Annoying usability bug

[homam]

Since Ctrl-F5 executes the current selected query, making the adjacent key, Ctrl-F4, close the editor window and disconnect from the server WITHOUT prompting the user to save thier changes is a very annoying usability bug.

This key shortcut (quit without saving) should be placed away from the most frequently used shortcut (execute current query), or at least you should prompt the user to save their changes.

Thanks!

[CalEvans]

CTRL-F4 is the Windows standard for close existing window.

=C=

[homam]

CalEvans wrote on Feb 23 2005, 08:00 PM:

CTRL-F4 is the Windows standard for close existing window.

=C=

I agree, so we should move the “execute current query” shortcut to somewhere else, such as the standard Ctrl-E (this would be great for those of us who use both MySQL and MS SQL simultaneously).

It's also standard to prompt the user to save their changes if Ctrl-F4 was used to close an editor window.

I posted this because, for the second time, I just lost significant changes (including statement execution history times) by inadvertently clicking Ctrl-F4 instead of Ctrl-F5.

It's very frustrating when you're about to execute a query and suddenly the whole window vanishes in a blink 🙂

[homam]

In the same vein of using the wrong shortcut keys, I just wanted to add that SQLyog, being a Windows application, should adhere to the basic windows editors' shortcut scheme. For example, in almost all Windows editors, pressing F3 repeats the last find.

SQLyog shouldn't fall short of the intuitive expectation of Windows users by using its own proprietary shortcut scheme.

Yes, I grumble here quite often, but hey, I use it on a daily basis, and if I didn't like it, I wouldn't have bothered suggesting improvement 😉

[Ritesh]

Thanks for your suggestion.

I have forwarded your issues to my development team.

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