Version 8.0.1.1502

Disappointed here as well: still not working.

I think this issue is really annoying to a lot of users.
Any idea when we don't have to deal with ever changing windows sort order?

Can you explain what exactly goes wrong? I think this should all be fixed now.

Hi Marco,
I guess I just forgot to save the project in my test. It really seems to be fine now. I guess this fix can also be added in the relevant "PL/SQL Developer - News". I couldn't find it there in any fixed issues list.

Version 8.0.1.1502

Hi Marco,

I still have some random issues regarding messed up windows sort orders. I would guess it happens now in less than 5% of closing pl/sql-developer projects and opening them again. In that case it seems to go back to the former behavior, coming up in a sort order that I sure never had stored the project at any time. I have a feeling that it happens more often when memory gets scarce and lots of other applications are open at the same time.

• What can I check out in order for you to help finding the cause?
• Where does the window sort order actually get stored now?
• What are the relevant conditions that cause a windows sort order to get stored again?
  i.e. Does a Project-Save in any case store the windows sort order too or just when it thinks it has to?
• What relevant settings do you need to know, that could possibly affect the described behavior?

Next to the saved project file there is a .dsk file (with desktop info). All opened files are listed with a ChildListIndex entry that determines the sorted location in the Window List.

I'm not sure why loading this goes wrong on occasion, but we'll try to find a cause.

Hi Marco,
this morning one project was messed up again. I noticed that the .dsk file doesn't get saved after reorganizing windows list sort order when saving the project then, it only gets updated once I close PSD. It might help to update .dsk file in any case after a windows sort order reorg when saving projects too. It might be that PSD could not close this project in a clean way last Friday, when I used it last time. I could send you the before (messed-up)/after (resorted) versions of the PSD screenshots and the corresponding PSD .dsk files, if that is useful to you.

Good point, we can make sure the dsk file is saved always. We'll work on this and send you a pre-release.

Thank you. This still doesn't explain though, why it gets messed-up in the first place. At the time of the messed-up-window-list .dsk timestamp the windows-list was sure not showing the messed-up sort order in PSD either, that I found when reopening the project. Once I sort it and it once gets saved successfully sorted, i.e. when reopening the project it shows up sorted, it should never mess itself up, no matter when it gets saved in the .dsk later on again, unless of course, I mess up the sort order myself, which I sure would remember.

If the sort order is "messed" up, I can only imagine it returns to the unsorted list, which is the order in which the windows are displayed. Otherwise, it must be you messing things up .

Can you test this version and let me know if it works better for you?

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