I’ve just installed 10.6 and I love some new things (split window in editor,
easy comparing using ctrl+drag, no more splitting qualified names) but there are
a couple of issues.
1 - Every time I go to a new tab in the editor window if I have the Data Grid
view folded down at the bottom of the screen it feels the need to scroll up and
down at its usual (far to slow) speed. This is getting very irritating very
quickly.
2 - We keep our packages in a single file so the format goes:
create or replace package yadda
is
......
end yadda;
/
/**/
create or replace package body yadda
is
....
end yadda;
/
Now when I format the header tab it removes the trailing line feed after the
slash so what I get is:
end yadda;
//**/
create or replace package body yadda
is
I can’t find any option to turn this off and it’s potentially quite dangerous.
After looking through Toad’s online help, and doing a help search on ‘font’ and
then spending 2 hours searching with both Google and Bing, I still can not find
where to set the font so that when I copy/paste out of my TOAD editor window TO
an Outlook Email (or word doc) it does not give me that damn MS Shell Dlg 2
font.
Sorry that I’m a little pissed off, but you would think that the developers
would know that
For starters it would help to have an understanding of the clipboard and how it
is treated by applications. When you put normal text on the clipboard then all
that is present is the text. It is up to your application receiving the
clipboard contents via paste to set the font. So, in Outlook if the font is not
as you want it then chances are you have set the font in a way that you do not
like. If you copy text as rich text format then a different clipboard format is
used that retains syntax coloring, font selection, etc. If you enable that
option then your Toad font will be retained in Outlook as will your syntax
highlighting and other display properties.
I discovered that I still have version 9.2 on this same machine which gives:
SELECT ‘Michael’
FROM DUAL
WHERE dummy = ‘X’ ;
when I paste. I don’t know if yahoogroups or your email client will translate
this as I see it right now, but fyi, what I am seeing in the email is exactly as
it appears in the TOAD editor window … all colors retained and Courier font
retained.
So what option on my 9.2 install is different than on my 10.5 install?
I know that I set this parameter, I just can’t remember how to get back to it.
Verify that your Toad font is set correctly. Options|Editor|Display. If you are
on a normal English copy of Windows and you see Tahoma as your Editor font then
it is the same as MS Shell Dlg2. As I understand it, MS Shell Dlg2 is a pointer
so to speak for Tahoma in your Windows installation. Other installations of
Windows, in particular those for users in other countries or those using a
non-English (maybe American English) Locale will have MS Shell Dlg2 mapped to
something else. When I take a normal, default copy of Toad 10.1/5/6 and copy in
rich text format and paste into Outlook I see MS Shell Dlg2 exactly as you are
showing. It sounds like your Toad font selection is not fixed width as you
intend. The default font selection was changed to MS Shell Dlg2 a few releases
back for full Unicode support out of the box.
Sorry if I am sounding a little dense but if I understand you correctly you are
telling me to
Dear Toad users,
After looking through Toad’s online help, and doing a help search on ‘font’ and
then spending 2 hours searching with both Google and Bing, I still can not find
where to set the font so that when I copy/paste out of my TOAD editor window TO
an Outlook Email (or word doc) it does not give me that damn MS Shell Dlg 2
font.
Sorry that I’m a little pissed off, but you would think that the developers
would know that
I never want to copy/paste from a non-proportional font to a proportional
one.
Since this is a super obvious annoyance, it would be super easy to find the
solution in the TOAD help files.
Now that that’s off my chest, would somebody be so kind as to tell me where the
option is to retain the current font during the copy/paste operations described
above? I know that it’s doable because I’ve done it on earlier versions of TOAD.
My current version is: 10.5.1.3
And again, my apologies to TOAD developers, I know they work really hard to make
finding things easy.
I will need to check the old version against the new and see what differences
there are. In short there is no way to change the clipboard font. If there are
diffs between an older version of Toad and the current then it may be due to an
Editor upgrade that we did a few years back.
Sorry if I am sounding a little dense but if I understand you correctly you are
telling me to
Go to Options|Editor|Display and set the font to Tahoma.
I went to Options|Editor|Display and found that my font was set to Courier
(which is what I want) so I set it to Tahoma. The result was terrible. Tahoma is
proportional (not fixed) so the result was that all of me Editor windows now
show ‘iiiiiiii’ as taking up half the space of ‘HHHHHHHH’. Obviously this is
inaccaptable for coding so I set it back to Courier.
I must not be understanding correctly what you are asking me to do.
You said “in closing” but I’m going to reopen it. I just
copied and pasted text from a Toad 10.6.0.42 editor into both Outlook and Word,
and it came through in each case in a combination of Courier and Courier New
(which is a different puzzle, why the comments are Courier but the rest is
Courier New). So it can be done. So the question is: what do I have set
differently from you? Editor/Display/Fonts/Editor is Courier New, regular, 9
point; Editor/Behavior/Languages/PLSQL/Highlighting/practically everything/Style
type: default font. Or maybe it’s an option somewhere in Word? Word
Options, Advanced, Cut Copy and Paste, Pasting from other programs, Keep source
formatting; and the same in Outlook Editor Options.
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US Seed & Trait Commercial IT - Data Management Team
Monsanto Company
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I tried Courier New, regular, 9 point but no change. As for the theory that it
could be a Outlook or Word option, the fact that my TOAD V9 ( which is on the
same desktop maching as my TOAD V10) properly retains the font, would seem to be
evidence to the contrary.
Joseph E. Meyers I
Banner Support Specialist / Adjunct Lecturer
Cayuga Community College
197 Franklin Street T331
Auburn, NY 13021
AIM /EMAIL: joe.meyers@cayuga-cc.edu
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