Re: Outline View

I am sorry that I lost it. That was unprofessional of me.

My RDI 9.1.1 became "Flaky", and I was even unable to restart it for "magical fixes". I tried to reboot my computer twice to fix it, no luck.

I got an error dialog that said check the error-log, which was Greek to me.

I gave up, and deleted my workspace to force a recreation; which seems to clear my errors within RDI.

Yes, it created an Error-log that I saved. But I had to get back to work.

Having the cursor in your Lpex jump around, when merely scrolling outline view is unacceptable. RDI 9.0.1 didn't do that.

I have reported a lot of issues to IBM:

APAR SE58364 Fix Save-ICON save. (Broken-Apparently, this is unfixable?)
APAR SE59296 RDI 910 LEPX Ctrl_f Dialg tabbing Order. (Broken-Again)
APAR SE61047 RDI 911 Ctrl+f not auto-populating (Broken-Again)

Fixed <Joy Joy>
--------
APAR SE58370 DBGE001E Loop in RPG when monitor data-structure(Fixed, instead of apprx 50 dialogs, it is now limited to approx. 5)
APAR SE58126 ILE RPG content assist show incorrect Field Size
APAR SE58753 No outline view on selected source file (fixed, I think)
APAR SE56558 RDI 9.0.1 Verify Button Disable after switching tabs (Fixed, I think)
APAR SE59284 RDI 910 outline view fails on variable "and"/"Or"
APAR SE59477 Lost all update. Char can't mapped using CP1252 (Fixed! Yeah)
APAR SE59841 RDI 910 msg not removed when error corrected. (fixed)

I found the Rational Developer/Support team to be very professional and very friendly. <Big Smile>
Big Kudos to the RDI support team, especially Mike H., whom I usually work with to report bugs.

But once an Issue has been fixed, it should NOT be "Re-broken".

Without any doubt, RDI, a professional IDE is certainly better than no IDE at all. And overall the RDI Debug is completely AWESOME! Next to compiler errors, I love the debugger! I will continue to use RDI...

But, I must learn to accept quirks/faults within RDI, I am done. I will just laugh, and say wow, a "new feature". No reason to raise my blood pressure. <LOL> :)


-Ken Killian-


-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:21 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View

Yes, and if I use find twenty times for every one time I use Find/Replace, I would be pressing tab in this dialog more than I'm using Alt+P.

Ken keep screaming that EVERYTHING works by tabbing directly from find to replace. Bring up notepad. Press Ctrl+F. There is no replace--same with wordpad. The replace dialog is a separate one accessed by Ctrl+H. Since we have a combined keystroke and dialog for find and find/replace, I think we're stuck with Alt+P--at least for now.

And Ken if you really don't like it, don't use it. No one (repeat NO ONE) is making you use it. I find it very reliable and greatly increasing my productivity. Even when I'm trying to replace text, I may press tab after being in the 'Find' box. But I simply press Alt+P to get to the replace.
Optimal? Maybe not, but it works and I'm still more productive.

If editor software is so simple, write your own.

Anyway, we can argue this till we're blue in the face. It's not changing today--probably not next week or even next month. Open an RFE for how you would like and let people vote on it. They can add comments to the RFE if they disagree. I don't care. I'll take the Alt+P and probably use it even if the behavior changes. I'm a creature of habit.
And I'm done with this discussion.

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/23/2015 03:32:33 PM:

----- Message from Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:46:42 +0000 -----

To:

"'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries'" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View

I see what you're saying, but very often I am using replace with find.

Here are two other points for thought.

1. If tab went to the Replace box first, you press tab ONE more time
to get to the checkboxes - I have to press tab ELEVEN times to get to
the replace box.
2. If you are not replacing text during your find, it would be a good
practice to delete any text that was there before doing your search
(since RSE retains this) - On more than one occasion, I have
accidentally clicked on the Replace button (which happens to be just
under the Next button) by mistake.

My argument is that I cannot recall a single application (on any
platform), website, emulation screen, etc. where the TAB key "jumped
over" an adjacent field (data entry point)... so why should RSE?

Not to belabor the point... I don't want another ALT-<key> sequence to
remember.

Greg

----- Message from Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Fri, 23 Jan
2015 20:01:13 +0000 -----

To:

"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View

Buck,

I appreciate you sane sage advice, when I am going crazy with RDI...

When I updated my find preference, it did not tell me that I need a
restart. However, a re-start fixed my tab issue...

I have HUGE "Trust" issue with this unreliable software. I didn't
think Editor software should be so hard!!!!

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