Re: st: Good News

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 02:22 PM 7/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Stata Users:
>
> I think I have good news for users who are frustrated by the immobility of 
> the review and variables windows in version 8 for the MS Windows OS.
>
> According to Kevin Crow at Stata, the developers will add a key 
> combination that quickly suppresses the review and variables windows, so, 
> for example, with this addition you can easily get rid of these 
> inconvenient semi permanent windows and use the entire screen for the 
> editor or anything else you want.  This addition should more convenient 
> for people like me who avoid the mouse whenever possible.  Typing control 
> 5 and control 6, of course will quickly bring both windows back.
I am sorry to hear that is the solution Stata will go with. I tried that 
with a Windows macro program and found many problems, particularly in terms 
of placement of the windows, with multiple sessions, and when one forgets 
to bring back the window before closing Stata.

For what I do, I find I use the review and variables windows often. So I 
would much rather have them there all of the time. I recognize that many 
feel the graphics and statistics pull downs, that apparently caused this 
problem, are a very useful. I have not found that to be the case and never 
use these pull downs. From my point of view I would rather have a command 
that allowed one to disable the pull downs and keep the otherwise great 
windowing system.

As long as I am complaining, I would still like to see the 2nd graphics 
speed-up that was promised. One thing that would certainly make graphics 
faster would be to error check the syntax at the start, not after much of 
time in calling the graphics has past.

Fred Wolfe

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Fred Wolfe (fwolfe@arthritis-research.org)
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Arthritis Research Center Foundation
Wichita, KS USA

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