I've seen the same issue. It is not repeatable, and sometimes not noticed until it comes to compile... and there might be times where it sneaked through even further. I don't see the problem as often as Mark says he does - maybe once or twice a week, or so. I don't take any effort to "fix" the environment as the problem just doesn't happen again while I am looking for it.
I think it is related to a quick change to an existing line - put the cursor at the end of the line, with the mouse, and type something. The first character you pressed might be at the end of the word you've just typed (cursor stepped backwards after the first character was typed). Or, sometimes it's more like Mark describes where the character after where you wanted to insert a word ends up before the word you typed (cursor stepped forward before you've finished pressing the first key?). If I remember correctly, it is always after I position the cursor with the mouse, but not always.
Perhaps I should just slow down my typing and watch each keypress? ;) Yes - Even though I can type fast, I have to watch the keyboard instead of the screen.
-Paul.
-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Hockings
Sent: 14 August 2015 15:01
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Fw: RDi stops responding during interactive debug
Hmmm, that typing behaviour sounds suspicious. Have you tried closing all
your edit sessions and clearing the cache? However it may very well be
due to some bad characters in the file causing the character position in the data not line up with the visual character position. Could it be that
this file has been edited locally with a PC editor at some point? I would
look on the affected line(s) for characters that are not displayed.
Mike
Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
IBM Rational Developer for System z and Power Systems Software Technical Support IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory hockings@xxxxxxxxxx
From: "Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc."
<mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2015-08-14 08:16
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Fw: RDi stops responding during interactive debug
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I have noticed it, and just written it off to flakiness of RDi. There are several little things that bug me, but not enough to complain about it, and also because it is so hard for me to open a PMR. I sometimes can see the values popup, and sometimes can't. If a data structure has anonymous fields in it, the values display properly in the monitor view when the DS is added, but as soon as a value in the DS changes, everything below the first anonymous field is wrong. Monitor and Variables views get confused with
scope: Variables does not always contain all "in-scope" variables, and Monitor sometimes looses track of global variables. On the plus side, if a DS with anonymous fields does appear in the variables view, all fields have the correct value, even after changes.
Apart from the debugger, there is other flakiness. Sometimes when typing after moving the cursor, the cursor skips two positions after the first character is typed. So if I have something like CHAIN RRN RECORD;, and I want to put a data structure in there after the record name, I position the cursor to just before the ';', and type ' DSNAME'. Sometimes it works properly and I end up with CHAIN RRN RECORD DSNAME;, but sometimes I get this CHAIN RRN RECORD ;DSNAME. It is relatively frequent, maybe a dozen times a day. I would like to blame my keyboard or fat fingers on this, but RDi is the only application this happens with, and it only happens after the first character typed.
I am using Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit, RDi 9.1.1.1
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/13/2015 05:01PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Fw: RDi stops responding during interactive debug
On 8/13/2015 3:51 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
I really appreciate this example. I have forwarded it to the debugger
developer and he said:
"Happy to help but currently working on a critsit at the moment and
other PMRs waiting on the queue. Either this should be raised as a
PMR, if
that's
not possible we can at least raise a defect. That way it won't get
lost
in
my inbox. What would you rather do? "
Sorry Edmund - I wasn't intending to report this /here/ as a defect. I was hoping to get some consensus on whether other RDi people are experiencing the same thing, preparatory to...
I am getting an internal defect opened but it will get more priority
if
it
comes from one of you guys.
...opening an official PMR. Which I shall do tomorrow after I clear my desk a bit :-)
--buck
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