On 6/20/2013 12:23 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
Docking would be an Eclipse thing, not RDI - so take a look at this link -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11383083/unable-to-dock-perspective-bar-on-the-left-in-eclipse-juno
Seems they took it out of Eclipse and it ain't comin' back - probably.
Probably not, although there are bug reports asking to have the 3.x
behaviour returned.
Kind of crazy how we have to dig in lots of places - and figure out when something is an Eclipse problem vs an DRi plugin problem.
It's a strange mélange. For the most part, the way views and
perspectives work is part of Eclipse. The parts that IBM keep tweaking
are the parts that directly involve the i - language lexer/parsers,
command interface, compile and debug interfaces. That sort of thing.
I use Eclipse at home for embedded PIC programming and the occasional
attempts at Java, so I was aware of the look and feel changes between
3.x and 4.x. But I bet there aren't that many IBM i programmers who use
Eclipse outside of RDi, which is going to cause a whole bunch of
questions on this list as well as some bug reports. Because IBM is
supporting the whole RDi product for us, and we as a community are going
to see those Eclipse changes as defects in RDi - lost functionality.
RDP 8.5 was based on Eclipse 3.6 and RDi 9.0 is based on Eclipse 4.2.
The good news is that Eclipse 3.7 and 3.8 were mostly bug fix /
stability releases and didn't tinker a lot with the UI. 4.2 is intended
to be the 'new features' release (with 4.0 and 4.1 being 'early adopter'
releases). So although it /seems/ like a big jump from 3.6 to 4.2, it
wasn't that large a gap.
Eclipse 4.2 has a 'classic' look (Preferences -> General -> Appearance
theme: Classic) but RDi provides its own theme - Rational IDE - but this
doesn't restore the UI elements that were intentionally altered (like
fast views) by the underlying SDK. If one wanted to, one could make
one's own theme by editing the CSS:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/CSS
No idea how this affects IBM support aside from giving them a headache.
I don't know of a canonical list of changes between Eclipse 3.x and 4.x :-(
--buck
midrange.com
