Comments on: Source highlighting using NetManage Rumba

By: graybeard52

graybeard52 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:40:33 +0000

IMO, Go with Tom’s answer. The lpex editor in WDSC colors the text automagically, and gives you a host of other features. As of V5R4 its still a no additional cost feature. the colors are customizable to each user.

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:59:12 +0000

Quite a while ago one of our developers used a utility to add color based on IF/End combinations. The utility inserted the hex code for the various display attributes in position 5 of the RPG source. At first this looked pretty cool. Over time that developer left, the programs were modified and the colors were not maintained. Needless to say, the colors soon become an annoyance, rather than a help. Some of the colors are a bit difficult to read. I finally developed a procedure to remove the colors.

Based on our experience, I recommend proceeding slowly with this to be sure you like the results.

By: teandy

teandy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:36 +0000

There is a sample program here that may help:

http://search400.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid3_gci865279,00.html#

You might also try a google search for a progam called CHGCOLOR. It allows you to change the color of a comment line using function keys F7 and F8.

By: astradyne

astradyne — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:37:00 +0000

I literally stumbled over this site (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/5581/tips.htm) and remembered your question.

There’s a utility here called SEU Magic that makes use of the user-defined F7 and F8 keys to add colour attributes at the cursor location.

I haven’t tried it because I tend to use Client Access with colours mapped to Ctrl key combinations, but the source looks straight forward enough.

Anyway, I hope it helps.

All the best

Jonathan

By: chuckm

chuckm — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:22:36 +0000

Thanks for the input. That’s exactly the way we do it today…copy source from other programs that’s already hilighted. Years ago, I wrote a program like you described to generate the attributte bytes.

I’m still hoping to find a way to do it directly.