Don Spady
>
> I want to create a vplplot (vertical plot of two variables,
> sorted by one of
> them) and there is no command to do this in the drop down
> graphics tab. So
> I do it by using the command line. However, I get a black
> background and
> yellow foreground. How do I change this to a white (or
> whatever) background
> and a black (or whatever) foreground. The use of the graph
> preferences in
> the graphics tab doesn't work. This was very easy to do in
> Stata 7 but not
> at all intuitive in Stata 8.
-vplplot- as a user-written, unadopted
program does not feature in the Graphics
menu in Stata 8. (The same is true of all
other user-written unadopted graphics programs.
Many, perhaps most, but not all, are superseded
by the new graphics.)
So Don does it from the command line. The effect
is to set -version- to 6 while -vplplot- is
working. The important bit of -vplplot- for
this question is calling up -graph- actually to draw
the graph, and under version control Stata 8
calls up what it knows as -graph7-.
However, it is my impression that graphics
settings in Stata 8 do not also apply to
-graph7-. In any case, it does not seem possible
within Stata 8 to replicate all the graphical
flexibility of previous versions. On backgrounds,
the Henry Ford principle applies that you
can have any colour so long as it's black.
A different question arises for me as author
of -vplplot-. Will I rewrite it for Stata 8
or is it superseded by the new graphics?
My guess at this point is the former,
although some of the functionality can
I guess be provided very nicely by
overlaying graphs in Stata 8.
Nick
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