Re: Your comments on AA's PL/SQL Developer

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:47:10 -0000, "Andrew Hardy" <nobody_at_spam.from.news.AdvanticaTech.com> wrote:

>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:
>
>1. 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!
>
>2. Package editor sometimes dies if you right click on a function and choose
>'Select' - I get 'List index out of bounds'.
>
>3. The Objects browser sometimes incorrectly displays objects as being
>invalid.
>
>4. 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!
>
>5. 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!
>
>6. 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
>
>

[Quoted] Well, I like it. I haven't quite hit most of your points, but I've seen #3 a lot.

I find it to be an excellent help in getting what I need done. As for the bugs, email them. They may just fix them.

Brian Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 13:55:36 CET