Re: Any fixes in Designer?

You have voiced a number of my plaints! My other one is that there is no 
way to get a prototype of a printer file in Designer. SEU on steroids? NOT! 
And there is still nothing for logical files.

See inline

At 03:03 PM 7/8/2003 -0600, you wrote:
-snip-
>The tree view listing of fields on the left side of the window does not 
>act the way a normal tree view acts in windows.  When I right click on a 
>field that is NOT already selected, the field should be selected, and then 
>give me the pop up box of actions I can take with that entry.  What I get 
>is a "verify file" box, and the field that was selected somewhere else in 
>the list is still selected.  I should not have to double click - once left 
>to select, and then right to get the dialog box.

This is the way so much of this stuff "works" - right-click should select, 
as should moving through the tree with the arrow keys. I believe RSE has 
the same issues. This comment applies to the following paragraphs, as well.

>Ok, so now I want to delete a range of field entries from the tree view. I 
>left click on the first field in the list that I want to delete, and it is 
>selected.  I then try to hold down the shift key to select a range of 
>fields to delete, and click on the last field I want to delete.  The most 
>recently clicked entry is selected, and no other entry in the list.  I 
>can't delete a range of field entries??  (Sigh!!)
>
>I like to keep my hands on the keyboard, and think that it might be faster 
>to delete these fields using the "ctl + delete" shortcut.  I click on the 
>first field to be deleted and then press the magic key sequence.  That 
>field disappears from the list!  OK!   The next field I want to delete is 
>now selected and I press the magic key sequence again.  ---  Nothing 
>happens? ---  I found out that if you click on the entry with the left 
>mouse button, the magic delete key sequence will work.  If you don't, the 
>delete will not happen.  (Sigh again!)
>
>It looks like there is no fast way (without going in to Code edit or SEU 
>first and deleting a bunch of lines) to delete a bunch of fields from the 
>designer without double clicking on each one, and then choosing delete.

Have you tried the source (design?) panel? You can edit directly there, 
just as in CODE edit.

>All of this to ask, is the designer dead??  Are there no bug fixes, no 
>development?  Do we have to wait for the WDSC version to make an 
>appearance?  Has the WDSC graphical designer for 5250 screens, printer 
>files, and physical files made it's debut?  Will it ever be there? is it 
>being fazed out for webfacing?   What is the plan?
>
>Thanks for letting me get this off my chest!

Thanks for having the same problems as I!

>Jim Essinger
>Senior Programmer/Analyst
>Student Loan Fund of Idaho


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