The Progress window

When you build a project (e.g. if you click the Build button to start compiling), MULTI opens a Progress window. This window displays information about the progress of the build, as well as any errors or warnings.

To control exactly what information is displayed, use the Build Panel (see "Build Panel").

In addition to the normal editor buttons, the progress window has a Halt button while building. This button changes to a Next Error button when the build finishes.

The Next Error button is only present if you have either halted or after the build process has completed. It allows you to quickly edit the source files which generated errors. If any errors occurred during compilation of a source file, then pressing this button edits the file in which the error was detected in a new editor window, with the line containing the error highlighted. Pressing the button again will do the same things, but for the next error in the build.

The Halt button is only present during the build. If the Halt button is pressed, then the build stops.

Another way to quickly edit errors is to double click the line in the progress window where the error message was reported. This will edit the source file which generated the error and highlight the line on which the error occurred. For example, double clicking an error message such as:

"far.c", line 6: expected: ";" got: return

opens a new editor window displaying the source of far.c with line 6 highlighted.


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