Proparse Readme

Version 3.1c02

What is Proparse?

Proparse is a dynamic linked library which parses Progress 4GL source code. It is packaged with a few tools and examples to show how you can access its API via programs written in the 4GL.

How to contact us

www.joanju.com/proparse/ is where you can find executable builds (downloads) for Windows and a few other platforms.

www.oehive.org/proparse/ is where you can find the open source project.

Proparse is free and it is an open source project, but Joanju does provide commercial services. Please visit www.joanju.com.

Email List

In addition to the project issues list and forums on oehive.org, there is a Proparse list on the Progress Email Group. You can find the Proparse mailing list on the subscriptions page at www.peg.com.

Quick Start

Simple Demonstration

Depending on how you have Progress set up on your computer, you should be able to double-click on try_me.p to pull it up in the Progress Procedure Editor, then run it. It has a few message dialogs to explain what it is up to.

Test Run

Assuming that Proparse can be found within your PROPATH, you can do a simple test run to validate that Proparse is able to parse your source code without error. From your development environment (databases connected, PROPATH set, etc), simply RUN proparse/launcher.w.
(Note: If any of your programs use database alias names, then you must first tell Proparse about those - otherwise there will be parse errors. See: Database Alias Names )

Great. What use is this?

There are many types of tools that will be built based on proparse.dll. Here's a few: We will provide as many open source tools and examples as we can. A few examples are included with Proparse.

Prolint

The biggest project using Proparse that we are aware of is Prolint, a open-source lint for Progress source code. Lint tools warn you about things in your source code that your probably didn't mean to do, like define a variable and never use it. Jurjen Dijkstra is the initiating author and manages all contributions. Prolint can be found at: www.prolint.org.

Issues

Proparse should be able to work with most of your source code without error. Please let us know if you find something that Progress can compile but Proparse can't parse, and we'll fix it right away.

License

Proparse is released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License, version 1.0. www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html