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

Hi Mark

The configuration of which tags to pull in is not really an iSphere thing - iSphere piggybacks on the existing task support.

The iSphere preference page lets you specify which kind of source - the extensions like .rpgle and .cmd, etc. - that will have this feature activated as an LPEX tag.

Someone is going to have to help me find real benefit from this, I guess.

Cheers
Vern

On 8/31/2015 12:07 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:

I agree with Buck on this, TODO is very helpful, you may even be able to configure, in preferences, what tags you want to pull in. I don't have iSphere, and miss the feature. Eclipse also has an additional task tool called Mylyn which can be used to hook into many of the issue tracking systems including Mantis and Bugzilla. This is useful when you have a team working on things and you want to have a more traditional task list for the team. Depending on your issue tracking software, you get even more features. I believe that stock Eclipse also has a simple local task list which would not be shared with anyone, less useful unless you are a lone developer.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/31/2015 10:51AM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] 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