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How about considering a rewite????
Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:20 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Customizing WDSC

"What I really want is to extend the editor and only have to push a couple
of buttons.  One to get the data, the other to output the formatted
records."

We raised the absence of a Rexx-type facility with IBM way back when the
first release of WDSC came out - but it has never happened and since we now
on V7 I doubt it ever will.  They have this weird notion that we'll program
the extensions in Java I guess!

I find the Outline view field list and or Table view good enough and simply
enter the code by hand but the other option I have used mught appeal to you.

I always use Snagit for my screen captures etc. and among other wonderful
features it has a text capture mode.  Really useful for grabbing the text so
you can report idiot error messages!  You could set Snagit up to do text
capture with clipboard output from a region.  Then when you hit Prt Sc (or
Ctrl+P) it brings up the bounding box, drag it round the fields you want and
paste them from the clipboard.  Not as nice as a macro I know but at least
you'd have a product that was useful in other ways!

Of course one of the java literate folks like Joe or Aaron might also
volunteer to magically produce a plug-in ...

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com 


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