6:39 p.m.
For those who'd like to have their (single-equation) model GUI
output collected in a tabbed window, you can now select "Model
viewer uses tabs" under preferences -- this is in CVS and
snapshots.
This is experimental and will not necessarily be enabled in
the next release, depending on how many bugs appear and how
difficult they are to fix. But please test!
Allin
2:25 p.m.
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> wrote:
For those who'd like to have their (single-equation) model GUI
output collected in a tabbed window, you can now select "Model
viewer uses tabs" under preferences -- this is in CVS and
snapshots.
This is experimental and will not necessarily be enabled in
the next release, depending on how many bugs appear and how
difficult they are to fix. But please test!
Allin
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4:21 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Talha Yalta wrote:
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?
Yes: when you drag a script or model out of its tabbed
container you get a new top-level window, and top-level
windows can't be dragged "into" other windows (only on top of
them). A menu item could be added to dock a free-standing
window (i.e. grab its content, destroy the original window,
and pack the content into the target window), but that would
be quite complicated.
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.
No, I haven't tested this much, other than trying to prevent
crashes.
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.
Hmm, not sure; quite complicated, I suspect.
7)- What does "smart tabs" do?
Makes it so that Tab doesn't just insert a tab, instead it
tries to insert (or remove) sufficient spaces to line up the
given element with correct indentation, based on hansl syntax.
I'll think about the other points you make.
One other thing, somewhat relevant. I've added an "Arrange"
item to the window-list menu. This cascades the open gretl
windows, making it quite easy to find things. It's not tested
on Windows (which sometimes works rather differently from
Linux with regard to window management).
Allin
5:09 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Talha Yalta wrote:
> 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.
I agree, but as I said already, I quite like tabbed windows in general.
One other thing, somewhat relevant. I've added an
"Arrange"
item to the window-list menu. This cascades the open gretl
windows, making it quite easy to find things. It's not tested
on Windows (which sometimes works rather differently from
Linux with regard to window management).
Very nice.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
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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