Re: GUI update

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:24:59AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     
     I tried it out.  It works okay for me.  I found some minor nits:
     
             * If I change the width or number of decimal places using
               the Type dialogue box, the Width or Decimals columns do
               not update to the new value until I click outside
               the Type column.  I found this surprising.

I'll add this to the list of things to be fixed.
     
             * Selecting View | Toolbars doesn't do anything as far as
               I can tell.

You're right.  It currently does nothing.  Perhaps I'll just get rid
of this menu option until there's a use for it.
     
     > One decision concerns the protocol to use between user interface and
     > back end.  Do we want to allow pspp user interfaces to connect to spss
     > servers? (or vici-versa)?  If so, we'll have to reverse engineer the
     > protocol.  If not, we can devise our own.
     
     I don't think we should tie ourselves to undocumented SPSS
     protocols.  We'll be in trouble if they change anything.

I wonder if an spss v10 client works with a v14 server or vici-versa ?

J'

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