I really like this feature since it makes the connection color much more obvious, and I remember discussing this before and saying it would be good to have. We are really needing this in our isolated enclave since we need to be able to distinguish production connections from others. I also remember John saying that it would be part of TOAD Themes.
Well, the whole theme thing is a bummer. It would be helpful if there was a theme that was TOAD's "normal" appearance, but there isn't. None of those I tried even comes close, and I am afraid that I won't be able to persuade folks to use themes because it makes TOAD look so different from what they are used to. None of us use themes, and since they "skin" TOAD so extensively, no one will want to use one just for this feature.
Bummer. But, I think I agreed previously that putting it inside themes was the way to go. Or maybe it was the ONLY way it could be done. I don't remember. It would just be nice to have a theme that was TOAD's "normal" appearance.
Cheers,
Russ
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It was the only way that I could do it.
The least themey theme is probably Steam. If the yellow highlights bother you then you might try Frost.
-John
What would be nice would be to be able to select "Enable Color Schemes" to get at that other check box but without actually choosing a color scheme. Is actually choosing a color scheme the way it has to work?
Cheers,
Russ
When themes are enabled, it gives us access to the tech that colors the title bar and border. I really tried to make it work without themes because it seems like such a dumb requirement from a user perspective, but it just wasn't possible.
Aqua Light Slate isn't bad.
Well, they are all "yucky". One of our team--I won't say it isn't me--is visually impaired, and each of the themes is problematic in some way. Any theme that is all gray is definitely out as well as any that are brightly colored. I think Turquoise Gray is the best of them if only because it highlights in blue instead of a different color gray. My request is for a "color scheme" that exactly matches TOAD's "normal" appearance.
Anyway, I am wondering about that new "Confirmation is required..." dialog. We are required to specify a login message per STIG, but now that TOAD is actually displaying that, couldn't we get a way to disable displaying it either globally or by connection?
Cheers,
Russ
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I love this feature. But I have several hundred connections spread across about 25 instances and quite a few customers. Trying to keep track of colours is a bit confusing, what would be really great is to be able to define rules that 'For example': connection to a database instance with name 'CustomerProd' would choose a colour based on the customer colour ( green, red, blue) and the instance type (Prod= bright, test=less bright). But even a random setting where no two connections ended with the same colour would be great
HI Tim,
Thanks for the feedback. I'll log an enhancement request along these lines.
-John
Next beta will have this. I think this was a great idea and I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. You can define rules for connection colors based on TNSNames/LDAP name, username, Connection Alias, or custom fields. You can tell it to always use a specific color when a rule matches, or select from a range
Those are the default rules in the screen shot below, but you'll be able to modify them however you like.
I really like this idea. I have used connection color in Toad since it was a thing, and this is a great addition to the feature.
Cheers,
Russ
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Here's another thought:
There are a lot of color choices now. I added over 100 color choices here back in version 15.1 when we added color themes. But I think a lot of these color choices are undesirable. For example, most of the off-whiteish colors are pretty hard to see...although maybe in a dark theme they would be more visible.
Anyway - would anyone welcome a tab on that "Color suggestion rules" window where you can choose which colors to include/exclude as possible choices? Or is it unnecessary because they are easy enough to avoid?
-John
