MySQL Bugs: #53326: Feature Request: Field viewer default tab should be "Text" instead of "Binary"

Bug #53326	Feature Request: Field viewer default tab should be "Text" instead of "Binary"
Submitted:	30 Apr 2010 17:42	Modified:	20 Aug 2010 11:29
Reporter:	Wil Moore	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.19 Beta	OS:	Any (The tab defaults to "Binary" when most of the time, the data will be "Text")
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	BINARY, editor, tab, text, viewer, workbench

Description:
The "Open value in Viewer" dialog by default first displays the value's "Binary" representation; however, when the user's text/blob data is primarily textual, the "Binary" default causes the need for an extra and superfluous click.

How to repeat:
1. Execute a SQL query that returns a large text/blob column.
2. Right-click (windows) or two-finger click (mac) the column/value.
3. Select "Open Value in Viewer".
4. The "Binary" tab will be active.
5. Select the "Text" tab.

Suggested fix:
Multiple suggestions in priority order with lowest number being the highest priority:

1. Make the "Text" value the default

2. Make the default tab a preference setting so the user can change his/her preference if the default does not match their usage pattern

3. Implement a usage tracker that helps decide which should be the default based on the user's pattern of use. For example, if the user clicks "Open Value in Viewer" and selects "Text", that should increment a counter. Based on this counter, the editor should decide which tab should be the default (if the user hasn't specifically set their preference).

Thank you for the feature request.

Added code to remember the last clicked tab, so the same tab is shown the next time the viewer is reopened.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at

  http://www.mysql.com/downloads/