January 31, 2011
A question recently came up on how to use UltraEdit to show the list of all of the objects in a Dovetail SchemaEditor Data Dictionary file. A Data Dictionary file is a complete definition of a schema. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I rarely use complete schema files, preferring instead to work with simpler schemascript files. Although I often use UltraEdit for editing text files, I rarely use UltraEdit for editing XML files. I prefer Visual Studio, with its integrated support for XSD, which gives me intellisense and syntax checking. Regardless, I dove into UltraEdit configuration, and with a bit of help from Sam Tyson, I figured out how to make this work. Function List We’ll use UltraEdit’s function list functionality to make this work. In my version (UltraEdit 16), it’s accessed by the menu: View –> Views/Lists –>…
Using UltraEdit’s function list with Dovetail Schema files
January 31, 2011
A question recently came up on how to use UltraEdit to show the list of all of the objects in a Dovetail SchemaEditor Data Dictionary file. A Data Dictionary file is a complete definition of a schema. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I rarely use complete schema files, preferring instead to work with simpler schemascript files. Although I often use UltraEdit for editing text files, I rarely use UltraEdit for editing XML files. I prefer Visual Studio, with its integrated support for XSD, which gives me intellisense and syntax checking. Regardless, I dove into UltraEdit configuration, and with a bit of help from Sam Tyson, I figured out how to make this work. Function List We’ll use UltraEdit’s function list functionality to make this work. In my version (UltraEdit 16), it’s accessed by the menu: View –> Views/Lists –>…