Re: st: issues with right clicking and editing graphs in Mac OS X 10.5

[Arun Rajamohan <arajamoh@uwo.ca>]

Thanks,

Undo does work and at the same time I am getting used to working form  
the toolbar rather than right-cliking for the properties.

-Arun

On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Vince Wiggins, StataCorp wrote:


> I have one additional comment about the problems with the contextual
> (right-click) menus of the Graph Editor when running under the  
> Leopard release
> of Mac OS.  There is a way to recover if you use the Contextual Menu.
>
> I sympathize with David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu> when he  
> says,
>
>
> > [...] Seems what is happening is that all choices made under the
> > contextual graph editor menu default to "hiding" what was selected.
> > And you cannot unhide it, so the graph is ruined.
> If you are a Leopard user and do accidentally use the Contextual  
> Menu, don't
> despair.  To reshow an object that was wrongly hidden, select it  
> from the
> Object Browser (along the right side of the window) and the from the  
> Main Menu
> select Object>Show.  Note that your hidden item will be easy to find  
> in the
> Object Browser because hidden items are shown dim.  You could also  
> just select
> the Undo button from the toolbar at the top of the graph, or  
> equivalently,
> select Edit>Undo from the Main Menu.
>
> David's diagnosis that all items on the Contextual Menu hide the  
> currently
> selected object under Leopard, is close, but not completely  
> accurate.  The
> actions from the items are actually misaligned with the named items  
> because
> Apple removed two items that were previously on all contextual  
> menus.  So, it
> is possible to get other unintended actions, it is just that most  
> items now
> map to "Hide".  For that reason, selecting the "Undo" button is the  
> best
> general remedy.
>
>
> -- Vince
>   vwiggins@stata.com
>
>
>
>
> .
>
> I can confirm this Leopard bug on my Stata MP. Seems what is happening
> is that all choices made under the contextual graph editor menu
> default to "hiding" what was selected. And you cannot unhide it, so
> the graph is ruined. Until Stata fixes this, don't use the contextual
> menu; it's broken I agree.
>
> -Dave
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