Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[James Fiedler <jrfiedler@gmail.com>]

Jeph,

I think the problem in #1 is all about where the focus goes when you
return to Stata, and by default, the Command window gets the focus. If
you re-focus on Stata by clicking on the Stata title bar, then try to
copy with Ctrl-C, the Ctrl-C is interpreted as an attempt to copy from
the Command window.

I'm assuming you're trying to copy from the Results window. Here are a
couple workarounds:
a) You can right click on the selection, and choose copy.
b) When you come back to Stata, click on the scroll bar next to the
Results window. This will put focus on the Results window without
removing the selection, and Ctrl-C will copy from there.
c) You can use Ctrl-Tab to move the focus within Stata.

Maybe there is a simple solution that could be put into the software,
but I would bet not.


James

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> These are interface nusiances I encounter almost everyday:
>
> 1. The Copy functionality on the results window is not very robust,
>    at least in Windows. I find that if I make a selection and then
>    go do something else, I can't come back to the window and successfully
>    copy that selection to the clipboard. I have to reselect it, then
>    copy it. This has been true for as many versions as I can recall.
>
> 2. The many inbuilt functions of Stata do not use the same column tabs for
>    output. For instance,
>
>      tab x y
>      tab z y
>
>    may give two tables that have different alignments, so that if I want to
>    copy/paste/convert to table, I have to do each separately. And ideally
>    there would be some default or option for regression output, tabulations,
>    etc that would produce a common set of tabs.
>
> Jeph
>
>
>
>
> On 9/2/2013 11:00 AM, William Buchanan wrote:
>>
>> Since it is still fairly early in the development cycle for the next
>> release of Stata, I thought it might be good to start a thread about things
>> that people would like to see added to the next release.
>>
>> I would definitely be interested in seeing some updates/expansions to the
>> graphics capabilities of Stata.  Alpha level blending is something that has
>> come up several times and adding interactive graphics would be a great
>> addition to the existing commands (e.g., functionality that is common in
>> Tableau and several packages in R).
>>
>> Documentation of the lower level graphics commands to make it easier for
>> users to extend the graphics capabilities.
>>
>> Latent Class Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis with support for all
>> types of manifest variables.
>>
>> Multivariate mixed-effects models
>>
>> Exploratory Factor Analysis with nominal/ordinal/non-normal variables
>>
>> Improved debugging tools (e.g., stepwise evaluator for programs, more
>> informative error messages, etc...)
>>
>> New ways to generate samples of data with specified correlation
>> structures/distributions
>>
>> I'm curious to see what other people have to say on this topic as well.
>>
>> Billy
>>
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