RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic
Hi, I learned this little trick from Bill Thoen some years ago and it has proven very helpful. I also started opening the err file manually, but you don't have the go to on doubleclick when you just open the file. I'm not using TextPad but UltraEdit, but I guess the problem is the same. Using this method the text from the .err file is put into the output window of UltraEdit. I have a bat file, that I call from UltraEdit to compile a source file (and link a project file). At the end the bat file types the err file, if it exists: bat file start @Echo Off C:\MapBasic\MapBasic 8.0\Mapbasic.Exe -NOSPLASH -D %1.mb if exist %1.err type %1.err bat file end %1 is the name and path of the source file to compile. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 4908 Mob +45 5156 1045 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis For enden af regnbuen... - hvordan kommer man dertil og er det overhovedet muligt? Læs mere om årets MapInfo konference på www.cowi.dk/mapinfokonference -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Simpson Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:13 PM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic TextPad has a way of capturing output from a command-line tool, and parsing it to locate where the compiler said the error occurred. Unfortunately, MapBasic thwarts this capability, because the compiler always writes compilation errors to a file with an extension of .err, even when MapBasic is run from the command line. If there are no errors, there is no .err file. If the MapBasic compiler had a way to send errors to standard output instead of the .err file, you could capture the output in TextPad. But it doesn't, and MapInfo is unlikely to add this functionality. The best you can do is to open the .err file in TextPad after compilation is finished. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a way to make a TextPad tool perform two actions. TextPad's macro functionality appears to be limited to editing. So you'll have to make a DOS batch file like the following: @echo off if %1 == %2 goto link mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1 goto ckerr :link mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1 :ckerr if exist %3 C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\textpad %3 Save this in a file named MBTextPad.bat in the same directory as Mapbasic.exe. Then add a tool to TextPad (Configure-Preferences... Select tools on the right-hand side, then Add-Program...) that runs MBTextPad.bat. The parameters should be $FileName $BaseName.mbp $BaseName.err including all of the quotes. Make sure you have allow multiple instances unchecked in Configure-Preferences General or it will open the .err file in a separate instance. This method will even work for MapBasic source files whose names have spaces in them (TextPad is a little too helpful putting quotes around parameter values with spaces in them). Perhaps someone is willing to write a VBScript to make this a bit less clunky. HTH Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Greenwood Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:59 AM To: Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) Cc: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic On 7/26/06, Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keen MapBasic folk, We are investigating the use of TextPad as our editor for MapBasic. Does anyone have experience of this? I know that there is an add-on (on TextPad's website) containing all the key words etc, but does someone have a new version of this? Also, how can we get the error messages to appear, as they would in MapBasic? Thanks in advance, Tom I use Textpad all the time for MapBasic and numerous other languages. It's an excellent editor. I have not figured out how to get the error messages back. It has a mechanism for doing it with Java compilers, so it should be do-able. -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic
Gah -- forgot about type completely. This would turn the batch file for TextPad into @echo off if %1 == %2 goto link mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1 goto ckerr :link mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1 :ckerr if exist %3 type %3 We still need to specify the .err file explicitly in order to handle files with spaces in their names correctly, so the parameters are still $FileName $BaseName.mbp $BaseName.err You use the regular expression ^(\([^):]+\): *\([0-9]+\)) to parse output, register 1 for the file name, and register 2 for the line number. Works like a charm! Thanks Peter and Bill. Spencer -Original Message- From: Peter Horsbøll Møller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:00 AM To: Spencer Simpson; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic Hi, I learned this little trick from Bill Thoen some years ago and it has proven very helpful. I also started opening the err file manually, but you don't have the go to on doubleclick when you just open the file. I'm not using TextPad but UltraEdit, but I guess the problem is the same. Using this method the text from the .err file is put into the output window of UltraEdit. I have a bat file, that I call from UltraEdit to compile a source file (and link a project file). At the end the bat file types the err file, if it exists: bat file start @Echo Off C:\MapBasic\MapBasic 8.0\Mapbasic.Exe -NOSPLASH -D %1.mb if exist %1.err type %1.err bat file end %1 is the name and path of the source file to compile. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 4908 Mob +45 5156 1045 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis For enden af regnbuen... - hvordan kommer man dertil og er det overhovedet muligt? Læs mere om årets MapInfo konference på www.cowi.dk/mapinfokonference -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Simpson Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:13 PM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic TextPad has a way of capturing output from a command-line tool, and parsing it to locate where the compiler said the error occurred. Unfortunately, MapBasic thwarts this capability, because the compiler always writes compilation errors to a file with an extension of .err, even when MapBasic is run from the command line. If there are no errors, there is no .err file. If the MapBasic compiler had a way to send errors to standard output instead of the .err file, you could capture the output in TextPad. But it doesn't, and MapInfo is unlikely to add this functionality. The best you can do is to open the .err file in TextPad after compilation is finished. