Doug,
Please do a simple test for me. Change your LPEX font temporarily to a LARGE-FONT, such as 20 PT. You can change it back!
Then try hover evaluation and see if it works for you!
I show that trick to the newbies all the time. Because the Mouse-I-Beam-cursor is often very smaller than the font. I normally use 8pt font to see more code.
I use that little technique, to explain that to the newbies. And then switch the font back small, and show them how I hover the i-bean (windows pointer) right in the center! And hover works…
Please let us know if that happens to work for you! That is a known issue with Windows. Just the way windows works. Usually only happens when you use a small font.
I have RDI 9.6.0.4 installed on my home desktop, and the hover evaluation works for me.
Sample Hover:
https://imgur.com/a/Bh4Ki9g
show invalid data in the field BSOR#, which is a packed field with spaces, a.k.a. Hex “40”.
Here are my debug preferences:
https://imgur.com/a/fGm2AHf
Now, I did not have the “Outline View” built, because I have that turned off. I like to control it manually.
So, even after building the outline view, I did not see the “Hover-Type”. But, I did see the “value of the variable”.
https://imgur.com/a/zF7i9Ul
So, I open an PMR# 54237,442,000 (RDi 9.6.0.4 not showing “Hover types”)
I did not open a PMR, for the evaluation not working, because it worked for me with RDI 9.6.0.4. I was unable to duplicate your report problem.
I always request that my users, a.k.a. the customer, to be able to repeat an error, before I can fix it. I tell my customers, if you can duplicate it, I can fix it!
So, hopefully, RDI support let me know if I need an update or something. Maybe I missed a setting, it has sadly happen to me before.
Thanks RDI support Team!
-Ken Killian-
PS. I wish I had good “Screen Recording Software” where I could create short 10-second RDI tips. But, I haven’t found a good free one yet. Oh well. Most of the good one, you have to pay… ☹
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:00:39 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] How to remove Fixpack 9.6.0.4 - Is it possible?
Doug,
Yeah, I have ran into that....
Maybe check this setting:
window > preference>Run/Debug>Compile Debug
"checked" for "Allow hover evaluation"
I concur it would be nice if that ALWAYS worked, instead of having to set Configuration. Why wouldn't you want it to *ALWAYS* work?
But, who knows, that might be bug or configuration issue.
For Microsoft Visual studio, it is ALWAYS ON. I guess for RDI, maybe settings. Just guess...
For some strange reason, when I toogle over to *LISTING mode with the monochrome debug editor the Hover seems to always work. But, not when I use the LPEX editor.
Later, when I have time, I will try to open a PMR on that. Assume that I can duplicate that error. Probably this weekend.
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Bak, Doug (LMF)
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 9:34 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] How to remove Fixpack 9.6.0.4 - Is it possible?
Is it possible to remove just the 9.6.0.4 fixpack and revert to 9.6.0.3? Maybe it's me, but I tried removing the repository in Installation Manager and running the Update process, which reported that there are no new updates to be applied. I'm really not liking the changes that were introduced, specifically to hovering over variables to see the field content during debug.
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