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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2017

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Ability to Change Text Color for Specific Content in LPEX Editor

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Our team uses Rational Developer for i to edit large quantities of RPG, SQL and CL source. Our productivity is reduced by the lack of visual contrast in colors as the current version appears to not have a means to change the font color of If/Endif statements (currently olive green), work variables/subprocedure names (currently white) and comment lines (currently pink).


Use Case:

1. Open source member
2. Begin looking at source
3. Attempt to find various instances of variables but get slowed down due to lack of contrast in colors.
4. Attempt to remedy the issue by the following steps: Click on Window > Preferences > LPEX Editor sub-menu > Appearance sub-menu > set palette = 'black' > set styles to black background and vibrant green foreground > click Apply > click OK.
5. If/Endif/Return/work variables/subprocedure names/comment lines remain the same colors as before the Preferences edits.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 5, 2017

    Ability to change text color for specific content is already available in RDi and can be found under: Window -> Preferences -> LPEX Editor -> Parsers -> Parser Styles.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 1, 2017

    Hi SRinStL314,
    I had not tried that but I just now did and that resolved my issue, thank you!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 1, 2017

    Under the 'LPEX Editor' heading you mentioned, have you tried the settings under 'Parsers' then 'Parser Styles'? There are more granular color settings there.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 28, 2017

    Attachment (Use case): Current Text Color Example

    Text Color Exam...
    Text Color Example.png
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 28, 2017

    Attachment (Use case): Current LPEX Editor Settings Image

    Current LPEX Ed...
    Current LPEX Editor Settings Image.png

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