Thanks Eric,
We are all on Windows7 these days so we are affected by the issue stated in SE47488 - I guess I should have googled harder to find that apar. I don't want to remove the control codes as we still have several SEU-die-hards and LPEX-avoiders, but I guess it is unavoidable in some situations and those SEU users will have to put up with it.
Cheers,
Paul.
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Chan
Sent: 15 July 2011 18:39
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Cc: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx; wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Colour hex codes
Hi folks,
Starting with Windows Vista and onwards, Microsoft has changed the behaviour of their operating system to no longer render many control characters. The hex codes used for colouring, unfortunately, fall into the range of characters not rendered by Windows. So whereas on Windows XP, you'd see a square box or some other symbol, you don't see anything at all in Windows Vista and Windows 7. What's worse, because the character isn't drawn, the remainder of the text of the line gets shifted over by one column to the left in RDP. The source will compile, because RDP is still keeping track of and saving the control characters, Windows just isn't rendering them.
We have APAR SE47488 open to track this issue. At the moment, there isn't a good workaround, other than to manually remove these hex codes from the source, as some folks have done.
Eric Chan
Rational Developer for Power
From:
Paul Bailey <PaulBailey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:
"WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
07/15/2011 10:51 AM
Subject:
[WDSCI-L] Colour hex codes
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Hi,
I appear to be spamming the WDSCi-L list today, so I apologise if it upsets anyone!
I am using RDP 8.0.0.3 and when I see source that has coloured lines in SEU, RDP displays each line of that source one character to the left of where it should be. That is, the C in a normal RPG calculation specification line displays in column 5 for "coloured" lines and column 6 for others!
The source compiles fine but doesn't display in RDP very well. Does anyone know what causes this display problem and if there is a workaround?
Incidentally, I was the guy who wrote this:
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/WDSC_tips/MISC#I_have_these_strange_square_symbols_in_my_code
. If you are curious to find out what I am on about, there are tips in that page to enable you to enter the hex codes into your source in WDSC (and, by extension, RDP.)
Cheers,
Paul.
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