The Annotations page () of the Editor preferences lets you maintain a list of stored annotations that you can insert into ABL source files.
The page includes the following options:
| Annotation names | Lists all stored annotation templates. This list appears in the
Adding annotations to source filesAdd Annotation wizard. To browse through long lists, select a template and then drag the cursor up or down. |
| Annotation text | Displays the text of the selected template. A template can
include more than one annotation. Note: The templates
that ship with the Annotation Generator contain two specially
coded preprocessors, %FILENAME% and
%MODULE%. %FILENAME%
expands to the file name, including the extension.
%MODULE% expands to the name of the
directory where the file is stored. These are the only
preprocessors the tool can expand. The tool does not support
customer-created preprocessors.
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| Add | Launches the New Annotation dialog. Note: The New Annotation dialog does
not check the syntax of the template you create.
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| Edit | Launches the Edit Annotation dialog for the
selected annotation. Note: The Edit
Annotation dialog does not check the syntax of
the template you create.
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| Remove | Removes the selected template from the internal template list. If you have exported your templates to a file, the template can be recovered by importing that file. |
| Import | Overwrites the current annotation templates with the contents of an external .dat file. |
| Export | Saves the current annotation templates to an external .dat file. |
Apply stores your changes to the current workspace configuration. Restore Defaults resets the preferences to the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge defaults.