Progress
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About the Procedure Editor
The Procedure Editor is a text editor that allows you to enter, edit, and save text in text files. The Procedure Editor is your hub for most programming tasks in the Progress toolset. You can use the Procedure Editor to create, compile, and run Progress procedures. A procedure is a series of Progress language statements that perform a desired data processing task. Figure 2–2 shows the Procedure Editor main display.
Figure 2–2: Procedure Editor Main Display
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The main display of the Procedure Editor contains several features:
- Title bar —Shows the name of the current edit buffer. An edit buffer is a temporary work area for procedures under construction in the Procedure Editor. The Procedure Editor allows you to have several buffers open simultaneously. If a buffer has no name assigned, it appears as “Untitled” followed by a number to make the name unique (for example, Untitled:1).
- Menu bar — Allows you to access and execute tasks. Each item on the menu bar is a menu title. A menu provides access to menu options. Menu options perform tasks.
- Insertion point — Marks the location where text appears when you start typing.
- Procedure area — The visible part of the current edit buffer. This is where you type and edit Progress procedures.
- Status area — The one line panel at the bottom of the window where Progress displays helpful information for the user.
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