I've been trying out the trial version and quite like it. However, I'm
puzzled by some of the 'features/bugs' - my main gripes are:
- Reading a SQL file containing a complete package definition doesn't
work - the '/' gets raised as an error and the resulting package is corrupt.
This is especially annoying as this even occurs on files saved from the
developer itself!
- Package editor sometimes dies if you right click on a function and choose
'Select' - I get 'List index out of bounds'.
- The Objects browser sometimes incorrectly displays objects as being
invalid.
- It took a long time to find our how to stop 'smart' tab function i.e. the
indentation of lines according to the position of the second word on the
previous line. E.G. a line whose preceding line started 'IF X' will have an
indentation to line up with 'X' which is 3 spaces. If the preceding line had
been 'THEN X', the indentation would be 5 spaces. This wouldn't be so bad,
except that the editor doesn't remember these varying indentations when you
try to get back to the previous indentation level. Yuck!
- The VCS plug-in seems very shaky. The menu items are often greyed out for
no apparent reason, re-opening the project *may* allow you to check-in and
check-out. Check-out with 'Open files in IDE' doesn't actually bring the
correct file/package into the IDE - which given the problems with reading
SQL files might be a blessing!
- Block indentation can only be done by pressing a button, it's much more
intuitive to use tab and shift-tab ala PLedit.
However, I do quite like the integration of the editing, SQL and test
windows. The browsing of schema objects is pretty quick and it's very easy
to query table data. The easy access to the profiler is excellent. The
editor is pretty good, I like the shift-rightclick to get the definition of
code. The listing of objects within the editor is good, but would be better
if it could cope with nested functions and procedures. I've not used the
debugger, perhaps this would be the clincher for me.
On the whole, I'm not sure! I feel that I'm still fighting the interface.
I'll give it a few more days.
Andy
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 03:47:10 CST