Re: [Gretl-devel] tabbed model viewer

Dear Professor Cottrell, The tabbed script editor and model window are really great. Despite the need for more polish, these already add substantially to the overall gretl experience. Here are a few comments: 1)- The ability to drag a tab out is nice and useful but I think there must be a way to do the opposite. Is there a difficulty with dragging something back in? If so maybe there can be an icon for scripts and an entry in the file menu for models to "move to the main window". 2)- I notice that switching between model tabs, gretl does not anymore check for the subsample status. I am guessing that you are aware and already working on this. 3)- I think it is best that the "New window" and "Open..." icons are found only in the (main) "script editor", which acts as the primary window for this operation. The alternative (and the best) setting is one where everything can be draged in and out of everything but I understand that this is something difficult to do. 4)- Now that a model tab can be dragged, it could be nice to be able to drag it onto the Model Table, but I have a feeling that this may not be very easy to do. 5)- In the tabbed model window, clicking on the "Windows" menu title does not change its color, causing a difficult to explain behavior when moving to the other menus immediately after. 6)- Model names in the tabs are not capitalized but they are in the icon view window. 7)- What does "smart tabs" do? 8)- Once tabbed windows are more mature for scripts and models, I think the next step would be supporting tabbed plot windows (fingers crossed). I will continue to test... Sincerely Talha On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: -- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) --