RE: Just installed 5.1 -- WDSCI-L

The outline view on my PC usually refreshes in about a second so I do not
find it unacceptable.  Would it be great if it just did it automatically
and was always up to date?  Sure.  Unless the process of doing those
updates further slows down an editor that already could stand to be faster.
I think the current situation is an acceptable tradeoff.

It isn't completely fair to compare the Java editor with the RPG editor.
The Java language, and runtime has a lot of these features built in with
its reflection and introspection API's.    With RPG it is up to IBM to
constantly parse the source code and I just do not think it as easy as with
Java.

I have played with the Eclipse C/C++ editor, which tries to emulate the
Java editor, and it also has a long way to go for similar reasons.
Likewise, even in Microsoft's Visual Studio the features you get when
editing C/C++ are nowhere near what you got when editing Visual Basic, and
that IDE is on its 7th major version over a span of 10 years.

Anyway, I am happy with the current state of the tools, but yes there will
always be room for improvements.  Perhaps they could at least tie in
updating the outline view with things like the new Create Procedure Wizard
since that should be able to tell the outline a new procedure was created.
Personally, I would prefer to see them let you do more with the outline
view, such as show all occurrences for a variable or indicator, or maybe do
some drag and drop from the outline to the editor, although that would
probably just be a gee-whiz feature.

Mark




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I say one thing then type another. . . I must be losing it :-)  I meant to
say Ctl + Space, but that still doesn't produce the selection drop down
like
I had with 5.0.  I have the Outline window open and refreshed (I did it on
a
much smaller member because it just hangs with large members).

I was hoping the Outline would automatically update itself like it does in
Sun's IDE :SunOne (Forte).  I will be losing more time by doing refreshes
than just going to the top of my code to see how I spelt a variable or sub
proc.  Does anybody else besides me find this as unacceptable?  Usually the
first thing I do after creating a sub procedure is use it somewhere else in
my code.

Aaron Bartell

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Aaron,

As Jon indicated it is Ctrl-Space not Ctrl-Enter.  Also, you do not mention
it, so I will ask, do you have the Outline view refreshed?  The feature
only works if the outline view is populated.

Mark



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Hi all,

I just installed 5.1 with seamless ease and migration from 5.0(thanks for
that!).  I have come across my first problem:-)  When I first open WDSc 5.1
I don't have it connecting to my iSeries, but I do have it retain the state
of my environment (all of my RPG source members are open as I left them).
In 5.0 I could immediately start editing the source members without having
to connect, and when I saved it the connection would automatically happen.
With 5.1 if I don't connect to my iSeries manually before I do a save on my
source member it just sits there locked stating that it is connecting to my
iSeries, but after 3 minutes nothing has happened (usually takes 5 - 8
seconds).

I tried clicking the "Cancel current process" red square beside the
scrolling "Working on something" indicator at the bottom of the screen.  It
just sits there and hangs. . . Same is true if I try to do an Outline on a
2000+ line source member (99% is sub procs).


Just like Mike Wills I also cannot seem to get Code Assist to work for
variables or bifs.  I type in % and then Ctl + Enter and nothing happens.
I
looked through the LPex editor settings and didn't see anything in there.

Any suggestions?

**Note** I don't have all of the "Missing PTF's" installed yet being that I
just installed this last night.

Aaron Bartell

p.s. WDSc 5.1 does start faster and I thank you for that!
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