Configure the Plug-in

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Configure the Workbench

The Plug-in uses an existing ProvideX installation for the executable file that is needed to run the ProvideX Event Manager. The Event Manager is one of the components of the Plug-in that listens for events triggered by actions made in the Eclipse Workbench. These events are communicated to the Event Manager through a TCP/IP connection similar to a NTHOST/NTSLAVE connection that is used in a ProvideX Thin Client environment.

The information required to identify this executable and the port to be used for the communications is configured on the ProvideX Preferences page.

Capture Debug Information

Environment variables used to enable capture of debug information:

PP4E_CT_DEBUG

Start-up for Contributed tools; log file name will be similar to pp4e_CT-Debug-*.txt

PP4E_SC_DEBUG

StyleCheck tool; log file name will be similar to pp4e_SC-*.txt

PP4E_PVXIDE_DEBUG

ProvideX Event Manager; log file name will be similar to pp4e_IDE-*.txt

PP4E_PVXHOST_DEBUG

ProvideX Host debug messages; log file name will be similar to pp4e_Host-*.txt

PP4E_PVXHOST_SHOW

Show the ProvideX Host session on a MS-Windows machine

PP4E_PVXHOST_TRACE

Trace of connection process in PvxHost; log file name will be similar to pp4e_Host-*.txt

The files will be placed into a folder identified by the environment variable TMP or TEMP.

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