The principle of uniformity across platforms
is very important in Stataland, but not
an absolute. There are now lots of platform-specific
features, often tiny details which make things just
a little easier.
I wouldn't want StataCorp to put something like
this on the Mac version if it was alien to that
OS, but at least for Windows, this seems natural
and useful to me. I often have multiple Statas open, and even
with two I can get confused on which is using
which dataset.
On the specific problem, one answer is
provided by my favourite text editor.
At present I have multiple copies of that
open and the bars show names like
whatever.ado (c:\ado\...
somethingelse.ado (c:...
In short, the filename should go first
and the rest of the path afterwards. There
is almost never enough space for more than
a bit of the full name, but there is usually
enough space to provide some useful information.
Nick
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David Vaughan
> On 01/06/2004, at 16:33, "Syed Gillani"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I mean that the Title bar (the top blue bar in stata window
> that reads
> > "Intercooled Stata 8.2") should mention the name of current
> dataset in
> > memory, like "Intercooled Stata 8.2 (abc.dta)" for the
> first window and
> > "2-Intercooled Stata 8.2 (lmn.dta)" or "3-Intercooled Stata 8.2
> > (xyz.dta)"
> > for other windows, if one has multiple sessions running.
>
> No thanks, because it is not a general solution for supported Stata
> platforms. I am quite happy to see the file name as the header of the
> Results window for the active data set but putting it in the
> title bar
> that reads "intercooled Stata 8.2" becomes the menu bar on Mac. Names
> somewhat longer than "abc.dta" e.g.
> "Intercooled Stata 8.2 - Capacity Mid-range November 2003 set 2.dta"
> do not work quite so well on the menu bar! Please stick to window
> titling.
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