Re: Content Assist (Ctl/Space) Field text description from DDS suggestion

[Kurt Anderson <kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great idea, Stu.  I would love to see that as well.

-Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Rowe
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 4:54 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Content Assist (Ctl/Space) Field text description from DDS suggestion

If I can tag along here...

4. Show me the names I keyed for parameters in prototypes; even though they
are not required, they are ALLOWED and should be shown.  It gives so much
more information than CHAR(1).

Stu


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 16:08, Kurt Anderson <kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> That would be nice, especially for field names that aren't mnemonic.
>
> My biggest desires for content assist are:
>
> 1. Show me decimal positions.  (Can I add "for the love of god" to that?
>  Every time I ctrl-space a numeric field, I sigh then go to the outline to
> find how many decimal positions the number field has.)
>
> 2. Show me the value of a Constant.
>
> 3. Allow content assist in Browse mode (but obviously turn off the 'select
> from content assist' aspect of it).
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andy Hautamaki
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:25 AM
> To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] Content Assist (Ctl/Space) Field text description from
> DDS suggestion
>
> Does anyone else think it would be a good idea when using the Content
> Assist
> that not only will it show the field attributes but also pull in the field
> text description from the dds?
>
> Thanks
> Andy Hautamaki
>
>
>
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