Re: Cursor jumping after compile? -- WDSCI-L

Perhaps RDI needs a splash page itemizing what's new and what's changed.
Changed defaults across releases could cause heartburn: RDi users might not
have access to, or read, the Notice to Users or its equivalent, especially
if tech support upgrades RDi without informing the PC's user.

I'd make it a Preference: "Show splash page Y/N" and reset to "Y" with each
fixpack or new release. Some fixes/changes are narrow in scope but have a
big impact--like this one.

Want to make this feature really cool? Add the ability for local comments
that persist across releases (maybe we can already do this; my copy of
"Writing RDi Plugins for Dummies" is overdue).

On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM Paul Therrien via WDSCI-L <
wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since we are talking about idiosyncrasies of RDI, has anyone else seen the
behavior in CLLE program source where the cursor on a new line jumps to a
column in the middle of the new blank line instead of lining up with the
existing lines.
In my current CLLE source it seems to be column 51.

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mike
Hockings
Sent: Friday, September 5, 2025 7:09 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Cursor jumping after compile?

You don’t make mistakes and I always find things in the LAST place that I
look! We should team up!! 😉

I was told that it is supposed to go to the line associated with the first
message in the Error List, or something like that. If it is not exactly
how you expect that could be a good idea for a, well, an “Idea” at the IBM
Ideas portal. Or you could open a case and I can spend some real time
looking at it. FWIW, I thought I had a case where this was discussed but I
can’t seem to locate it - my memory for trivia is longer than the list of
current discussions with dev’t 😉

There is also a compiler APAR to fix the event file from being flooded by
RNF7031 messages - in some cases at least that makes it faster ...

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/defect/aCIKe000000XgeJOAS/dt400744?language=en_US

Mike

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Mike Hockings, M.Eng.

IBM Rational Developer for System z and Power Systems Software Technical
Support

IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory

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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of David
Gibbs via WDSCI-L <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] Cursor jumping after compile?

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM Mike Hockings <hockings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Go to the Error List view and click on the menu icon (three vertical
dots) then select
Automatically Insert > Into open members & files and select
Message > Insert selected only

That appears to have fixed it, however ...

IIRC the cursor is supposed to be positioned to the first message, so

changing the settings should make things faster (inserting everything

into

all members is incredibly slow) and the cursor should also calm down.

I was seeing the cursor jump even when there were no errors in the code
(you know me well enough to realize I don't make misteakes :) ).

david

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