REQ for improvement: RS editor/FP editor

Lohengrin

Hi folks,

I have to found two small glitches in the RS editor and the FP editor that are really annoying:

1. RS editor

Is it possible to add a function in RS editor that shows tabs and spaces like in other editors, mainly for indentation? Right now I can't detect how indentations have been made, and later in the FP editor or production manager the indentation is not consistent, because spaces and tabs have been used in an uncoordinated manner :-) Best would be an icon to show/hide invisible control symbols like tabes/spaces via an icon in the small icon menu of the editor window.

2. FP editor

It is not possible to select an empty line in the FP editor on the touchscreen to paste something in there. Therefore lotsa programmers simply fill empty lines with an exclamation mark, which is later selectable. The code looks like this then (in this case you can also see the indentation problem of 1.):

--

    !************************************************

    !

    Reset O_CycleFinished;

    Reset pauseAllowed;

    !

CrashSensorPressureAirLow;

!

CutWire;

    !

    Set pauseAllowed;

    !

SimCheck;

!

CheckInput I_JobComm_1,1,"Wait for I_JobComm_1=1";

    Reset pauseAllowed;

    Waitsignal AllocateZoneA;

!

InitTrap; 

InitWeldSourceCheck;

WeldSourceCheck Active;

!

CrashSensorPressureAirHi;

!

--

which I don't really like and it eats more bytes than needed. Is it possible to make empty lines in FP selectable?

Lohengrin2011-06-12 18:17:02

Anders S

Hi Lohengrin,

Thank you for your suggestions. We are planning to improve the RAPID editor to the 5.15 release. I will forward your suggestions to the RS Program Manager.

Lohengrin

Hi Anders,

thanks for your support; I'd love to get a better editor in RS, as even today I edited code the whole day and stepped over some stuff that can get improved.

Here's another one:

When using the search function in RS editor it would be good if the dialogue would remember the last choice of the popup list in what range to search (Search in...: current document, whole system.., can't look for the exact range and labeling as I'm not connected to a controller right now). I mostly search for stuff in the whole system, and everytime I select a new search term in the editor window and click on search, I have to choose again in what range I'd like to search, as the popup list falls back to 'current document'.

Thanks for any improvements!

Lohengrin2011-06-13 20:23:00

Anders S

Hi Lohengrin,

Thanks again for your suggestions, I have added this one also to the "wish list".