The macro editor view enables you to insert, modify, delete lines in a generated macro file so as to complement or modify the COBOL code of the macrostructure. It offers the standard editing functions and features of LPEX Editor (program parsing, view filtering...) and with a system of colors, it enables you to clearly identify lines and tags in the macrostructure.
You can open the PDP Macro editor from a MacroName.cblgen file which is saved either in Design Explorer view if the macro has been created locally or in the Navigator view if the macro has been generated in VA Pacbase and imported in the Design pespective. A right-click on a MacroName.cblgen file and opens the PDP Macro editor which consists of an editor view and of a macrostructure tags tree tab. This page is presenting the editor view which looks like the following one (indicated by the red arrow in figure 1):
All these colors can be modified in a wizard accessible via
.A context menu enables you to show up the tags or to hide them, you just have to right-click in the macro editor and select Without tags.
orThe editor instantly displays all updates performed in the Macrostructure tags tree view and when you select a tag in the tree, the item selected is highlighted in the macro editor.