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  3. March 2007

Re: Customizing WDSC

wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


"What I really want is to extend the editor and only have to push a couple
of buttons.  One to get the data, the other to output the formatted
records."

We raised the absence of a Rexx-type facility with IBM way back when the
first release of WDSC came out - but it has never happened and since we now
on V7 I doubt it ever will.  They have this weird notion that we'll program
the extensions in Java I guess!
Like others, I can't quite catch on to how IBM is putting things together. My WDSc installs have had an implementation of Object REXX built in to them for some time, but it hasn't been clear what good that is. (I.e., I have used it to run a couple ooRexx programs that were simply easier to write on my PC than on any of our AS/400s due to what the programs needed to do; but I don't know how WDSc uses the rexx.exe itself, if it does.)
But one thing that keeps me thinking is that Object REXX _can_ interface with JAVA functions. The free open-source BSF4Rexx (Bean Scripting Framework for ooRexx) utilities seem promising.
Maybe it's a matter of loading BSF4Rexx and just knowing what methods to call from ooRexx. Both BSF4Rexx and Object Rexx originally came out of IBM and were turned into open-source. 

Naah... can't be... Buck would've had that mastered by now.
Of course, I'm not clear at all how to create a 'record/playback'-function that would capture key-strokes entered into a dialog such as with 'Find'. Just trying to imagine the steps that would be needed...?
As I understand things, that's where real troubles start to complicate it all. Macros seem relatively easy for some functions; but 'record/playback' for keystrokes -- I'd be hard-pressed to make that work under any editor where access to keystrokes isn't built in. 

Tom Liotta

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