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J-Prolog Editor 1.1
1. Introduction 2. Installation / Starting 3. GUI Overview 4. Configuration 5. Further Information
1. Introduction
"J-Prolog Editor" is an editor for preferably SWI-Prolog providing syntax highlighting, an embedded Prolog interpreter and other features.
2. Installation / Starting
A usual installation is not necessary. You can start the editor out of the jar archive (recommend) or unpack it and use the file "PrologEditor.class". Because "J-Prolog Editor" is a Java application the "Java Runtime Environment" is needed. Finally there are several different ways to run the editor:
- You can link jar files with the program "javaw" from the "bin" directory. If this has been done, start the editor per double click
- (Platform independently) You can use the Java interpreter "javaw" (or "java") with parameters: "-jar %PATH%JPrologEditor.jar". Replace "%PATH%" with the actual path
- If the archive was unpacked, you can use almost the same method as above without parameter "-jar". In addition, replace "JPrologEditor.jar" with "PrologEditor"
If you start "J-Prolog Editor" for the first time your operating system is determined. Windows systems use the intepreter "plcon" and Linux systems "pl". If the dialog below appears your operating system was not detected correctly and you must choose the right one manually :
In case of a correct configured class path variable the program will be started, else the following window appears:
In this case, the path has to be adjusted in the program configuration.
3. GUI Overview
1. Editor for Prolog files
2. SWI-Prolog interpreter
3. Prolog command bar
4. Consults the opened file
5. Quick selection for syntax highlighting
4. Configuration
The configuration covers the following registers:
- Miscellaneous
Besides the language, you can coose the Prolog- and Source-Directory - Formatting
Font and font size adjustments of Prolog and the Editor - Highlighting
Syntax highlighting can be (de-)activated in this section. The highlighting elements can be adjusted as well - Commands
The two free Prolog command places can be occupied here (a dot at the end will be added automatically)