Re: PDM user option for WDSC LPEX editor

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

This is probably not the right forum, but I agree with dave.  the
issue of opening a member using the explorer via the mouse is major
issue I have with wdsc.

I absolutely hate reaching for my mouse when i'm coding.  It's the
single biggest hurdle I've found to using it.  I know there are some
shortcuts, but they invariably involve the mouse eventually.  I can
type a source member name faster than I can reach for my mouse, study
the screen click some plus signs, scroll and double click.  I know pdm
so well, I don't even have to look at the screen half the time.

Oh well,  I'm still trying to get used to it.  maybe it will get better.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:57:53 -0600, Joe Pluta
<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I don't remember where I read it but I had set up the following PDM
> > options to launch CODE and Code/Designer.  I have recently loaded
> > the latest version of WDSC and would like to add an option for the
> > LPEX editor.  Is this possible?
> 
> Even if this were possible, do you really want to do this?  Given the
> fact that the startup time for WDSC is often measured in tens of seconds
> (or longer!), do you really want to fire up WDSC each time you want to
> edit a member?
> 
> Far easier, I think, would be to simply have WDSC always running on your
> workstation and then open the member using the table view, which has
> been mentioned many times in the WDSC mailing list (which is probably a
> more appropriate place for this discussion).
> 
> Now if you were really insane and wanted to start a serious learning
> project, you might think about creating a WDSC plug-in that would listen
> to a socket or a data queue on the host and when a source member was
> popped in there, automatically open that source member in the workbench.
> I haven't a clue as to how hard it would be, but by the time you were
> done you would be an EXPERT at all things WDSC <grin>.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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