Re: RDi DDS Design Perspective -- WDSCI-L

Hi Michael,

That's a good spot on the clicking thing - that slow repeated clicking will
alternate the fields, but the right click only selects the second one.

I'm seeing the same behaviour.

When I first read your email about "two" selected I initially thought you
mean "both" and I wondered if that explained the behaviour I'd occasionally
seen where the "align to parent" option from the context menu was greyed
out.
But having re-read your email and tried it for myself I see you mean the
second one.

best regards,
Craig

On 20 June 2018 at 04:37, Edmund Reinhardt <edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This would make a good candidate for an RFE.

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"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/15/2018 03:50:23
PM:
> ----- Message from Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Fri,
> 15 Jun 2018 20:50:09 +0100 -----
>
> To:
>
> "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
> for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject:
>
> Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi DDS Design Perspective
>
> So,
>
> The design perspective has some functionality which allows you to
centre
a
> field, like you might do in SDA by er typing AC over the attribute
byte
I
> think.
>
> It relies on you being able to access the component to right click
it
to
> get to the context menu.
>
> You can't do that easily if two fields occupy the same space
dependant
on
> an indicator.
>
> I'm not saying it's a problem I was just asking if there was
something
I
> was missing that would allow me cause one of the fields to not be
there.
> Some of these complicated GUIs have features which aren't intuitive
and
I
> just wanted to check I hadn't overlooked it.
>
> Craig

I've been thinking on this one.

If you slowly click the area occupied by the two fields, RDi will
alternate which field is selected. Then you can deal with changes in
the
properties view. e.g., 'One' and 'Two' are both located at the same
spot.
Click once and 'One' is selected. Click a second time and 'Two' is
selected.

But if you want to take action on one of the fields (e.g., dragging
the
field or aligning it), the action is always applied to the second
field
in
the area. It almost seems like a bug to me. If you click where 'One'
is
selected, then right-click, two will be selected. If you click where
'Two'
is selected and right-click, 'Two' remains selected. I would love it
if
it
was consistent to leave the left-click selected field selected when
you
right-click.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
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