On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Dear Gretl Team,
Some observations and thoughts about the new "instances"
feature:
(1) Let's suppose a situation where we have two opened Gretl
"instances" and we try to open a new data file by double-clicking.
How could we determine which of the (already opened) instance
will handle this new .gdt file? Now, I think Gretl uses the "older"
instances to handle this files (am I correct?).
I thought about that too, but I don't think there's an easy way out of
this. Besides, if you want to open a script in a given instance, you
always have (a) File>Open (b) drag-n-drop.
(2) In Brazilian Portuguese the name "instance" is not
intuitive
enough. Is it intuitive in other languages? I mean, I'm concerned
that the term is clear for Programmers, but not for average users.
Same in Italian, I guess. On the other hand, what "instance" means in this
context should be clear from the context, no?
(3) I really do not know how difficult, in terms of coding, is to
implement the name of the new instances, but I think the PID
solution is not good from my aesthetical point of view.
The name? Like what, "Gretl the third"? Benedict XVI? Please explain.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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