Edmund,
Appreciate your participation in the list.
Here's where I'm coming from. Note that I'm current on WDSc 7 (hoping
to upgrade next budget year.)
I'm maintaining/researching a lot of code that I didn't write. It's all
RPG IV, but much of it came from a RPG 3 basis and virtually all
variable names and field names are 6 chars max. I'm not familiar with
all the many files, so when I'm looking at code and want to find the
usage of a variable, I expand the Field section of the outline
and start typing the variable name. Often the variable is found.
However, if this happens to be a field in a file, then I have to expand
the Files section, and then guess which file to expand and try typing
again. Maybe I picked the right file, but often I don't.
There may be better ways to speed up this process, but, it seems to me
that what would be of great value the ability to right click on a
variable name and then choose "Locate in Outline."
I'm not sure hovering (fly-over) could accomplish this.
And, while I'm in at it...
When expanded, many of my outlines get exceeding long. I would be nice
to be able to have a quick way in the outline to collapse all sections.
Thanks for listening,
Sam
On 11/12/2010 6:16 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
Wouldn't it be cooler if the definition showed up in a fly-over when your
mouse hovered over a data element.
midrange.com
