Re: pgAdmin beta fixes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erwin Brandstetter [mailto:brandstetter(at)falter(dot)at]
> Sent: 23 October 2006 12:33
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: pgAdmin beta fixes
>
> Hi Dave!
>
> First try was a crash.
> I have an SSH connection to a remote database server. Locally
> there, the
> postgres sytem user can login without password as postgres
> database user
> (ident sameuser). So I needn't supply a password.
> On my first try pgadmin insisted I supply a password, nevertheless. I
> left the field empty and continued. pgadmin showed a couple of errors
> and left me with a "half-connected" database. Trying to refresh on a
> scheme sent pgadmin crashing.
> The same or similar bug is present in all versions from
> v1.4.2 - 1.6beta3.

OK, so that's something I've not seen before. What were the 'couple of
errors'?

> Good news: I cannot reproduce the "export bug" any more. A couple of
> dozen tries with various selects and settings, no errors.

Excellent :-)

> Minor glitch: the export dialogue window pops up on the low end of my
> screen. Unlike other dialogues (like "Find and Replace") it won't
> remember a new location.

Actually Find and Replace forgot as well if you closed the parent query
tool. I've added the positioning code to those and a bunch of other
dialogues that were missing it though - thanks.

> Also the help window has a quirk: when it is activated (and
> pgadmin main
> window is not minimized), the SQL dialogue vanishes behind
> main window.
> When I try to bring it to the foreground, the help screen vanishes. I
> cannot see export dialogue and help at the same time. (If I
> minimze main
> window before clicking help in the export dialogue, I can do
> the trick).

Yeah, that's an unfortunate side effect of the way that the Windows help
viewer seems to attach itself to the main of the app and stay on top of
it. I think that's partly why some of the Microsoft apps shrink
themselves and position the help window alongside the right of the
application these days. It doesn't happen with the builtin helpviewer
which is used on Unix and Mac, but is otherwise not quite as good as the
Microsoft one.

> The "pane shuffling crash" in the SQL dialogue window is still there.
> But that's probably the wxWindows bug you mentioned.

Yeah - they haven't fixed it yet afaik.

Regards, Dave