Have a look at this article:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0605_casey/0605_casey.html
It's old, and is talking about RDz instead of RDi, but the majority of the steps are identical and it should be fairly clear what to do.
A hint for the final step, which appears to be different:
There are two locations that hold plugins, "plugins" in the SDP folder and "plugins" in the SDPShared folder. When exporting your plugin (or copying it, as suggested) do not copy into the shared folder as it just won't work.
There is also an article about creating a user profile for LPEX, which basically allows you to assign keys and run commands whenever an LPEX source editor is opened. If you look for com.ibm.lpex.samples in the RDP help, you should find an example user profile in there with source.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0607_casey/0607_casey.html
-Paul.
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hammack, Ted
Sent: 14 August 2013 15:40
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] User Key Actions - RDi 9.0
Hi Buck, thanks for your reply.
Wish I knew why User Key Actions works for you without parser having to be disabled (there must be some other box I need to check or uncheck somewhere).
As I'm sure you figured out, I'm trying to emulate what I was able to do in SEU with newline (where, no matter where my cursor is, I could get to the leftmost position of the prefix area just by hitting one key one time, and where subsequent hits of the same key act as a down arrow).
Shame on me for trying to emulate SEU I guess. I wouldn't mind playing around with a Java macro to accomplish this, if anyone can show me how.
For now, I'll just enable parsing & continue to hit Home-LeftArrow-DownArrow (three steps :-(
message: 4
date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:14:23 -0400
from: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] User Key Actions - RDi 9.0
On 8/14/2013 8:46 AM, Hammack, Ted wrote:
I've found that the only way I can get user key actions to do anything
is when I check the box to Disable Parsing (in the main LPEX Editor
panel under preferences). Seems that I shouldn't have to do this
though,
you would think that the user should be able to customize their
keyboard
whether parsing is set on or off (and I need to keep it on, I loose a
whole bunch of features when parsing is disabled).
Hi Ted!
I have 3 user key actions that I use pretty much every day, and I have Parsing turned on.
a-s splitAndShift
a-s-s split
c-a-f findSelection
When I am able to get newline to work on my enter key (again, with
parsing disabled), it doesn't go to the leftmost position of the
prefix
area. It only goes to the leftmost position of the non-prefix (edit)
area. The goal was to get my cursor to the area where I can enter a
prefix command, using a single keystroke. Seems like at this point, I
would need to somehow create a keyboard macro that does both Newline
and
PrefixHome, but I don't know how to set this up in RDi.
Anyone out there have a solution for this?
prefixHome only works if the cursor is already in the prefix area. It won't move the cursor from the editing area to the prefix area. You can test it out by opening up a source member, enter a C spec, press Escape to get to the command line and try the command 'action prefixHome'
(without the quotes). Press Escape to get back to the editing area and you'll see the cursor is in the same place.
Now try 'action newLine' and see what happens. The cursor moves down one line and to the beginning of the text on that line.
Now try these commands one after the other. That is, press Escape, do both actions, then press Escape to get back to editing. 'action home'
'action left'. The cursor should be in the prefix area. So what you need is a sequence of actions strung together. Unfortunately, you can't do that with the User Key Commands dialogue; only one action can be assigned to a given key.
You could create a User Action with Java, but I haven't done that yet.
The last time I did this sort of thing, it was in Rexx on Code/400.
This is where I chime in about how much I miss Rexx macros.
This probably doesn't help much, but that's where we are. Maybe you could open an RFE to allow simple strings of editor actions to be strung together under a single keystroke.
--buck
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