Save/Reload all windows

[Ming]

Is there a way to save/load all windows in PL/SQL developer. I usually have many SQL windows open but I do not want to save/load them one by one when I exit out/back in. PL/SQL is doing that when it crashes (and recover) but it seems absurd to manully "crash" the app everytime just to preserve the windows. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks.

 

[Marco van der Linden]

On the command line add 'desktop=my_desktop'. This will restore all windows which were left open when PLD was last closed.

 

[Ming]

Thanks for the reply...Do I still have to specify a filename for each window to be saved? If I have 10+ of them open it get tedious.

It would be nice if there is a "save desktop" function that just save all the windows (use a temp file name unless I do specify a file name for a paticular window). Then I can "load desktop" to bring them back. Better yet if I cam "Save As" on the desktop (just specify one name for the current desktop), that way I an work on multiple tasks with each has a set of windows...just a wish. Thanks.

 

[Marco van der Linden]

No you don't need to define any filename. The command line would look something like

"C:\Program Files\PL-SQL Developer\PlSqlDev.exe" desktop=my_desktop

This will simple save all your windows in the same way crash-recovery works.

Even better, you can define multiple shortcuts for PLD with different desktop params in case you are working on different instances, e.g. desktop=develop, desktop=test.

 

[Ming]

That seems to work great... I realize that I can check off the "Ask to save new windows" in the preference then it will not prompt for each window (while it still saves the desktop windows). Thanks Marco!