Command Window Sizing Problem 6.0.0.840

[RMC Developer]

I am currently running into a repetitive problem with Developer 6.0.0.840 in the commmand window.

The window will not scroll horizontally at all, but rather will wrap all text onto a new line. This causes a large amount of grief as tables with several columns become absolutely unreadable. Even worse though, is that any SQL command that exceeds the size of the window will be wrapped, and when I attempt to execute them , the command is truncated.

I haven't found a way to turn this feature off. If anyone could help, that would be much appreciated.

 

[Marco Kalter]

The Command Window should never wrap. How long is such a wrapped line?

 

[RMC Developer]

The wrapping is complete defined by the size of the window it seems.

eg if the window is 20 characters long, then the text is wrapped at 20 characters, but if the window is resized to be 30 characters long then the wrapping changes to match.

 

[RMC Developer]

It seems that things have rectified themselves though. All yesterday, and for part of this morning, it was causing no end of grief. And then, after the lunch-time reboot, things have settled back to what I remember from previous versions.

Possibly it was a minor crash.

Thank you for your response though.

 

[whip]

I found the same problem. If I open a new command window then long lines are wrapped in there, too. Setting linesize to 1000 does not help (I don't know if it should have any effect, though.)
If I open a new instance of PL/SQL Developer then command windows opened there do not wrap text.

 

[whip]

I think I can reproduce the problem. Follow these steps:
1. Start PL/SQL Developer and connect with any user.
2. Create a new command window.
3. Enter "desc all_tables", this creates long lines which are not wrapped (yet).
4. Open a new SQL window.
5. Execute this query there: SELECT xmlelement(a, dummy).getclobval() FROM dual;
6. Click on the "..." icon in the CLOB field to bring up the Large Data Editor
7. Close the Large Data Editor (push Cancel)
8. Go to the Command Window: its contents are wrapped now.

 

[Marco Kalter]

You're right, I could reproduce this. We'll fix it.