Hi Greg,
I just ran a quick test and found that the hover comes from the procedure declaration, not the protype. We grab the preceding comments, and append any of the end of line comments along with it.
A nice RFE may be to prefer the protoype comments instead of the procedure. Glad to hear people are using comments on their declarations and prototypes!
Steve Ferrell
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This is a mix of **FREE and free format w/out the **FREE
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Killian
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:14 AM
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I hit f2 to get focus, and then I was able to stretch out the pop-up, and get all text.
Now I am using 100% **free with no punch-card code. Maybe that makes the difference.
**free has been out for close to 6-years now.
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Greg Wilburn
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Hovering on a function, help text
Not to hijack this thread... but, I have several functions where this doesn't work completely. It shows the interface parameters, but not the comments. I can't figure out why these several prototypes won't show the comments.
For me this is a very useful tool, so I've been using lots of comments in my /copy source for prototypes.
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Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 7:18 AM
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Subject: [WDSCI-L] Hovering on a function, help text
Hi all, I'm on RDI 9.6.0.6.
When I hover over a function, RDI retrieve the full prototype definition and the preceding comments (help text). Very nice and useful but I ask myself if the fact it's reporting only the first 80 characters is a bug or there is an option somewhere controlling this behavior?
TIA
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Marco Facchinetti
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