active dataset

[Antoon Smulders]

Dear list,



In the SPSS help I read:



You can change the active dataset simply by clicking anywhere in the Data
Editor window of the data source that you want to use or by selecting the
Data Editor window for that data source from the Window menu.



Often I have two open datafiles and one syntax file. If I click the "right"
datafile in the taskbar its icon gets a green cross, so I think it is
activated. But when I click the syntax file in the taskbar, the green cross
moves to  the "wrong" data file. Clicking *in* the data editor window (after
clicking its filename in the taskbar) doesn't change anything.



This (to me) strange behavior does not always occur and sometimes after a
while it disappears even during the same session.

I wonder if anyone has the same experience.



Antoon Smulders

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[Georg Maubach]

Dear Listers,

we have experienced another fact concercing the syntax command for OUTPUT. If we call

OUTPUT ACTIVATE OutputName .

everything is fine. But if we call

OUTPUT ACTIVATE NAME = OutputName . or
OUTPUT ACTIVATE NAME = 'OutputName' /* which is wrong according to the Command Syntax Reference */ .

we get the following error message:

"OUTPUT ACTIVATE command line must specify a single unquoted string.
This command not executed."

Did anybody else discover this in SPSS 15?

Regards

Georg

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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. November 2007 09:34
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Betreff: active dataset

Dear list,



In the SPSS help I read:



You can change the active dataset simply by clicking anywhere in the Data Editor window of the data source that you want to use or by selecting the Data Editor window for that data source from the Window menu.



Often I have two open datafiles and one syntax file. If I click the "right"
datafile in the taskbar its icon gets a green cross, so I think it is activated. But when I click the syntax file in the taskbar, the green cross moves to  the "wrong" data file. Clicking *in* the data editor window (after clicking its filename in the taskbar) doesn't change anything.



This (to me) strange behavior does not always occur and sometimes after a while it disappears even during the same session.

I wonder if anyone has the same experience.



Antoon Smulders

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