[Gretl-devel] Re: Graph dialog windows: only generic title

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I've noticed that a couple of dialog windows for graphing only have > generic names. For example choosing Boxplot from the menu yields a > dialog which just says "gretl: define graph", and if you hadn't clicked > Boxplot (and knew that you didn't miss) you wouldn't have any idea that > this is going to be a boxplot. In contrast, the Q-Q plot window has a > descriptive title -- is this coming from inside gui/library.c ? There's a little inconsistency here, but Q-Q plot seems to be the odd man out in having a specific window-title (versus "gretl: define graph"). In most cases the window-title is generic but the header line in the dialog is specific: "XY scatterplot", "factorized boxplot" and so on. So it seems to me the best fix would be to give the boxplots dialog its own header, amend the QQ dialog header, and remove the specific window title for QQ. The headers are set in gui/selector.c, and the specific window-titles in gui/dialogs.c. If you open such a dialog you're presumably going to use it (or dismiss it) right away rather than "park" it by minimizing, so having a specific window title doesn't seem necessary, though having a specific header is useful confirmation that you clicked what you meant to click.

> BTW, let me mention also a different issue: when selecting two series in > the main variable list this selection seems to be remembered for the > graph dialogs, but not when a single series is marked; one then has to > search and select again (inside the dialog). OK, but the working assumption is that for a single series you'd just use the context menu.