How Can I Download v6.x. 7x is Unusable.

[scottwmackey]

I don't know what happened in 7.x, but the folks at Allround need much better regression testing. I upgraded a few days ago from 6.x and several features that I use all the time are completely useless.

1) Parentheses matching in SQL windows doesn't work at all.

2) If I map the Tab key to Edit/Selection/Indent in Key Configuration, the Tab key no longer works to go between fields in the Search/Find dialog box.

3) If I map Alt+Left to Editor: Navigate Back and F3 to Edit/Repeat Last Find, and for instance have the following text:

xx
xx
xx
xx
xx
xx

and put the cursor above the first xx, Find xx, press F3 five times, it will walk through each xx. When I press Alt-Left, however, it takes me back to the location of the cursor before the first find, i.e. above the xxs. It used to walk me back up the xxs, one find at a time. What's even worse, if is just press F3 one more time, finding again the first xx, and then press Alt-Left, it takes me to where I was prior to positioning my cursor at the top of the xxs. If I press F3 and Alt-Left again, I am now at the position prior to that and so on until I eventually run out of prior locations. In short, Navigate Back is clearly unaware of Find actions.

I need these features to work. So, does anybody know how to get a 6.x version of PL/SQL Developer. Support isn't answering my e-mails.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Dezsoe Kados]

The download link is:

http://www.allroundautomations.com/registered/plsqldev/plsqldev606.zip

But I would not say that PLSD 7.x is unusable. I'm using it all the time...

 

[Marco Kalter]

1) Parentheses matching in SQL windows doesn't work at all.

Works fine for me. What exactly goes wrong? Note that the parentheses are now highlighted. In 6.0 the cursor would move to the other parenthesis.

2) If I map the Tab key to Edit/Selection/Indent in Key Configuration, the Tab key no longer works to go between fields in the Search/Find dialog box.

Tab is a system key that you should probably not reassign. There is no need to map this to Edit/Selection/Indent though, since the tab key already behaves like this.

3) If I map Alt+Left to Editor: Navigate Back and F3 to Edit/Repeat Last Find, and for instance have the following text:

We'll check it out. It may be that Repeat Last Find does not add a navigation mark, which of course it should.

 

[scottwmackey]

Nevermind. It is working now. I think this all may have been a result of a corrupted preferences file. When I upgraded to 7.x, I suddenly started getting a message saying "You have preferencesets [sic] with the same definition, this might now work correct [sic]." I ignored it for a few days then ended up deleting them, including System Default because there were two copies of that too. I then created a new personal preference set, but things still didn't work such as the Tab key not indenting the selection. So I added the key to the Key Configurations. Then I noticed the behavior in the Find dialog so I removed it. Tab no longer indented. Here's where I am not sure of what exactly happened. I don't know if I just happened to finally shut down all instances of PL/SQL Developer or if it was the first time I rebooted my machine, but today, issues 1 and 2 are no longer issues. It would be really great if 3 could get fixed.

But while I am at it, there is one more editor behavior change that I find annoying. In 6.x if I double clicked in the middle of a word, it would select the whole word. I could then drag right to select more words, or even parts of words. Now it just selects the whole word and the drag doesn't work. This was very useful for selecting stuff like xxxx.xxxxx. I didn't have to align the cursor right at the start of the word.