Re: Value labels or names in dialogs ?

2009-03-15 Thread ErikF
In future versions, would people prefer to see names or labels? I personally lean toward names over labels here. This is a mildly annoying feature I first noticed in spss. If you don't tend toward giving meaningful names to variables I suppose the switch to names from labels could be problematic,

Re: Value labels or names in dialogs ?

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Darrington writes: > A number of people I've spoken to dislike the way that Psppire (and > spss) displays variables' labels in dialog box lists rather than their > names. Could we show name and have a tooltip pop up with the variable label on hover? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org