RE: PDM user option for WDSC LPEX editor

Joe, Dave, and Rick,

What's wrong with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-I ??  It presents a
dialog box "Open Member in Editor" that allows you to quickly type library,
file and member to open.  Also provides a space for the connection.  All
selection boxes default to the values last used.  In fact, the cursor starts
in the member field so if you don't even need to tab down to it if the
member you want is in the same file as the last.


Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:20 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: PDM user option for WDSC LPEX editor
> 
> 
> I sympathize with you and Dave, Rick.  I'm lucky in that I type
> relatively fast so moving back and forth from keyboard to mouse is not
> as much of an issue, but I still to this day get frustrated with an
> interface that forces me to the mouse too often.
> 
> That being said, how often do you open new members?  Yeah, I 
> know it's a
> bit of a pain, but it's just not painful enough for me to get upset
> about.  Maybe it's because I use WDSC so much and I'm used to doing
> things with the mouse.  The more I use WDSC, the more I use the mouse,
> especially for cutting and pasting and moving things around.
> 
> All that being said, how about a little popup?  (I'm not saying this
> could be done, but let's brainstorm.)  You could assign the popup to
> Ctrl-O.  The popup would prompt for library, file and member and would
> open it.  It could default to the last values, and not only 
> that, if it
> senses something in the clipboard buffer, it would paste that into the
> member name.  That way, if you were to open multiple members from the
> same source file, you'd only have to mark the member name and copy it
> into the clipboard, then switch to WDSC and hit Ctrl-O.
> 
> Next, somewhere along the line, someone could create a 
> sockets listener
> that would wait for a request from the host and would invoke 
> the member
> opener by sending the appropriate values.
> 
> Joe
> 
>