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Re: st: Features for Stata 14
From
Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Features for Stata 14
Date
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:44:24 -0400
I have four PCs running Stata, and this has been true for versions 10,11,12,13 at least on all of them.
To be clear, if I select from the results window and right click/copy, it works to paste that without any problem. The
issue is that if I select, copy, then (say) open a Word document and maybe use the clipboard, then go back to Stata, the
selection can no longer be copied to the clipboard, regardless of whether I right click, select Edit/Copy or use the hot
button my mouse. I have to kill the selection, reselect, then copy.
I do a lot of sharing of results via Word and Excel files, so I hit this several times a day.
J
On 9/3/2013 2:26 PM, James Fiedler wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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