Describes the installation and usage of the Jalopy IDEA Plug-in.
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Explains the steps involved to install the IDEA Plug-in.
This Plug-in requires IDEA 3.0 or higher. See the section called "System requirements" for the basic requirements to run Jalopy.
The Plug-in comes as an executable Jar Archive (Jar) that contains a graphical setup wizard to let you easily install the software. Wizard installation is recommended and explained in detail in the section called "Wizard Installation".
If you would rather install the Plug-in manually, you have to decompress and copy the appropriate files into the different application folders. To decompress the contents of the installer Jar, you can either use the Jar tool that ships with your Java distribution or any other software that can handle the ZIP compression format (e.g. 7Zip or WinZip).
If you're upgrading from a prior version and want to keep your settings, first copy or rename the current Jalopy settings directory to match the version number of the new release. For instance, if your current settings directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\John Doo\.jalopy\1.0.4" and you're about to install Jalopy Help, either copy the directory contents or rename it to "C:\Documents and Settings\.jalopy\John Doo\Help". Wizard installation can perform this step automatically.
Make sure IDEA is not running and remove any present Jalopy files in your IDEA Plugin folder. The IDEA Plugin folder is located in the root directory of your IDEA installation, e.g. C:\Program Files\IDEA\plugins. Check for a jalopy/lib subdirectory. If it exists, delete its contents. Otherwise create it.
Then copy the two Jar files jalopy-Help.jar and jalopy-idea-Help.jar into this plugins/jalopy/lib folder.
Jalopy displays all runtime messages in its own tool window. 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.
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.
The window provides a context menu with some useful actions.
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Copy
Copies the textual contents of the selected messages into the System clipboard. If a message contains children, the contents of all children are copied as well.
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Clear
Removes all selected messages.
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Clear All
Removes all messages currently being displayed in the window.
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Select All
Selects all messages currently being displayed in the window.