[Squirrel-sql-users] Re: First impressions

>>>- I hate the MDI interface/subwindows. I usually only work with one
>>>database at once - I only want that window up. Even when I do work with
>>>two databases, I'd prefer they be entirely separate windows. The connect
>>>stuff could be a dialog box that pops up when you first start the
>>>program and when you hit ctrl-N or something (new connection).
>>
>> As I said recently to somebody, this is a religious issue. I personally
like
>> the MDI interface and hate the SDI one, this was the main reason I
stopped
>> using Netbeans. A possibility for the future when the code has been
cleaned
>> up would be making it an option as it is in the current version of
Netbeans.
>> You specify whether you want an SDI or an MDI interface.
>
> Okay, I'm going to take a shot at trying to convince you. ;) I'd be
> happy with a preference (though I'm likely to disagree with you about
> which the default should be). Please forgive my long-windedness...

Another possible option is to have an options to 'spawn' a MDI child window
into a separate SDI window.  I remember seeing an application (the name
escapes me at the moment) that allowed you to do such a thing (i.e. take the
contents of a JInteralFrame and dump them into a JFrame).

> I think SQuirreL is in the second category: only one window necessary to
> do work, multiple connections can be thought of pretty independently, so
> should be in fully independent windows. The grouping of resultsets

I'd agree with Scott here.  As a DBA/developer, I am often connected to
multiple databases at the same time.  I'd like to have a separate window for
each connection.  As well, I use virtual-desktops, and having each
connection in a separate window allows me move different connections to
different desktops.

> Anyway, thanks for your responses. I'm encouraged and very much looking
> forward to ditching Oracle's various SQL-Plus, SQL Worksheet, and SQL
> Scratchpad things. (Each version of each one has completely different
> deficiencies, any of which I hate. Ergh.)

I'm in the same boat.  I'd like to dump Oracle's stuff.  I'm still looking
for the tool to replace them.


Maury...

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Maury Hammel
Cronus Technologies Inc.

http://www.cronustech.com