st: -db- suggestion

[Roger Harbord <Roger.Harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

At the moment in Stata 8.0 :

. db

- without any arguments gives an error.  Does anyone else think it would 
be great if it brought up the last dialog box instead?
(Sometimes the name of this is is  not quite the same as the name of the 
last command, e.g. -db ttestby- is not the same as -db ttest-, which gives 
you a list to choose from in the Viewer - I'd wish to always get the last 
dialog box straight away.)

Alternatively, some way of stopping the dialog box closing when you click 
'OK' - I know X-Windows has pushpins that do this, but I think maybe in MS 
Windows dialog boxes either always close on OK or always don't ?? - the 
latter means you can easily end up with far too many dialog boxes around at 
the same time  (anyone else used Genstat for Windows?).

(I've no idea what Macs do - probably better than MS Windows, of which I'm 
no great fan but I don't have the choice...)

Just an random idea - at present pulling down the same menu, submenu, and 
sub-submenu again to get the dialog box back and have another look at the 
available options can get a little tiresome..

Roger.


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