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.