Re: Why can I not run a "Find String" in the background?

Slow or not, I was wondering why it acts like the old "modal dialogs", i.e.
the application accepts no input until the process completes. It's annoying
to have to stare at it. I was wondering if anyone knew any setting that
would make it run in the background, with a status bar in the status window
thing like other processes do.

Stu




On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 00:08, Colpaert, Peter <Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Stuart,

Apparently, 'Find string' is only slow when searching a member filter.

I found that running it on a source file filter is much quicker.

I don't know if creating a file filter is an option for you, but it might
help.

For the record, I'm (still) on WDSCi 7.0.

Best regards,

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer - PLM Development Team
Philips Consumer Luminaires
Tel: (+32) 3/459 13 17
Fax: (+32) 3/450 74 33
Address: Industrieterrein Satenrozen 11, 2550 Kontich, Belgium
Email: Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx

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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Rowe
Sent: vrijdag 3 september 2010 15:15
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
forSystem i & iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Why can I not run a "Find String" in the background?

What a horrible, tooth-grinding slow experience is waiting for "Find
String"
to finish while I am forced to stare at the dopey progress bar. I
would not
mind the slowness of it if I did not have to WATCH it the whole time.

I'm attempting to search a filter that contains a smattering of members
from
various disparate libraries on a single i by right-click the filter
then
Find String. In this case it searches one member at a time while
forcing me
to watch. I scanned the archives and I realize this is a painfully
slow,
shoot-me-in-the-head method for searching and yes I am aware of several
alternatives, none of which are quite what I need.

I can't seem to find a single setting (of the millions available) that
allows it to run "unattended" and tell me when it is finished (i.e. get
out
of my face, do search, bring the search results to the foreground when
done,
much like the super-annoying error list comes to the foreground and
steals
focus after a batch compile -- still to this day it does that). Seems
odd
that I can compile in batch and do other things in batch while still
working
on my source, but Find String sits in my face for (sometimes) up to 45
minutes while preventing me from using Rational at all for anything
else the
whole time.

Anyone have a trick for enabling the continuation of actual work while
the
search progresses? I've searched the help and the web to no avail --
perhaps it is truly impossible. Of course, searching for terms like
these
result in far too many hits to actually read them all.

I suppose I could start another instance of Rational just for
searching.

I'm running IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software 7.5.0.

Stu
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