Hello people?
I've been playing around with the new object model in Stata 8, but I
cannot seem to find any way to save instances from one session to
another, or any way to attach objects to variables in a dataset. Am I
missing something? I'm guessing not, because the objects seem to be
extensions of ado files rather than extensions of data.
Here would be something which might be of some use:
.myObj = .something.new
[followed by things which give values to the variables in .myObj,
including some dynamic variables, maybe]
Then the (built in) .save method could be used for:
.myObj.save "~/Custom/Stata/ado/A Nice Instance.inst"
Finally, the (built in) .open method could be used in another session for
.myObj = .something.open "~/Custom/Stata/ado/A Nice Instance.inst"
Similarly, there could be a (built in) .attach method which allowed
myvar.myObj = .something.attach
The one problem could come if .something were redefined between saves, I
guess.
One use for this could be to have window positions of dialog boxes saved
between sessions, so that people who are having trouble with the dialogs
coming up underneath palettes (the review and variable windows) could
have the positions of the boxes remembered from session to session.
Of course, this may be a very poor idea thought up by a novice object
oriented programmer.
Bill
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