Re: Find in Outline

Thank you for your involvement in the community.

-Kurt

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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edmund Reinhardt
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find in Outline


Thanks Sam and Kurt,
I have appended your comments to our User Story 8939 and we will continue to pursue the process with it.

Edmund Reinhardt
Rational Developer for Power


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[To recap, high level request is:
"Be able to select a data element name in the source and have a function to "find in outline"
]

So, from a quick experiment, it highlights the lines that contain the text with a outlined yellow arrow in the left margin. (WDSC7.0 is what I
have.)

This is definitely new to me.

I do see a couple of drawbacks:

1) I work mostly with the current pane full size. When I do
Search->Text->File it goes back to a window, because it brings up the
Search Pane.

Of course, from the Search Pane you can use the Up and Down yellow outlines arrows go the previous or next match. And I suppose I could make the search pane a floating view and keep the editing window maximized.

2) The outline view does show where a field is defined. If it originated in a file, outline tells me that immediately. This doesn't

Me, I'd like to see you continue to investigate new outline functionality.

What do others think?

Sam

On 1/11/2011 5:27 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:

Sam, Kurt et. al.

Here is a handy tip that will get you want you want, until we can

implement

this feature.

Select your variable in the editor, go to the menu Search->Text->File
and then in the Search results view, you will see all occurences of
that string in the file.

See the attached bitmap (I know you won't see it on the wdsc-l)

Is this enough to meet your requirement, or do we need to continue to
investigate this functionality.

Hope this helps,
Edmund

(See attached file: FindInOutline.jpg)

From: "Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx"<lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 13/11/2010 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find in Outline (was Re: Compiling rpg source)
Sent by: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Edmund,

Appreciate your participation in the list.

Here's where I'm coming from. Note that I'm current on WDSc 7 (hoping
to upgrade next budget year.)

I'm maintaining/researching a lot of code that I didn't write. It's
all RPG IV, but much of it came from a RPG 3 basis and virtually all
variable names and field names are 6 chars max. I'm not familiar with
all the many files, so when I'm looking at code and want to find the
usage of a variable, I expand the Field section of the outline and
start typing the variable name. Often the variable is found.
However, if this happens to be a field in a file, then I have to
expand the Files section, and then guess which file to expand and try
typing again. Maybe I picked the right file, but often I don't.

There may be better ways to speed up this process, but, it seems to me
that what would be of great value the ability to right click on a
variable name and then choose "Locate in Outline."

I'm not sure hovering (fly-over) could accomplish this.

And, while I'm in at it...

When expanded, many of my outlines get exceeding long. I would be
nice to be able to have a quick way in the outline to collapse all sections.

Thanks for listening,

Sam




I would make use of this. We have a lot of variables that start

with

"w_" so positioning doesn't work in this case. And when there's a

copybook

bringing in 100's of w_ fields, it's a pain to sift through (b/c I'm

pretty

sure they are presented in order of appearance in the copybook - vs.
alphabetical). Also - if I'm looking for a DS subfield, and there are
20 DS's, this would make it easier to locate to find the definition.

However, if content-assist could be all that every suggested it
could

be

in a previous thread, I would rarely go to Outline for field
definitions (for me it's more of a navigational tool).

-Kurt

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On Behalf Of lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:41 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Find in Outline (was Re: Compiling rpg source)

Might be cool to be able to select a data element name in the source

and

have a function to "find in outline".

I heartily agree! Anyone else?

Sam

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