Windowing behavior in v18 on a Mac

[John Mullahy]

Running v17 on a Mac (MacOS 10.12.6) my windowing preferences worked as I specified them: the Results window would occupy the top of the screen, the Command window would occupy the bottom, the history panel would be on the right, and when I would open the do-file editor it would (a) open to the previously-sized do-file window rendition and (b) would sit atop the Results, Command, and History windows whose parts not obscured by the do-file editor window were visible.

However running v18 on a different Mac (MacOS 13.5.2) the comparable windowing settings do not give the same performance. Specifically, when I open the do-file editor the window size reverts to full-screen regardless of its most recently sized rendition and the Results, Command, and History windows, while still activated, vanish from below the do-file editor window (more precisely, when I manually resize the do-file editor window what appears on the parts of the screen not obscured by the resized do-file window is whatever was active in the most recently activated non-Stata app or the desktop).

Has anyone else experienced similar performance issues and might know how to resolve them? If necessary I will contact Tech Support but I thought I'd first see if the collective wisdom of Statalist had anything to offer. Thanks in advance.

[John Mullahy]

**** The question I raised above has been resolved ****

For what it's worth...

In my v17 settings

Preferences --> General Preferences --> Windows --> Do-File Editor --> Windowing

I have checked "Open tabs in new Stata Window" and the behavior was as I reported above.

In my v18 settings I also had "Open tabs in new Stata Window" checked and it resulted in the behavior I reported above. However when I un-checked it everything appeared to revert to the v17 behavior I noted.

[Mattia Landoni]

This is still the case in Feb 2025. In order to get tabs, I have to first UNcheck the boxes. Then in one case (for the do-file editor) the box got checked by itself, and I now have tabs. In the case of graphs, I had to manually uncheck and then recheck the box, and now *most* of my graphs appear in tabs. [Sigh]