Window list
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TenGor
Member³
Hy,
i had there an other enhancement:
When i scroll through the windows with + and switch from window A to window B.
After that i want to go back to window A.
But this isn't work. I had to "scroll" through all other windows to come back to the origin window A...
So it would be nice if PL/SQL Dev. scrolls like Opera. There i can toggle between two windows.
i had there an other enhancement:
When i scroll through the windows with + and switch from window A to window B.
After that i want to go back to window A.
But this isn't work. I had to "scroll" through all other windows to come back to the origin window A...
So it would be nice if PL/SQL Dev. scrolls like Opera. There i can toggle between two windows.
This has been implemented for the upcoming 6.1 release.
Why not? I can simply press Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle back and forth through the windows.
To toggle between 2 windows, you can subsequently press Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab.
Stew Stryker
Member³
Just for comparison purposes, the excellent text editor UltraEdit toggles between the most recent windows, depending on how quickly you hit Ctrl-Tab.
So if you want to go to the previous window, Ctrl-Tab will take you there. If you don't press it again for a few seconds, Ctrl-Tab will take you back to the first window. But if you press Ctrl-Tab right away, it'll go to the next oldest window, etc. Or it does it by order of the windows tabs, I forget.
But the toggling is pretty cool, so long as you know that's what it's going do. Otherwise it's maddening.
So if you want to go to the previous window, Ctrl-Tab will take you there. If you don't press it again for a few seconds, Ctrl-Tab will take you back to the first window. But if you press Ctrl-Tab right away, it'll go to the next oldest window, etc. Or it does it by order of the windows tabs, I forget.
But the toggling is pretty cool, so long as you know that's what it's going do. Otherwise it's maddening.
PL/SQL Developer is a great tool, but I can't get used to its Ctrl-Tabbing behaviour.
What I believe most people are used to, Ctrl-Tab should work like Alt-Tab in Windows. A history of last visited windows is used based on what happens when you RELEASE the Alt key. The current window should then be put in the top of the internal history, pushing down the others. Pressing Alt-Tab next time, takes you to the second item in the history. Pressing Alt-Tab without releasing the Alt key traverses the history from the second item and down.
In PL/SQL Developer, the history seems to be based upon what window you click on with the mouse in the windows list (I use v6.0.4) and uses this history when ctrl-tab is pressed. There is no way of altering the traverse order without using the mouse.
What I believe most people are used to, Ctrl-Tab should work like Alt-Tab in Windows. A history of last visited windows is used based on what happens when you RELEASE the Alt key. The current window should then be put in the top of the internal history, pushing down the others. Pressing Alt-Tab next time, takes you to the second item in the history. Pressing Alt-Tab without releasing the Alt key traverses the history from the second item and down.
In PL/SQL Developer, the history seems to be based upon what window you click on with the mouse in the windows list (I use v6.0.4) and uses this history when ctrl-tab is pressed. There is no way of altering the traverse order without using the mouse.
In the next release you have a global navigation function, which allows you to navigate back and forward in editors. This works within a single editor (when jumping to an absolute position in the editor), between different editors (when moving from one editor to another), and between different windows. It should allow you to easily find your way back and forth.
Ed Holloman
Member²
Until that happens (release of 6.1), to the OP, if you don't mind dinking with the registry with regedit (or other editor), there is a registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Allround Automations\PL/SQL Developer\WindowList
REG_DWORD named 'Count'
having an initial decimal value of 8 (IIRC). This is the maximum number of windows in the windows list before it will start to scroll. I changed mine to decimal 20 and it works fine. It takes up more vertical space, but I can toggle the window list on/off.
Regards,
Ed Holloman
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Allround Automations\PL/SQL Developer\WindowList
REG_DWORD named 'Count'
having an initial decimal value of 8 (IIRC). This is the maximum number of windows in the windows list before it will start to scroll. I changed mine to decimal 20 and it works fine. It takes up more vertical space, but I can toggle the window list on/off.
Regards,
Ed Holloman
