Issues with Project Manager

[wbuchanan]

I'm still checking on things to see if this might be a preferences thing with OSX, but when I use:

projmanager x.stpj

I am expecting the project manager to appear as part of the do-file editor. Instead, it seems the project manager is built into the pane where the results/command windows are located and a new window never opens. I'm not sure if this is potentially a bug or if the projmanager documentation needs to be updated, but I definitely appreciated being able to launch the do-file editor project manager from the command line.

[Clyde Schechter]

This definitely does not happen on my setup:

Stata/MP 16.0 for Windows (64-bit x86-64)
Revision 02 Jul 2019
Copyright 1985-2019 StataCorp LLC

Total physical memory:        8.00 GB
Available physical memory:    1.58 GB

Single-user 4-core Stata perpetual license:

[wbuchanan]

Clyde Schechter
Maybe it is an OSX thing then?

Stata/MP 16.0 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
Revision 02 Jul 2019
Copyright 1985-2019 StataCorp LLC

Total physical memory:   16.00 GB

Single-user 8-core Stata perpetual license:

Hua Peng (StataCorp) you wouldn't happen to know if there was a change in the behavior of the project manager in OSX would you?

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

The project manager pane is now part of the main Stata window due to the fact that most of Stata's windows can now be tabbed to the main Stata window. But since the different types of Stata windows don't all tab to the main Stata window by default, we can change the behavior to open the project manager in a new Do-file Editor window if the Do-file Editor is not set to tab to the main Stata window. We'll do this in a future update.

[wbuchanan]

Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)
That would be awesome. I usually open the do-file editor via the -projmanager- command. As a somewhat unrelated note, if it isn't too difficult, I think a great enhancement would be to use a file watcher to automatically list files in watched directories instead of users having to manually add all the files. I'll add this in the Stata 17 wishlist, but think it would be something that others might find helpful as well.