Recently, I began to prepare a new working environment, because I want to replace the old PC. After installing PLD, SqlWindow in QBE places :var1, instead, as formerly, the entered value. How to restore the old behavior? On the old PC it is working normally, but on it, the PLD was upgraded. I guess it's a setting, but I have not managed to find it.

Please help me, because this behavior with :var1 ... is not pleasant to work with.

This indicates that you are connected to a Unicode database, and that your Oracle Client uses a non-Unicode character set. There are 2 solutions:

1. Switch the Oracle Client to Unicode character set UTF8
2. Disable Unicode support through the preferences (Tools > Preferences > Oracle / Options)

Here we go again...

Once more, I've upgraded from 9 to 10 and again this problem appears, but this time solution nr. 2 does not work. Why, why, why???

I just want to upgrade without this prloblem again, please.
Tried to set other OCI but it ignores any of my setting, again...

This is to much for me today, and I ask myself should I switch to another product.

Preferences
Session mode: Multi
OCI Library: C:\orant\des\BIN
Use OCI7: False
Allow Multiple Connections: True

Using
Home: OraOdac11g_home1
DLL: C:\app\ddukic\product\11.1.0\client_1\oci.dll
OCI: version 11.1
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0

Character Sets
Character size: 1 byte(s)
CharSetID: 0
NCharSetID: 1
Unicode Support: False
NLS_LANG: CROATIAN_CROATIA.EE8MSWIN1250
NLS_CHARACTERSET: EE8ISO8859P2
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET: AL16UTF16

Nothing should have changed. Can you send me an example by e-mail with some screenshots?

I've sent you an e-mail.

Please, add an option to disable child window query with new "Auto refresh child window" feature on child window itself (with conversion m_ variable to value passed from parent window), and also please add preference to set default option on this.

Thanks.

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.