The Messages window (shown in the following figure) displays design and report messages, which are grouped to enable you to locate messages from different tools or processes. Messages display with a link to the relevant object or source file. To open the Messages window, select . You can use the check boxes in the banner of the Messages window to hide or display the errors, critical warnings, warnings, info, and status messages. If the status messages have been suppressed, the Tcl console does not update. The commands entered either by the user or its output do not display in the Tcl console, but the vivado.log file continues to update.
Note: If the location of a source file
changes, the Vivado IDE removes the link from related messages to
prevent confusion.
Tip: To see only one message type,
double-click the message type in the banner of the Messages window. For example, double-click errors to display only error messages. Using the
-count option displays the number of messages matching either
-id or -severity that have been displayed. It
resets when certain commands are executed. For example, to get the message count for
critical warnings, use the get_msg_config -count -severity
{CRITICAL WARNING} Tcl command.Video: For an overview of the
Messages window, including
information on reviewing critical messages, cross probing design objects, adjusting
message severity, and suppressing messages, see the Vivado Design Suite QuickTake Video: Understanding
Messaging.
Figure 1.
Messages Window
