Re: [Gretl-users] Recent menu changes
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Talha Yalta wrote:
Thanks very much for your useful comments. I have to agree with all
of
your points and I am absolutely grateful for making the GUI selector
remember the last directory. The old behavior was so annoying for me
that I think my life expectancy has increased a bit with this :-)
Well, I'm glad to hear that!
I have just a few quick comments:
1)- You haven't commented on my points 2 and 7. Does this mean you
don't disagree with them? \(^_^)/
Just haven't arrived at a definite view yet.
2)- Remebering the last directory is so great and natural that I
don't think anybody would disagree if it was the standard
behavior instead of an option.
It is in fact the default at present.
3)- I think the file menu could be improved (become simpler and
more standard) if you could remove the import data sub-menu and
add this functionality to the open user file dialog box as a
drop-down "file format" option. Similarly, the "Export data"
sub-menu would be an item where the file format choice is done
within the GUI selector as most other programs do.
I agree with that, but don't expect it to happen right away.
4)- I still think that there must be a better way to do the
missing value function. How about gretl doing the fixing data
aspect of it at the time of opening the data?
We do our best to get this right on opening the data, already.
Perhaps fixup of misrecognized NAs is too arcane to have in the
GUI. What do others think? It's easy enough to do the fixup, if
required, in script mode, as in:
scalar badval = -1
xvar = (xvar == badval)? NA : xvar
But the reason this item is present at all is that some of the
sorts of data we can import (sas, stata, spss?) have a slew of
special missing value codes which can't always be handled
perfectly.
5)- I would like to point out that I do support (with Berend) having
a
"Window" menu even if it will be the 10th menu. The only down side I
can think of is that this may require the main window getting a bit
wider by default in some translations.
Try running gretl in German.
Allin.