codefori / codefori/vscode-ibmi-renderer
Use of Relative Positioning Fields/Literals All Rendered on Line 1
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- JavaScript
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Description
Both display files (DSPF) and printer files (PRTF) allow the use of relative positioning on the same line. For example, in a display file, one can omit the line number and specific `+nn`. This will position the current field/literal "nn" columns after the last end position; on the same line number.
In the attached example, the Code4i IBM i Renderer places all relatively positioned fields/literals on line 1 as shown below. Note that the column positioning of the fields/literals appears to be correct; it is just placing all of them on line 1.

Whenever a relative position is used, the renderer needs to determine the ending position of the previous field/literal and then apply the appropriate offset to position the current element in on the same line. Below is an example of how the format should be rendered:

Example DDS DSPF source:
[code4iview.dspf.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20300505/code4iview.dspf.txt)
|Context|Version|
|-|-|
|Code for IBM i version|2.15.3|
|Visual Studio Code version|1.100.2|
|Operating System|win32_x64|
Active extensions
```
.NET Install Tool (vscode-dotnet-runtime): 2.3.3
COBOL (cobol): 25.4.30
Code Coverage for IBM i (code-coverage-ibmi): 0.1.7
Code for IBM i Walkthroughs (vscode-ibmi-walkthroughs): 0.5.0
Configuration Editing (configuration-editing): 1.0.0
Db2 for IBM i (vscode-db2i): 1.12.0
Dev Containers (remote-containers): 0.413.0
ESLint (vscode-eslint): 3.0.10
Emmet (emmet): 1.0.0
Error Lens (errorlens): 3.26.0
Git (git): 1.0.0
Git Base (git-base): 1.0.0
GitHub (github): 0.0.1
GitHub Authentication (github-authentication): 0.0.2
GitHub Pull Requests (vscode-pull-request-github): 0.110.0
GitLens — Git supercharged (gitlens): 17.1.0
HTML CSS Support (vscode-html-css): 2.0.13
IBM i Debug (ibmidebug): 2.0.2
IBM i Notebooks (vscode-ibmi-notebooks): 0.0.6
IBM i Project Explorer (vscode-ibmi-projectexplorer): 2.12.3
IBM i Renderer (vscode-displayfile): 0.1.3
JSON Language Features (json-language-features): 1.0.0
Jira and Bitbucket (Atlassian Labs) (atlascode): 3.8.0
Merge Conflict (merge-conflict): 1.0.0
Node Debug Auto-attach (debug-auto-launch): 1.0.0
Nx Console (angular-console): 18.49.3
Path Intellisense (path-intellisense): 2.10.0
Prettier - Code formatter (prettier-vscode): 11.0.0
Reload (reload): 0.0.7
Source Orbit (vscode-sourceorbit): 1.0.2
TODO Highlight (vscode-todo-highlight): 1.0.5
Todo Tree (todo-tree): 0.0.226
TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features (typescript-language-features): 1.0.0
WSL (remote-wsl): 0.99.0
YAML (vscode-yaml): 1.18.0
```
Remote system
|Setting|Value|
|-|-|
|IBM i OS|V7R4M0|
|Tech Refresh|7|
|CCSID Origin|37|
|Runtime CCSID|37|
|Default CCSID|37|
|SSHD CCSID|?|
|cqsh|true|
|SQL|Enabled
|Source dates|Disabled
### Enabled features
|/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin|/usr/bin|/QSYS.lib/ILEDITOR.lib|/QSYS.LIB|/QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin|/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk80|
|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|bash|attr|GETNEWLIBL.PGM|QZDFMDB2.PGM|startDebugService.sh|64bit|
|chsh|iconv|||||
|find|setccsid|||||
|git|uname|||||
|grep||||||
|ls||||||
|md5sum||||||
|sort||||||
|stat||||||
|tar||||||
|tn5250||||||
Shell env
```bash
BUILDLIB=QGPL
CURLIB=QGPL
PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED=N
PATH=/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/bin
SHELL=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
TZ=5,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
_=/QOpenSys/usr/bin/env
```
Variants
```json
{
"american": "#@$",
"local": "#@$",
"qsysNameRegex": {}
}
```
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