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a way to make a TextPad tool perform two actions. TextPad's macro functionality appears to be limited to editing. So you'll have to make a DOS batch file like the following: @echo off if %1 == %2 goto link mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1 goto ckerr :link mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1 :ckerr if exist %3 C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\textpad %3 Save this in a file named MBTextPad.bat in the same directory as Mapbasic.exe. Then add a tool to TextPad (Configure-Preferences... Select tools on the right-hand side, then Add-Program...) that runs MBTextPad.bat. The parameters should be $FileName $BaseName.mbp $BaseName.err including all of the quotes. Make sure you have allow multiple instances unchecked in Configure-Preferences General or it will open the .err file in a separate instance. This method will even work for MapBasic source files whose names have spaces in them (TextPad is a little too helpful putting quotes around parameter values with spaces in them). Perhaps someone is willing to write a VBScript to make this a bit less clunky. HTH Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Greenwood Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:59 AM To: Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) Cc: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic On 7/26/06, Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keen MapBasic folk, We are investigating the use of TextPad as our editor for MapBasic. Does anyone have experience of this? I know that there is an add-on (on TextPad's website) containing all the key words etc, but does someone have a new version of this? Also, how can we get the error messages to appear, as they would in MapBasic? Thanks in advance, Tom I use Textpad all the time for MapBasic and numerous other languages. It's an excellent editor. I have not figured out how to get the error messages back. It has a mechanism for doing it with Java compilers, so it should be do-able. -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com
Re: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic
On 7/26/06, Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keen MapBasic folk, We are investigating the use of TextPad as our editor for MapBasic. Does anyone have experience of this? I know that there is an add-on (on TextPad's website) containing all the key words etc, but does someone have a new version of this? Also, how can we get the error messages to appear, as they would in MapBasic? Thanks in advance, Tom I use Textpad all the time for MapBasic and numerous other languages. It's an excellent editor. I have not figured out how to get the error messages back. It has a mechanism for doing it with Java compilers, so it should be do-able. -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
RE: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic
TextPad has a way of capturing output from a command-line tool, and parsing it to locate where the compiler said the error occurred. Unfortunately, MapBasic thwarts this capability, because the compiler always writes compilation errors to a file with an extension of .err, even when MapBasic is run from the command line. If there are no errors, there is no .err file. If the MapBasic compiler had a way to send errors to standard output instead of the .err file, you could capture the output in TextPad. But it doesn't, and MapInfo is unlikely to add this functionality. The best you can do is to open the .err file in TextPad after compilation is finished. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a way to make a TextPad tool perform two actions. TextPad's macro functionality appears to be limited to editing. So you'll have to make a DOS batch file like the following: @echo off if %1 == %2 goto link mapbasic -Nosplash -D %1 goto ckerr :link mapbasic -Nosplash -L %1 :ckerr if exist %3 C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\textpad %3 Save this in a file named MBTextPad.bat in the same directory as Mapbasic.exe. Then add a tool to TextPad (Configure-Preferences... Select tools on the right-hand side, then Add-Program...) that runs MBTextPad.bat. The parameters should be $FileName $BaseName.mbp $BaseName.err including all of the quotes. Make sure you have allow multiple instances unchecked in Configure-Preferences General or it will open the .err file in a separate instance. This method will even work for MapBasic source files whose names have spaces in them (TextPad is a little too helpful putting quotes around parameter values with spaces in them). Perhaps someone is willing to write a VBScript to make this a bit less clunky. HTH Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Greenwood Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:59 AM To: Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) Cc: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] TextPad as editor for MapBasic On 7/26/06, Manson, Tom, VF UK - Technology (TS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keen MapBasic folk, We are investigating the use of TextPad as our editor for MapBasic. Does anyone have experience of this? I know that there is an add-on (on TextPad's website) containing all the key words etc, but does someone have a new version of this? Also, how can we get the error messages to appear, as they would in MapBasic? Thanks in advance, Tom I use Textpad all the time for MapBasic and numerous other languages. It's an excellent editor. I have not figured out how to get the error messages back. It has a mechanism for doing it with Java compilers, so it should be do-able. -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com ___ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
