Weird Caps Lock Out-of-Sync

Toad for Oracle
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I do not think this is a problem or bug with TOAD, but I wanted to post it here for comment.

Please take a look at the following screencap:

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In that dialog, I had just typed the 'x' chars in the User field and tabbed to the password field when the "Caps Lock is On" message appeared. Now, what is out of sync there is not the warning message but the lower-case letters in the User field. Caps lock was indeed on, but the 'xxxx' string was entered as lower-case. I confirmed caps lock was on by switching to a different app and typing, and it was in upper-case.

Note: The caps-lock indicator on my keyboard was also out of sync at the time too, but when I began typing in the other app, it "caught up".

This all happened in a Windows VDI that is remote from my normal desktop environment. In the VDI, caps-lock was on, and when I typed in an app other than TOAD, it came in as upper-case. Also, my keyboard was out of sync with the VDI caps-lock state, but the VDI itself "pushed" the state down and lit up the KB.

The weird part is that while TOAD identified the correct VDI caps-lock state when the Password field was selected, chars typed in the other text fields went in as lower-case.

Cheers,
Russ

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Hi Russ,

In case you are waiting for my comment, I'll just say... There isn't anything that can be done about this in Toad. The "caps lock" dialog as well as what case appears when you type are both low-level code. Any attempt to correct the situation would surely cause some other problem (not to mention that it could probably happen anywhere else in Toad).

-John

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The whole world is caught up in this movement to 1) do everything in the cloud, 2) run all apps in the browser, and 3) use a subscription payment model for all. This makes for some oddball glitches like this one many of which have no technical solution.

My company provided me a powerful laptop with LOTS of memory, but when our client started the VDI thing, that was all a waste. Now, instead of 32GB for my apps I get only 4GB, and with the subscription model, that 4GB of virtual memory will cost more than my 32GB of physical memory over time.

I am very glad to be nearing retirement.

Cheers,
Russ

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Yeah, the good ole days of software (and the internet) are long gone.