Re: PDM user option for WDSC LPEX editor

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles, 

I didn't know about this.  This could be exactly what I'm looking for
- i'll check it out.

Rick

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:11:13 -0500, cwilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<cwilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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