Good points Jon
You will find the named indicator sets in RDp 7.5 and the rules for
combining records in the preview are much more rigorous that CODE Designer,
thanks to our experience with WebFacing. You can now condition each
subfile record individually, which is something you couldn't do in CODE
Designer.
But I agree that I miss the ability to type in a constant from CODE
Designer, Unfortunately this did not fit the "Eclipse" way of doing
things, so this will remain a limitation. Conversion from constants was a
feature that did not make the cut for this release.
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Edmund Reinhardt, reinhard@xxxxxxxxxx,
COBOL on AIX, DDS on IBM i, RD for Power,
Dept YFY, IBM Canada Lab
TL 313-4392 Phone 905-413-4392
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On Mar 20, 2010, at 1:00 PM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
And to be fair, I didn't even consider CODE. I didn't consider CODE
because it's is obsolete technology. As for Screen Designer being
based
on CODE Designer, sure, about the same way that RPG Free is based on
RPG II. :)
While I agree with the obsolete comment Joe I think the RPG II
comparison is rather unfair to the folks who built CODE Designer.
I've been working with the RDp 7.5 Designer and while it is a nice
piece of work there really is very little that it offers that wasn't
in CODE Designer and a few things that I find not as easy to use. In
fact the only new feature I've found so far is the ability to store
test data for fields in addition to the indicator setting clusters
that CODE Designer had.
Certainly not as easy to switch between your program source code and
the display design - but also not as east as CODE Designer when it
comes to simple things like entering constants on the screen or
entering data and converting it to a field.
For sure a move in the right direction - but not a quantum leap.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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