Re: st: "Fixing" all windows (Results, command, review and variables) with Stata 11 for Mac

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Nov 8, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Nils Braakmann wrote:
> I have recently switched from a PC to a Mac. One thing that bothers  
> me about the Stata version for Mac is that the results, command,  
> review and variable windows are separate windows. With the windows  
> version whenever I clicked on the "results" window, I also got the  
> command etc. windows to the front, which was something I really  
> liked. On the Mac I always have to go hunting for all windows  
> whenever I switch from the do-file editor back to the dataset to  
> have a look at, say, variable names or whenever I want to do some  
> quick descriptive statistics before deciding about some cleaning  
> procedure, etc. Is there a way to "fix" these four windows so that  
> clicking on one of them always bring all four up to the front?


You can achieve this with Preferences -> General Preferences -> "Bring  
all windows to front when activated."  However, as Steve has noted,  
many users prefer the default behavior (which is standard for OS X  
applications).  The default behavior gives you more flexibility, and  
you can always bring all Stata windows to the front by switching to  
Stata with cmd-tab.


-- Phil

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