Code Warnings Tool

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The Code Warnings tool in the Tools menu lists all the warnings found on the current editor. Clicking on warnings or pressing the Enter key in the list navigates to that warning in the editor, highlighting it briefly with a callout, as configured from the Editor > Callouts preferences group.

Disabling Warnings

The Code Warnings tool is also used to selectively disable warnings.

Individual warnings may be disabled by clicking on the red X that appears while moving the mouse cursor over warnings in the Code Warnings tool, or by selecting an item and pressing the Delete key. When this is done, Wing disables most individual warnings only for the scope it appears in. However, undefined attribute warnings are always disabled in all files.

The right-click context menu on the Code Warnings tool may be used to specify how widely to disable a warning, either only one specific case, all warnings of that type in the file, or all warnings of that type in all files.

For external checkers, warnings disabled by clicking the red X or pressing Delete are hidden globally by type. Note, however, that Wing does this without altering the external checker's regular configuration file. Editing the configuration for the external checker directly, as documented by the external checker, is another way to ignore some of its errors and warnings.

Configuration: Disabled Warnings

When a warning is disabled, Wing adds a rule to the Configuration: Disabled Warnings page in the drop-down menu at the top of the Code Warnings tool.

Rules are organized into those defined for the current file and those defined for any file. Configuration rules may be dragged between these two groups. Rules may be deleted by clicking on the red X that appears while moving the mouse cursor over the items, or by selecting them and pressing the Delete key.

Rules may be edited from the right-click context menu, in order to disable a broader or narrower set of warnings. For example, a rule to disable a specific undefined attribute warning can be changed to disable all undefined attribute warnings for the class by changing the Attribute Name field from .attribute to .*.

Configuration: Defaults

The types of code warnings that Wing shows can be configured from the Configuration: Defaults page in the drop-down menu at the top of the Code Warnings tool. The warnings types Wing supports are documented in Warning Types and some of the warning types offer configuration options to control which variants of that type of warning will be shown.

Sharing Configurations

The current code warnings configuration may be exported to the user settings area, or to a selected file from the Options menu in the Code Warnings tool. Projects may then share the configuration through the Use Configuration From item in the Code Warnings tool's Options menu.

When the code warnings configuration is stored in user settings, it is written to a file named code-warnings.conf in the User Settings Directory.

When the code warnings configuration is stored to another file, it may be checked into revision control along with the .wpr file. The choice of which external configuration file is used is stored in the .wpr file so all users of that project will use the same code warnings configuration. Wing will be able to find the shared configuration as long as the relative path between the project and the configuration file remains the same.

Clearing the Configuration

The code warnings configuration may be reset to blank with the Clear Configuration item in the Code Warnings tool's Options menu.