Performance in the editor

[Costa]

Hello:

I noticed in the latest version that, when I type a left parenthesis "(" in the editor (both sql & programming), PlSQL goes into neverland for a few seconds or longer. It is so annoying that my colleague wants to abandon pl/sql developer even though we have purchased licenses.

Is there anything that we can do about this?

Other issues:
- sometimes scrolling the content of sql/programming window with a mouse-wheel is not responsive enough especially with bigger files.
- in the Preferences dialog, scrolling with the mouse wheel seems to always scroll the left side list. Sometimes even if I click on the right side, the mouse wheel still scrolls the left side.

Feature request:

- search box for the preferences. There are so many options! Searching would help us navigate quickly to the setting I want.
- tabbed interface

Thanks

PL/SQL Developer
Version 10.0.5.1710
01.88732 - 1 user license
Windows 7 (64-bit) 6.1 Build 7601 (Service Pack 1)

Preferences
Session mode: Multi
OCI Library:
Use OCI7: False
Allow Multiple Connections: True

Using
Home: OraClient11g_home1
DLL: C:\app\bchiru\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin\oci.dll
OCI: version 11.1
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0

Character Sets
Character size: 1 byte(s)
CharSetID: 31
NCharSetID: 2000
Unicode Support: True
NLS_LANG: AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
NLS_CHARACTERSET: WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET: AL16UTF16

 

[Marco Kalter]

If a parenthesis causes such a delay then this is caused by poor database performance. To prevent the delay you can go to Tools > Preferences > Code Assistant and disable the "Automatically activated" option. Now you have to explicitly press a function key (default F6) to invoke the Code Assistant.

 

[Costa]

Thank you, that helped.