Re: User space editor in iSphere - get "No editor selected" error

Thx paul - you got it - part of my confusion is, if I right-click a user space, it gives me 2 options - iSphere User Space Monitor and iSphere User Space Editor. I would never have thought to look at Data Spaces in the help.

The help does say this - "From a programmer's point of view, both objects are very similar; essentially each is a string of bytes"

Then there's this designer to make an "editor" that breaks out the various values, "fields", etc.

All that seems good - I've not made it work for what I want yet.

I am confused that there IS a separate data area section in the help - but I've used this and like it - it is like CHGDTAARA but the original value is displayed, which the command does not do. No "editor" is needed for this, to break up the value into its "format". I DO have examples where having that format would be useful.

I haven't got this far - but it seems one must "assign" an editor to each specific object. I hope that's not true, but it looks that way. Maybe that's OK for some stuff, not sure if it aligns with change management tools, though - just asking.

I really want something like EDTF and DSPF for use spaces - see, I do NOT see data areas and user spaces as being the same "...from a programmer's point of view..." - at least, not all the time.

So if I have not specified a layout - and this is NOT practical with many of the APIs, due to varying lengths and all manner of offsets and lists that vary in number - I want to have the ability to simply work with the entire contents - and handle bytes that are not displayable - the stuff before x'40', for example.

I look forward to future develoopments in this arena - hope my thoughts are helpful!

Vern

On 6/12/2015 1:52 PM, paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Aren't user spaces and data areas called 'data spaces' in iSphere?
I don't have iSphere installed, but I did some light reading last night.

Paul Therrien
Andeco Software, LLC
225-229-2491
paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.andecosoftware.com

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Subject: [WDSCI-L] User space editor in iSphere - get "No editor selected"
error

I have the latest version 25 installed and tried the user space editor.

I get a window showing the type (*CHAR), length, and description, then a
rectangular area with this text in it -

No editor selected. Cannot display any data.

I have assumed that the message is an Eclipse thing, so googled for that
text and haven't found anything useful in my short search.

And the help for v26 does not mention this editor - and nothing obvious in
Preferences.

I tried adding a file type of *.usrspc and associating the Eclipse text
editor with it - no luck.

Thoughts, anyone?

Thx
Vern
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