Re: build error messages

Hello Mike

I've created an issue for it:
http://tasklist.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35248

--Tim

Mike Skells wrote:

>Excellent!
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>I never saw the readme, as I installed it from the ZIP in the web site,
>and I cant find the readme on me machine (via netbeans anyway). Maybe
>this should be a feature of netbeans, to see the readme off the module,
>or in a menu in the help system
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>I think that this information should be in the tasklist help file as
>well though, 
>At least that is where I went first ;-)
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>I presume that you are planning that this feature will be invoked when
>the tasklist module is active, without manual edit
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>Mike
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tim Lebedkov [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>Sent: Thursday 31 July 2003 18:36
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [tasklist] build error messages
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>>Hello Mike,
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>>die you read the README? 
>>http://tasklist.netbeans.org/source/browse/tasklist/compiler/R
>>EADME?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
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>>Here is the content of the file:
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>>How to achieve better results with Build Errors view:
>>1. Do not use treefs module (View over a Filesystem)
>>2. Use External compilation with javac 
>>   - open options dialog: Global menu/Tools/Options
>>   - go to the Options/Editing/Java Sources node 
>>     and edit the property Default Compiler
>>3. Change regular expression for javac:
>>   - open options dialog: Global menu/Tools/Options
>>   - go to the Options/Building/Compiler Types/External 
>>Compilation node 
>>     and edit the property Error Expression
>>   - in the opened dialog change the name of the error expression to
>>     "Better Sun javac"
>>   - create a new Error Expression with "Add" 
>>   - change the text in the field "Error expression" to 
>>     ^(.+):([0-9]+): ([^\x5e]+\x5e)[\n\r]*
>>   - press "Change"
>>
>>--Tim
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>>Mike Skells wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>when I use the build error tab sometime the messages are less useful
>>>than they could be
>>> 
>>>for example when a error is 'cannot resolve symbol' the 
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>>symbol name is
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>>>not displayed. With the build error module deactivated then this is 
>>>displayed in the next line as 'symbol : xyz
>>> 
>>>on the suggestions view the display contains the the details as if
>>>taken from the other lines
>>> 
>>>As a seperate point, the column number reported is incorrect, it
>>>always reports 1. I presume that thhis is taken from the 
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>>[<line>:<col>] format in the error message.
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>>>could this be parsed from the location of the '^' in the 
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>>error message 
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>>>as this gives the actual location of the error.
>>>This would mean that when you goto the source then the curser is in 
>>>the right place
>>>It would be good to fix the javac compiler to output the correct 
>>>column number but I guess that would take a while longer!
>>> 
>>>Mike
>>> 
>>> 
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