Re: Latest fix pack

Hi Vern,

Thanks for the clarification on the Data Style issue. I now see what you
were referring. This will be fixed in the future.

Thanks again for the input,
Taryn Morris - RDi Developer



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Hi Taryn

This is great to hear - I really appreciate what you all are doing.

As to the Data style - my comments were in reference to the example pane
in the Preferences. In Parser Styles there are 2 lines of examples for
compile-time-array data.

1. Both lines start in position 1, as they should.
2. The first example, "COMMENT", is colored as comment if you click in
positions 1-5, and as Data from position 6 on.
3. The second example, "TIME", is colored as comment from 1-5 and as
nothing from postion 6 on.
4. The third example, "ARRAY", is colored as comment from 1-5 and as
Data from position 6 on, although the example has nothing there.

Now what is the effect in real code? It works as it should - it's all
data - now at first, the third example came up as comment until I hit
enter to make another line, or until I added a squiggle to Data.

So the issue seems to be in the Preferences example, not in real life.

Thanks again
Vern

On 1/7/2014 3:51 PM, Taryn Morris wrote:

Thank you for the feedback. We will be fixing the issues regarding the

use

of the word "macro", since we can understand the confusion with this.

Also,

the Free-Form Identifiers style will be corrected to not include macro
statements so that they can be colored differently from identifiers.

With regards to some of the other issues or questions:
To hopefully clear up some confusion about the style of Layout Space,

this

style represents that of a blank space in the source (ie: the space

between

two words).

After some time trying, I do not appear to see the issue with the Data
style that Vern mentions. The double-asterisk should be considered a Data
style.

Regards,
Taryn Morris, RDi Development


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From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
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<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date: 16/12/2013 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Latest fix pack
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I found a couple other odd things - actually I don't remember visiting
the Parser Styles section before, so this is a little new to me.

First, I find the use of the word "macro" to be a bit strange - these
are called directives in the RPG reference. There is absolutely NO
mention of macros in the reference. Why the change in wording? The CPP
parser style calls #define a "CPP driective". Sigh!

Now for the example of /TITLE - this is identified as a macro. If you
put your cursor in the text that follows, it's labeled "Layout Space" -
what?

I also clicked in the example for compile time array - some of it is
labeled, in the example, as comments! The double-asterisk is labeled as
"Data".

There is almost no documentation that I've been able to find as to just
what all the style elements are - they names, as I mentioned above, do
not match anything I know from the RPG manuals. Therefore, the help is
not helpful!

Regards
Vern

On 12/16/2013 9:03 AM, Stuart Rowe wrote:

Got it installed. Lots of new "syntax coloring" options.

I think one is miscategorized, though, leading to ugliness:

In this directive

/include srcfile,srcmbr

or this one

/if defined(condition)

the bit after the "keyword" (the file,mbr for example, or (condition) )
used to be categorized as "Macro Statement" but is now "Free-form
Identifier". First off, it's not an identifier, and second it mixes

these

in with actual "Free-form Identifiers" (like file, variable and

procedure

names) and ends up looking sloppy. I used to be able to have all the
macros in one color, now I cannot.


Stu

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