Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl-quartz.dmg, second draft
> Double-click scripts or session files still doesn't launch Gretl.
> [...]
I have that working now, and I'll publish a new build before long.
> Talking about multiple instance... Today I realized that we have a lot of
> important softwares that actually use multiple instance (e.g. Terminal,
> Firefox, and Finder). The way we can have a new instance is selecting "File
>> New window". So, if we are going to have this functionality in Gretl, I
> would suggest to use the same approach.
Well, gretl doesn't really do "New window". You can launch more than
one gretl instance (via the command line), but they're unrelated to
each other.
On the subject: I personally am a CLI guy and most of my work is done in
bash, so this doesn't really apply to me, but I realise that I'm part of a
very small minority.
Although the ability of having several instances of gretl open at the same
time is generally appreciated, several people have pointed out, as an
inconvenient thing, that double-clicking on a script when you already
have gretl open fires up a new instance rather than opening the script in
the pre-existing process. My ususal answer is "well, drag-n-drop it then",
but (not being very much of a GUI guy myself) I honestly couldn't say to
what degree this behaviour is perceived as annoying.
So I'd like to ask you people out there: is this something worth spending
time on? Under the (possibly unrealistic) assumption that this is at all
possible, would you like gretl to open scripts in an already existing
window when double-clicking, or do you prefer the current behaviour?
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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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