Message pane

Jalopy displays all runtime messages in the message pane. Messages are shown in a tree control, with each branch containing the messages for a specific file, and individual messages displayed as leafs. File messages show the number of leaves and the warning and error count.

The message types are differentiated with icons and by color: Errors are red with an error icon, warnings are shown in blue and display a warning sign, informational messages are black and carry a file icon and debugging messages are black and prepended by a bug icon.

Figure 8.5. Jalopy Message pane

Jalopy Message pane

Clicking on a file name will open that file, clicking on a message that contains location information will open the file containing the message and move the caret to the nomimated location.

Figure 8.6. Jalopy Message pane context menu

Jalopy Message pane context menu

The window provides a context menu with some useful actions.