Large data editor: suggestion

[Aviga]

Hello,

I have been asked this question by several colleagues that I trained to PL/SQL Developer: how may I display a large textual value returned by a query?
I showed them hoe to invoke the large data editor.

But then, second (repeated) question: how can we see column/line position in this editor?

From a colleague: "Maybe we should suggest a byte position indicator to pl/sql developer support. It is invaluable for editing large textual data we see in EDI and Interfacing tables."

I tend to agree with this suggestion. For the time being, I proposed the person to copy the text into a program window.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Avigael

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.

Note that you can associate an external editor to a column (see chapter 19.6 in the User's Guide). There is no copying/pasting involved, the external editor will immediately be launched with the column contents, and the column value will be updated when the external editor is closed/saved.

 

[ScottMattes]

I wrote the Scale plug-in for this reason. We don't have to use the large data editor, but if you wanted to use it

- copy the scale.dll into the plugin sub-dir
- go into the large data editor
- select the contents and copy to the clipboard
- start the scale plugin (it will use either what is selected or the contents of the clipboard)

 

[Aviga]

Thanks Scott. This is a nice plugin.

Cheers,