7.1.2 Minor nuisance

[Marco van der Linden]

It looks like the Syntax Highlighting plug-in is not working in the Test window, whereas it used to work in previous versions. Other windows are OK as far as I can tell.

Anyway, just as the topic says not a real problem, but it would be nice to have it working again.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Seems to work fine for me. Can you elaborate?

 

[Marco van der Linden]

It appears to work as long as the highlighted names are not compound. I have defined a number of commonly used packages and tables with the Syntax Highlighting plug-in. Now if I would type

select party_id
 from   HZ_PARTIES;

The highlighting works, but if I would use

DECLARE
  l_party_id  hz_parties.party_id%ROWTYPE;
  ...

The highlighting (and case) disappears the moment I type the period after hz_parties.

Hope this is clear enough, otherwise I will have to send you some screenshots to demonstrate.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Is this different in the Test Window compared to other Window types?

 

[Marco van der Linden]

Sorry, forgot to add that observation. No it appears to happen in all windows (Command window excluded of course).

Which, as matter of fact, makes it somewhat more than a _minor_ nuisance.

 

[FrankB]

Hello,

today i updated from v7 to current v7.1 and have now the same problem.

Writing Code in an Edit-Window:
1) The Syntax-Highlighing-PlugIn finds my predefined database-objects, highlights them and PLSQLDEV make them look uppercase.
2) When adding a period after an PackageName for appending a function name, the highlighting is lost.
3) After writing some characters from the function name the uppercase is lost too.

I have to say that I'm really unhappy with this new feature:-(

Best regards,
Frank

 

[Theod]

Hi,

please change it back to the old behavior.

 

[FrankB]

Hello,

didn't try 7.1.3 yet. Are there any improvements of this functionality?
Is this perhaps planned for a future release?

 

[Marco Kalter]

In 7.1.3 this still works as you described above.