Re: No *ESCAPE message on wrong compile command -- WDSCI-L

On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 10:23 -0500, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:

I understand that taking the keyboard focus is annoying, but don't you want
feedback on whether the compile was successful or not? What mechanism
would you prefer for that?

I quite like the way some terminal programs (xfce4-terminal, for
example) on Linux work, by flashing the non-viewed tab briefly, when
something changes, and then leaving the title text highlighted, or
colour changed, until its clicked on.

Perhaps the (sub?) window title decorator could be changed when
something changes, within that window, until the on-click event is
processed, and have it all conditioned by either selecting "grab focus
on change" or "highlight on change". I guess you might even be able to
open/un-minimise windows without grabbing focus, but I can see that
causing lots of problems if the window happened to end up blocking the
currently selected window and where the current cursor was. A good
example would be the bottom "tasks/commands log/error logs/etc." which I
usually have minimised (I tend to use the green screen to do stuff -
compiles and error checking - and wdsc purely for editing due to using a
free machine on line), if my cursor was at the bottom of the edit screen
then un-minimising that window would block my editing.

Jon

From: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28/02/2016 08:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] No *ESCAPE message on wrong compile command
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Edmund,

The message box might be obtrusive and annoying.

I don't think it would be any more annoying or obtrusive than opening (even
if it is closed) and displaying (even if it is minimized) the error list
after EVERY COMPILE, good OR bad. I've been fighting that one for years
now. It steals focus away from where I am typing -- really annoying. I
guess that "the Eclipse way" though.

Stu

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Tools/400 <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Edmund,

Most of the time I compile objects interactively and hence I expected to
get a message dialog for a failing command much the same as on a command
line. For batch compiles I can use the iSphere Message Monitor.

But it might be worth to improve RDi to either display the "Error List"
or the "Commands Log" depending on the availability of *EVENTF entries.

Thomas.

Am 26.02.2016 um 18:43 schrieb Edmund Reinhardt:

We don't currently have an option to do that.
Would making the Commands Log view visible if a command (that does not

have

*EVENTF) fails be sufficient.
The message box might be obtrusive and annoying.

From: Tools/400

<thomas.raddatz-a9TbBav64t4b1SvskN2V4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
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Date: 26/02/2016 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] No *ESCAPE message on wrong compile command
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Hi Vern,

The problem has nothing to do with the *EVENTF option. There are lots

of

commands that do not have that option and I wonder how to get noticed

by

RDi when such a command fails.

Today, I had a problem with a command of our change management system
that sent an *ESCAPE message, which was silently ignored by RDi. Then I
did additional tests and tried to compile a RPGLE source member with
CRTFOODCMD (which does not exist) and CRTTBL (which should not
understand a RPGLE source).

Guess what? Nothing happened what I tried to compile the module from an
RSE source member filter. That is really bad, when you are in a hurry
and you think that it compiled just fine.

At least I would like to see an option to enable a popup message box

when:

* a command, that does not have specified *EVENTF, failed
* there is a typo in a custom compile command

The popup is not really necessary (maybe even annoying) when the

command

created *EVENTF information.

Thomas.

Am 26.02.2016 um 16:34 schrieb Vernon Hamberg:

*EVENTF option

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