Re: value-rep branch ready for review

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:36:55AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      > 1. When using the data sheet, or the variable sheet to insert a new
>      > variable, the variable gets inserted at the position of the active
>      > cell, not the selected row/coloumn.
>      
>      I don't quite understand the problem description.  I can see the
>      active cell; that's the one with a thick black border.  But
>      what's the selected row or column?
>
> If you open an existing .sav file which has (say) 10 variables, the
> active cell defaults to the top left hand cell.   Then if you place
> the mouse cursor over (say) the seventh variable, and right click, a
> popup menu will appear.  Selecting "Insert Variable" from this popup
> menu I would expect the new variable to appear at position 7.  But
> instead it appears at position 0.
>
> The same problem happens when inserting cases too.

Does the value-rep branch really change this behavior?  I am
surprised.

By the way, I always have a hard time figuring out how to delete
a variable.  The popup menu option "Clear" isn't very well named,
in my opinion.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org