similar text file called ShowERRS.TXT in the RELEASE directory (see FB1.JPG attached):-
=============================
Processing: D:\Programming\FreeBasic\BarryFreebasicProjects\Project1\release\_Project1_compilelog.txt
D:\Programming\FreeBasic\BarryFreebasicProjects\Project1\release\CODEGEN_PROJECT1_FORM1_FORM.inc
Line: 624 - 'error 41: Variable not declared, Test in 'Test = 1''
623: '
624: Test = 1
625: Test1 = 1
626: '
D:\Programming\FreeBasic\BarryFreebasicProjects\Project1\release\CODEGEN_PROJECT1_FORM1_FORM.inc
Line: 625 - 'error 41: Variable not declared, Test1 in 'Test1 = 1''
624: Test = 1
625: Test1 = 1
626: '
627: ' The function return is not defined so should give a warning
D:\Programming\FreeBasic\BarryFreebasicProjects\Project1\release\CODEGEN_PROJECT1_FORM1_FORM.inc
Line: 629 - 'warning 13(0): Function result was not explicitly set'
628: '
629: End Function
630:
Completed ...=============================
If you wish to use this tool then the program .EXE file is attached below in Zip compressed format. You should decompress the file and place the .EXE in a suitable place. I have a FreeBasic Tools directory in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\FreeBASIC Tools' and I store it there - but it can be stored anywhere as long as you tell the FireFly 'Tools' 'Edit User Tools' menu. See attached FB2.JPG for a screenshot of how to set it up. In the this screenshot - the line
'<R>_<P>_compilelog.txt 1 2 120'
is interpreted to mean: display 1 line of code before the error line, 2 lines of code after the error line and truncate the ShowERRS.TXT file lines at 120 characters wide. If the latter is set to 0 then the file will not be truncated. You can set these parameters to whatever you want. It is also set so that CTRL-L initiates the display.
I currently use the 32 bit version of FreeBasic - so ShowERRS may need a bit of tweaking to support the 64 bit - but I am happy to sort that out.
I hope somebody finds it useful - any positive feedback is always welcome.
Regards
Barry
Thanks Barry! Ever since you shared this tool with me a few weeks ago I use it almost daily. It is very useful and I encourage all new FireFly FreeBASIC users to try it out.