Progress dialog

Progress dialog

The Progress Dialog shows messages indicating what happened during the making of a concordance.

It appears automatically if needed while a concordance is being made. It can be viewed later (to see again the messages from the last making of a concordance) by choosing 'Progress of last run' on the View menu.

By default the Progress dialog shows all messages, including important warnings and less important information such as the time taken to make a concordance. You can choose instead to see only the important warnings (in which case the Progress dialog will not pop up to bother you unnecessarily.) To do this, go to the Tools menu, choose Preferences, click the User Interface tab, and under 'Show Progress Messages and Warnings', select 'High Priority only'.

It is worth paying close attention to any warnings which appear:

Warnings about unrecognised characters:

These warnings occur if you have chosen not to add unrecognised characters to the Alphabet. You can use this to find which characters appear in your text but are not in your Alphabet. The warning will include the line number in your text so you can alter the source text instead if the character should not be there.

Warnings about references not closed:

These warnings occur if you have an opening reference marker but no closing reference marker on the same line. This is an error. The warning will include the line number in your text so you can fix it. See References for more information.