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

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 10/01/2011 08:17 AM, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> >>>> Actually, let me go one step back and ask a basic question: why have the >>>> variable-selection option at all when the user chooses "save as"? >>> >>> You just beat me to the punch! After thinking about it some more, >>> that's what occurred to me. We're just making life difficult for >>> ourselves (and potentially confusing to the user) by offering that >>> option. >> >> True. The removal of that intermediate step is a good thing IMO. >> However, this makes it much harder than it was to create a dataset >> containing a subset of the variables of an existing one via the GUI. If >> I'm not mistaken, the only way to achieve this is to delete what you >> don't want (which may be sometimes annoyingly difficult, if you have >> lots of saved models) and then save. Maybe we could add a "Save subset" >> menu entry? >> > > I'm not enthusiastic about new menu entries in general, but what about > adding an entry to the *context* menu that you get when you right-click > on one (or more) selected variable? ("save selected to new file") That > would be very intuitive IMHO. Maybe, but if you want to save a fairly substantial and possibly non-contiguous subset of the current series, I think it's easier to make the selection using the sort of dialog you get under the "export" options than by ctrl-click in the main window. We could implement Jack's suggestion by adding an item to the "Export data" menu; I don't think this would over-burden things. Or maybe this would help: instead of having a list of formats in the "Export data" submenu, we call the series selection dialog directly, but this dialog is modified to include a drop down list of formats (with CSV as the default?).