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

Am 11.02.2021 um 13:58 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > 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. > Yes, sounds good!

>> 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. > OK, but you don't get the boxplot in there, for example.