OpenEdge ABL 4GL support for Sublime Text 3

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Building

• Linux: Run /build.sh in the root directory
• Windows: Open to pull request for bat file :)

Installing or modifying

1. Close Sublime Text if necessary
2. Locate the data directory of Sublime Text 3 :
   • On Windows, it is located in %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3
   • On Linux, it is located in ~/.config/sublime-text-3
   • On OS X, it is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3
3. In the data directory, place the package OpenEdge ABL.sublime-package in the Installed Packages directory.
4. In the data directory (but in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Sublime Text 3 in Windows!), delete the Cache/OpenEdge ABL directory
5. Restart Sublime Text
6. You may need to open each progress file type (.p, .cls, .i, .w...) and associate them with the new syntax scheme: View > Syntax > Open all with current extension as... > OpenEdge ABL

AppBuild Color Theme

1. Preferences > Color Scheme... > OpenEdge AppBuilder

"Check Syntax,Compile,Run" support with auto capitalization of keywords

It is possible to get the "Check Syntax,Compile,Run,Run GUI/CHUI" feature of OpenEdge working in Sublime Text. To do so, you can follow these steps :

1. Makes sure you have saved your project, this creates a <project_name>.sublime-project
2. In this file create an abl json node in the settings node with the following options

  {
    "folders":
    [
      {
        "path": "."
      }
    ],
    "settings":
    {
      "abl":
      {
        "dlc": "/path/to/dlc",
        "hooks":  
        {
          "pre": "hooks/pre.p",
          "post": "hooks/post.p"
        },
        "pf": "conf/sublime.pf",
        "propath":
        [
          "src/module1",
          "src/module2"
        ],
        "db": [
          "-db /path/to/db -ld somedb -1",
          "-db /path/to/db2 -ld somedb2 -1"
        ],
        "uppercase_keywords": true
      }
    }
  }

Options

• dlc: Path to your DLC. If not provided this will be resolved from the system DLC environment variable.
• hooks.pre Fired after the propath node has been set and before the desired actions run, check_syntax, etc...
• hooks.post Fired after the desired actions run, check_syntax, etc...
• pf PF file for the progress session
• propath Sets the propath in the progress session
• db List of DB connections
• uppercase_keywords This will uppercase the OpenEdge ABL keywords as you type

3. Hitting CTRL + SHIFT + B will give you a list

• ABL : checks syntax
• ABL - Check Syntax : checks syntax
• ABL - Compile : compiles
• ABL - Run Batch : runs code in an _progres -b session and returns messages to the sublime console
• ABL - Run GUI/CHUI : runs the code in an prowin/32.exe or _progres session

3. You can now repeat your last choice by hitting CTRL + B

Notes

This product is not supported by Progress.