Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[James Fiedler <jrfiedler@gmail.com>]

Hmm, that's strange. Right click and copy works for me. I tried it
just now with both Stata 12.1 and Stata 13, on Windows 7. This might
be a problem with your installation.

James


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> James,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions but a) it's not a focus issue - even
> right-click/copy will not work
> - and b) I have workarounds, what I want is the expected behaviour to
> obtain.
>
> cheers,
> Jeph
>
>
>
> On 9/3/2013 1:27 PM, James Fiedler wrote:
>>
>> 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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