Options - Window-List bar

These options govern some of the appearance of the Window-List bar. Other options of this bar can be obtained by right-clicking the bar.

Group Data Display and Chart windows with their parent window

This option controls the order which the buttons appear in the window-list bar. By default, the buttons are grouped by window-type; all the Database Explorer buttons are shown, followed by Run SQL buttons, Query Builder buttons, Data Display buttons then Chart buttons.

When you have a large number of Data Display and Chart windows open, it can be useful to have the Data Display / Chart button after the button for the window that has created it. As an example, when this option has been selected, the order of the buttons might be:

• Database Explorer windows
• Run SQL window
• Data Display windows for queries run by the Run SQL window
• Chart windows for charts created by the Run SQL window
• Run SQL window2
• Data Display windows for queries run by Run SQL window2
• Query Builder window
• Data Display windows for queries run by the Query Builder

When the buttons are shown in this order, it is easier to see which window created a particular Data Display or Chart window.

Note: when you change this option the existing buttons in the window-list bar are not reordered. This option only applies for new windows are they are created.

Captions for Data Display icons in the Window-list bar

When a Data Display window is opened, a button is created in the AQT window-list bar. The caption for this button is taken from the table name (if you are displaying a table), query name (if you are running a query), or some other descriptive text. The options here govern, to some extent, what text is used here:

• maximum characters in caption. This specifies how many characters will be used in the caption. A large value here will allow a longer, more descriptive, caption to be used, however the button will be wider.
• caption is formed from. By default, when displaying a table, the caption will be schemaname.tablename - for instance DBA.EMPLOYEE). You may not be interested in seeing the schema name here. In this case, select Table name only. The caption will be (for instance) EMPLOYEE.

Captions for SQL Buttons

Caption is formed from table or query name. When this option is checked, the caption for an SQL window button is taken from the query table or query name. This will be similar to the caption for the Data Display window for the query.