Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI problem with "save as"
Am 10/02/2011 01:51 AM, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
What we're discussing may not be a bug, exactly, but as Sven said at
the outset it's an "interface problem", and I'd like to have this
fixed in the 1.9.6 release. I have therefore implemented my last
suggestion above in CVS (and snapshots). Please let me know if you
reckon that what I've done is not right, or is not implemented
correctly.
What you should see: an item "/File/Export data...", which produces
a dialog with (a) a mechanism for selecting series, (b) a pull-down
thingy for selecting the export format (including .gdt) and (c) a
Help button that gives a certain amount of help. (The help item is
currently better in CVS than in the snapshots.)
I think the "all" button is missing in the variable selection dialog!
Given that export-to also serves to save in different formats, you don't
always want to save just a subset.
Apart from that, while checking and partially translating that stuff, a
thing about the terminology occurred to me: The first five menu entries
talk about "data". To highlight the sharpened difference between save-as
and export-to I suggest to say:
* "Save datafile" (changed from Save data)
* "Save datafile as" (changed from Save as)
("Export data" would stay the same because it's not necessarily the
whole file. "Open data" could in principle also be changed to "Open
datafile".)
And a related question. Why does it say "Close dataset" and not "Close
datafile"? Of course the difference may not be very important, but while
we're at it... (And BTW, "dataset" and "data set" both exist in
gretl,
in case you want to unify the usage.)
cheers,
sven