Re: SPSS 28: Accumulating "phantom" datasets in Windows taskbar popup

Posted by Bruce Weaver on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/SPSS-28-Accumulating-phantom-datasets-in-Windows-taskbar-popup-tp5740892p5740911.html

I've had a bit of a breakthrough.  In the original version of TEST1.sps, I did not include a DATASET NAME command after DATA LIST.  It eventually occurred to my "tortoise mind" (see "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" by Guy Claxton) that explicitly naming the dataset might change things, so I added the DATASET NAME command you see below.  This does not completely eliminate the problem, but it limits it in a way that I can live with:  I see only ONE phantom dataset no matter how many times I execute the code.  When I run TEST3.sps immediately after launching SPSS, the phantom dataset is named Untitled2[Test], by the way.  


* TEST1.sps, saved to C:\Temp folder.
DATA LIST free / Case (F1) Note (A45).
BEGIN DATA
1 "Computed using SPSS ARTAN function"
2 "Copied from http://www.piday.org/million/"
END DATA.

***********************************.
* NEW:  Explicitly name the dataset.
DATASET NAME Test.
***********************************.

DO IF Case EQ 1.
- COMPUTE Pi = 4*ARTAN(1).
ELSE.
- COMPUTE Pi = 3.141592653589793.
END IF.
FORMATS Pi (F20.15).
LIST Pi Note.

* If I launch SPSS 28, open this syntax file, and
* Run > All multiple times consecutively, I see
* only 3 windows in the taskbar popup:
* 1) This syntax window, 2) an output window, and 3) the data window.

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* TEST3.sps.
INSERT FILE="C:\Temp\TEST1.sps".
INSERT FILE="C:\Temp\TEST1.sps".
INSERT FILE="C:\Temp\TEST1.sps".
INSERT FILE="C:\Temp\TEST1.sps".
INSERT FILE="C:\Temp\TEST1.sps".

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