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January 17, 2008, 10:33 AM
TedB
Dev Studio Editor
Currently to edit a focexec I can right click and select "Edit in Text Editor" or "Edit in Notepad". How can I add or change an option so that I can edit in something other than the Dev Studio editor or Notepad ? (UltraEdit for example)

Another question related to editors. We recently upgraded from 7.1 to 7.6 and I noticed a change in the "Find" tool in the Dev Studio editor. In 7.1 if you highlighted a word and clicked the Find icon, the Find dialog window would pop up with the highlighted word. In 7.6 the highlighted word is not in the dialog window. Also in 7.6 the "Find" ends at the end of the file instead of the "Find" restarting at the beginning.


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January 17, 2008, 10:39 AM
Prarie
check out this document.
http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/ultraedit.html


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January 17, 2008, 12:32 PM
CLH
The prefilled search is back in 7.6.4 I'm not sure which point release you are at but we found it was there in 7.6.0 not there in 7.6.2 and is back in 7.6.4


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January 17, 2008, 02:15 PM
TedB
quote:
Originally posted by Prarie:
check out this document.
http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/ultraedit.html


Prarie, Thanks for your reply. I checked out this link but it seems to deal only with syntax highlighting and running focexecs in UltraEdit. I didn't see anything about editing with UE(instead of Notepad) within Dev Studio.


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January 17, 2008, 02:20 PM
Prarie
He has a link to some files you have to download so you can use UltraEdit while Editing.


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January 18, 2008, 09:16 AM
jgelona
Maybe this should be reported as a bug because the documentation leads one to believe DevStudio can use a different editor. One should be able to do the following and have it work.

  • In DS, click on Window/Options and the DS Options window opens.
  • Go to External Tools tab and add Ultra Edit.
  • Then go to the General tab and select Edit in Windows registered tool.
  • Open Windows Explore, click on Tools/Folder Options
  • Click on the File Types tab
  • Change the file type for FEX from Notepad to UltraEdit.
  • Now go into UltraEdit and associate .fex with UltraEdit. Do this by clicking on Advanced/Configuration/File Associations. Type .fex in the File Types/Extensions window and click Add.

According to the help in DS, at least the way I read it, this should cause DS to use UltraEdit to edit FEX files. Now, when I right click on a fex in DS, my first option is Edit in UltraEdit, but when I select it, nothing happens.

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September 03, 2008, 03:40 PM
DBDB
Have there been any changes that fix this bug to allow UltraEdit to be the editor?
September 03, 2008, 08:45 PM
susannah
I agree. its misleading. i wanted to use TextPad..
I was told by css it was local host only.
that didn't work either.
i never got it to work and just bailed.
I found that i could edit .htm in MSFrontPage, and then learned that that was because i had FrontPage set in Windows as the default htm editor, and only if its already selected as the default editor when you install devstu.
sigh.



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September 04, 2008, 09:23 PM
Jim Morrow
If I am not using the Dev Studio GUI, and want to use Ultra-edit. I open Dev Studio work and stay at the "explorer view".

Then I also open Windows Explorer. I open the Focexec in Ultra-edit. I save the FOCEXEC. (There is no need to close Ultra-edit)

Then I change screens to Dev Studio, and run the Focexec from the epxlorer view.

I just keep changing windows to edit/save and run my changes.


Jim Morrow
Web Focus 7.6.10 under Windows 2003
MVS 7.3.3



September 05, 2008, 02:08 AM
Tony A
My preferred editor outside of DS is Notepad++ and I cen execute any fex directly without going to DS. If I code my userid and PW in the URL (using IBIC_user and IBIC_pass) I don't even get the security page (signon). I also have one RUN command for each environment I have so it's easy to test a dev fex in production without moving or copying it.


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September 05, 2008, 09:57 AM
Gizmo
Tony A,

Just to warn you, when you code your userid and password in the URL, then you password will be stored in plain text in the webservers log files.


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