Building projects is quite the same as compiling just a file. The only difference is that you can compile more files at once. This means relaxation for you! You can compile more files at once by just ONE single click! Or by selecting it in the main menu under Project > Build 'Project filename', clicking the build button on the tool bar or just by hitting F9.
Building projects is as you can see really easy. In figure 37 you can see me building the complete SCC-Blaffer NT tracker (at least the binaries). I've chosen to show Blaffer NT here because it just has some more binaries than just the replayer. I can show the building of projects better with this project. I was quite astonished myself too, in CA2 I had to search the right file and hit the compile button and that for every file. This project has about 15 files with 5 of them to be compiled. And with just one key (F9) I rebuilt the COMPLETE product (at least the binaries).
Figure 37. Building a project
As you can see here, CA3 is busy building the active project. It goes SO fast that only one second elapsed and already 2 files are compiled! OKay, you see three different icons. The first two indicate that the file is compiled and it also successfully is compiled. You can also see that at the error column. You can see no errors occurred due to the [none] caption.
The third file is the file that is being compiled at the moment. You can see that by looking at the blue bar and the 'compile' icon...
The fourth and fifth file are still waiting to be compiled. You can see that by looking at the icon which has a question mark (?) in it. The three [N/A] captions indicate that the error count is not yet available. Only for files that have been compiled completely the error count will be available (as you can see by looking at the figure).
Another difference of building a project is that when one or more files that were compiled had errors, the window will not close automatically. This is done to give you an overview which files had how many errors (again: Readability). Figure 38 shows that.
Figure 38. Build failed!
As you can see here, the build failed. I've created some errors in the two source files. In totality I've created 8 errors as you can see in the window. You also might notice the 'Cancel' button has changed to an 'OK' button. This is because the window doesn't close automatically, as was the story when building a project succeeds or when you compile just one file.
Click 'OK' to close this window. After that there are enough possibilities to view the errors per file or altogether, as shown in the view menu topic of the main menu chapter.