Re: [Gretl-users] gretl icon view changes
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Berend Hasselman wrote:
1. In the View menu you can choose Icon view and Scalars. Why not
matrices in the view menu?
The current situation only lets you see matrices in icon view.
I realise that you can't really show the contents of all defined
matrices but a list of matrices and
then clicking on or selecting a name to view the matrix would be
nice.
Because now I have to open an icon view and double click on a
matrix name (Selecting and Enter do nothing)
Sorry, but I don't really understand. Matrices are present and
available in the icon view, as you say, and double-clicking shows
their content. For those who don't like to double-click we could
easily implement select-and-Enter to open them. Scalars have
their own viewer item simply because it would be insane to have an
icon for each scalar variable.
2. Why not show scalars and matrices in the main window?
We've been over this before in the mailing list. I don't say that
the issue is resolved but I would ask: please think about how
_exactly_ this should be done. It's easy to say in general terms,
but (IMO) quite difficult to come up with a concrete design that
does not just over-complicate the main gretl window.
Allin.