thank you alan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Alan Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rafal Raciborski asked about Viewers automatically appearing (but
> with a default 'help_advice' topic) when he starts Stata:
>
> > can anybody replicate this small annoyance?
> >
> > when i have, let's say, four viewers open with different help topics
> > and exit stata, next time i start stata, i get four viewers popping
> > out each showing the default help help_advice topic.
> >
> > stata 10.0 on windows xp
>
> This can be controlled by Stata's preferences. Rafal can choose for
> Viewers to be persistent or not. Stata can optionally remember how
> many Viewers were open when Stata closed and automatically open those
> Viewers when Stata restarts. Stata can also optionally remember the
> topics which were open in those Viewers when Stata closed and automatically
> reload those topics when Stata restarts.
>
> This behavior can be set in the Windowing tab of Stata's General
> Preferences dialog. In Stata 10, pull down the Edit menu, go to the
> Preferences sub-menu, and choose General Preferences. From the
> resulting dialog, click on the Windowing tab.
>
> Check or uncheck "Make undocked Viewers persistent". Rafal probably
> has this checked, and if he wishes that the Viewers not come back the
> next time he starts Stata, he can uncheck this.
>
> If Rafal wants the Viewers to come back, and he wants them to remember
> the topic in each of them rather than defaulting to the "help_advice"
> topic, in addition to leaving the "Make undocked Viewers persistent"
> box checked, he can also check the "Persistent Viewers retain topics"
> box on the same tab in the preferences dialog.
>
>
> --Alan Riley
> ([email protected])
>
>
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