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Hiya,

Is there any way to turn off IntelliSense in SQL window? It makes the window so clunky to use, it's constantly triggering when I don't want it to and auto-filling text I had no intention to write, it's always inserting extra brackets and quotes, and it just makes it a feature I loathe using (if its quicker to write your SQL in notepad and paste it into the window, it's a pretty damning indictment).

Please help me turn all of this "helpful" interference off! 

Ryan

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Ryan Cook
ORH LTD
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Anybody?!

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Ryan Cook
ORH LTD
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Hey Ryan

Sorry to hear you don't find this helpful at all.

Until you posted this question, I was sure it could be disabled in the MapBasic/SQL Window Preferences dialog. But we only allow you to disable syntax highlighting.

I did struggle with it for a while, too.

Especially in these situations:

As you said, it automatically adds an extra quote and bracket. I have almost gotten used to this now, probably because the text editor I use for writing MapBasic code has the same behaviour.

When you use the brackets, the intellisense seems to go into a different mode to insert possible attributes. I especially struggled with this when writing sub-select statements. For a while, I always got the Select keyword replaced by LayerControlSelectionInfo. Annoying. Now, I have learned to hit the Esc key to dismiss the intellisense.

Let me see if there is a way to disable the intellisense.

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Principal Presales Consultant | Distinguished Engineer
Precisely | Trust in Data
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Any joy Peter? 

Yeah, the most frustrating thing is it makes everything so sluggish when the menu pops up as soon as you write a bracket or something; even worse is as you continue to type it just selects something from it's menu in place of what you wrote. Painful. I just want to type code into the SQL window. The MapBasic window might have been useful but that is just unmanageable as an input. 

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Ryan Cook
ORH LTD
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-08-2025 02:50
From: Peter Møller
Subject: Any way to turn of IntelliSense in SQL window?

Hey Ryan

Sorry to hear you don't find this helpful at all.

Until you posted this question, I was sure it could be disabled in the MapBasic/SQL Window Preferences dialog. But we only allow you to disable syntax highlighting.

I did struggle with it for a while, too.

Especially in these situations:

As you said, it automatically adds an extra quote and bracket. I have almost gotten used to this now, probably because the text editor I use for writing MapBasic code has the same behaviour.

When you use the brackets, the intellisense seems to go into a different mode to insert possible attributes. I especially struggled with this when writing sub-select statements. For a while, I always got the Select keyword replaced by LayerControlSelectionInfo. Annoying. Now, I have learned to hit the Esc key to dismiss the intellisense.

Let me see if there is a way to disable the intellisense.

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Principal Presales Consultant | Distinguished Engineer
Precisely | Trust in Data
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Hey Ryan

A bit, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

We noticed that turning off Syntax Highlighting made IntelliSense a bit less "responsive". At least that removed the issue I kept having when writing sub-select statements.

I have added an idea to Precisely Ideas to capture some improvement ideas. It may take a day or two for the idea to appear.

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Principal Presales Consultant | Distinguished Engineer
Precisely | Trust in Data
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-21-2025 06:22
From: Ryan Cook
Subject: Any way to turn of IntelliSense in SQL window?

Any joy Peter? 

Yeah, the most frustrating thing is it makes everything so sluggish when the menu pops up as soon as you write a bracket or something; even worse is as you continue to type it just selects something from it's menu in place of what you wrote. Painful. I just want to type code into the SQL window. The MapBasic window might have been useful but that is just unmanageable as an input. 

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Ryan Cook
ORH LTD
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-08-2025 02:50
From: Peter Møller
Subject: Any way to turn of IntelliSense in SQL window?

Hey Ryan

Sorry to hear you don't find this helpful at all.

Until you posted this question, I was sure it could be disabled in the MapBasic/SQL Window Preferences dialog. But we only allow you to disable syntax highlighting.

I did struggle with it for a while, too.

Especially in these situations:

As you said, it automatically adds an extra quote and bracket. I have almost gotten used to this now, probably because the text editor I use for writing MapBasic code has the same behaviour.

When you use the brackets, the intellisense seems to go into a different mode to insert possible attributes. I especially struggled with this when writing sub-select statements. For a while, I always got the Select keyword replaced by LayerControlSelectionInfo. Annoying. Now, I have learned to hit the Esc key to dismiss the intellisense.

Let me see if there is a way to disable the intellisense.

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Principal Presales Consultant | Distinguished Engineer
Precisely | Trust in Data