Well, that answers that. I guess I will have to try using a runaround by
editing the *.wmf if I need to print the graph.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:05
Subject: st: RE: Re: graph presences in command line graph creation.
> 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 Many, perhaps most, but not all, are superseded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 or is it superseded by the new graphics?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
> [email protected]
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
