LPEX tasks & iSphere - just looking at this and some thoughts

Hi

One of the things iSphere has is a Tasks component, which ties in with the Java and other task setup in RDi.

When turned on, it pulls lines with the text '// TODO', for example, and displays them in a Tasks view, from which you can double click the task and open the source it came from.

Seems nice enough - but you can't mark these auto-listed tasks as complete, therefore you can't remove completed ones from the list. This is apparently by design of Eclipse.

I'm wondering just how useful this is - for awhile this morning I thought it was not so good - then I just had the thought that maybe the idea is to remove the tag line from source when the thing is done.

Does that line up with anyone's thoughts here?

Now I do see online that one can add tasks directly from the marker bar - you know, that narrow thing on the left that sometimes has warning triangles and breakpoints and all. I've begun to use it a l lot when RDi detects a syntax error, then I see what's going on - pretty cool, IMO.

The tasks entered this way are not written into the source, I see, and they do show up in the Tasks view, with the ability to mark as complete, either by checking the checkbox you now see or using the context menu.

Now this is starting to get interesting, I think - so I'm curious about y'all's experiences with this.

Try it out by right-clicking the marker bar on the left of a source member - I don't think the iSphere stuff has anything to do with that, but Thomas can confirm.

Cheers
Vern