st: RE: Stata hidden windows + other seeming windowing oddities

[Michel Camus <mcamus@videotron.ca>]

Dear Stata people, could you please direct us to the information source 
(book or internet) about basic window management in Stata 8 ?

I have had the same maddening frustration when I installed Stata 8 2 
months ago. I didn't know where to find the info to address that problem 
in Stata's books nor on the internet.
There must be a good reason for this change relative to previous Stata 
versions, is there?
Although  Stata 8 is a great improvement leap over previous versions, 
the new windowing is odd to me and Tobias at least.
A related windowing issue is that drop-down menus for commands (data 
management, statistics, graphics, etc.) conflict with and will appear 
behind  the Review and Variables windows.

My own "stupid solution" to your and my problem, Tobias, was to make the 
Stata window smaller to discover the Review and Variables windows behind 
the Stata window, then move them by hand in front of the Stata 8 window, 
then put the Stata 8 window in full-size mode , then resize each window 
as I did in previous versions and save my preferences. My "haphazardous 
solution" has the inconvenience of hiding part of the pull-down command 
menus...

Michel
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atobias wrote:


> Sam, 
> I'll also tried before to send my mail!. But ... It didn't work
>
> ----- Mensaje Original -----
> De: "Wambugu, Sam (KEN)" <swambugu@fhi.or.ke>
> Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 29, 2003 3:10 pm
> Asunto: st: RE: Stata hidden windows
>
>  
>
> > Tobias,
> >
> > Try going to Prefs and click on default windoing
> >
> > Sam 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: atobias [mailto:atobias@ole.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:40 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Stata hidden windows
> >
> > Hi statalisters,
> >
> > This is probably a Stata8 low level question, but I am getting mad!.
> > Today I got and installed Intercooled Stata8 but the Review and 
> > Variables windows are hidden and I cannot find them. I tried to 
> > activate them using the Windows menus and other trick, which 
> > worked in 
> > Stata7 but I am unable to get them. Any sugestion?
> >
> > Sorry!.
> > atobias@ole.com
> >
> >
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Michel Camus, Ph.D.

�pid�miologue, Div. Biostatistique et �pid�miologie, DGSESC, Sant� Canada

Epidemiologist, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Div., HECSB, Health Canada

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