Re: st: Thanks Statacorp

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Gary points our below that the troublesome alt-tab behavior has not been 
fixed. I think he is correct. I have to alt-tab twice to get to my text 
editor and alt-tab once to get back to Stata. If the results window in 
Stata has the focus then it is only one alt-tab to the editor. What is 
frustrating about this is trying to guess how many alt-tabs are required 
and often guessing it wrong.

What StataCorp fixed was the focus problem that required the use of a mouse 
to get back to the command window if you were in another Stata window.

So I remain on Gary's side. It would be great to have only one alt-tab to 
leave Stata.

Fred

At 12:36 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote:

> Fred Wolfe wrote:
> > Thanks Statacorp for fixing this!!!
> > 31.  When Alt-Tabbing between windows and the main Stata window, focus 
> > will automatically be sent to the Command window.  Previously, focus was 
> > sent only after alphanumeric keystrokes were detected.
> But . . . is it true?
> Is anyone else still having trouble with the alt-tab behavior?  Or am I 
> doing something wrong?
>
> Since I habitually use the alt-tab shortcut to navigate between windows, 
> and in particular back and forth between Stata and my editor, I was very 
> relieved to see the note Fred quotes from the latest executable update for 
> Windows.  I have been hoping for this fix since the *faulty* 
> (non-standard, in any case) alt-tab behavior was introduced with version 9.0.
>
> With the Jan 20, 2006 update I must still alt-tab-tab to get from the 
> Stata command window to my editor (i.e. to get out of Stata and into to 
> the next application window).  A single alt-tab will take me back to 
> Stata, but contrary to the release note above, it returns control to the 
> main Stata window until an alphanumeric character is typed, not directly 
> to the command window.
>
> This is true both on my work desktop (Windows XP pro) and at home (XP home).
>
> I have the following boxes checked for windowing preferences:
>
>  - use docking guides
>  - enable ability to dock, undock, pin, or tab windows
>  - make windows float (excluding results)
>  - make results window float
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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