Re: query updateProfile.baseProfile says seu?!

Hi Buck,

When you use LPEX via RSE, you are not really using LPEX (also refered to
as base LPEX), but Remote Systems LPEX Editor.
This is an editor which extends LPEX in numerous ways.
One way in particular is that when Remote Systems LPEX Editor detects
sequence numbers (as it would when editing a member) it switches the
profile of LPEX to the SEU profile (nothing to do with source type)
Another thing it does (in V7.0 that is) is put up a compile menu and
compile related buttons (compile, next/previous error).  Previously that
had been controlled by the parsers, but it made more sense for it to be at
the editor level.

You can refer to eclipse documentation as to how a plugin is enabled and I
would refer you to the documentation for LPEX, RSE (and RS LPEX) for
information of the classes within and how you can extend them.
As for source code, iSeries code is not open source, so you won't be able
to see the source for the ILE RPG parser.

hope that helps!

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/16/2007 12:09:19 PM:

Bob's questions spurred me to start looking at writing my own profile.
Of course I can't find the darned page with the tutorial but I think I'm
close.  Anyway, I'm writing queries at the moment so I don't blow
anything up.  I was a bit surprised to find that query
updateProfile.baseProfile tells me that I'm using the seu profile with
an RPGLE source member open.

When I go to Window, Preferences, Lpex editor, I can see that I'm set to
use the lpex profile.  I don't think I really care one way or the other
aside from the fact that I don't understand how the thing is put
together.  I sort of think that I'd want to have some sort of
understanding before I go tinkering...

Am I right that WDSC 6.0 uses Eclipse 3.0?  I was trying to have a look
at the Eclipse documentation to try to follow how Eclipse fires the
various classes.  In particular, I was trying to see how Eclipse knows
to load the RSE, and from there when I open an RPGLE source member, how
the proper parser and profile get loaded.

Needless to say I am not going to be making a living reading Java code
anytime soon.  :-)  I can see where (Windows, Preferences, Lpex Editor,
Parsers) the parser for ILE RPG is registered.  I can't readily see what
jar file com.ibm.etools.iseries.editor.ISeriesEditorRPGILEParser lives
in, nor where the source might be.

I'll stop rambling.  Is there a good reference for the way WDSC loads
the editor profile it uses for ILE RPG?  Paper works too...
   --buck