Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI problem with "save as"

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote: > here's what seems to be an "interface problem" in some sense, although I > also have that déjà vu feeling as if we discussed this before... > > Anyway, I just chose "save data as / standard format", then selected a > subset of all variables to be saved, and entered a new filename > ("transfer1.gdt"). This operation as such went fine it seems -- when I > open that new file in a new gretl instance, everything looks good. > > However, in the main window of the old instance the line below the menu > bar (on Ubuntu) says "transfer1.gdt", but the window still lists all > variables, not the selected subset. So either the status information > saying "transfer1.gdt" must be wrong, or the display of all the old > variables, right? Or am I missing something and there's a > straightforward meaning to it (quite possible)? I agree, there's something wrong here. If you save only a subset of the currently defined series under some name, we probably shouldn't change the displayed datafile name to the new name. We could, I suppose, ask something like "Do you want to switch to the smaller dataset?" but that could create problems. There's no restriction on the selection of series to omit when saving a data subset, but there are restrictions on the series you're allowed to delete in the course of a session, depending on currently saved models and so on.