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st: Re: graph syntax and smalldlg queries


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: graph syntax and smalldlg queries
Date   Tue, 13 May 2003 16:32:25 +0100

At 07:49 13/05/03 -0700, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
--- "b. water" <[email protected]> wrote:
> at the moment, our organization has no plan to upgrade w98.
> so i guess i will not be able to make full use of stata8,
> esp. the graphing dlg boxes for now.

Barley,

You don't need the big dialog boxes to make full use of Stata 8. The
program works just fine under Windows 98.
But you do need big dialog boxes if you want to write (or even use) an advanced dialog-driven graphics application, in which the non-technical user can select symbol colors, line pattern styles, text sizes and everything else, and get it all exactly right, without using the complicated syntax of the Stata 8 graphics system with its "options within options within options".

It is, of course, best to use do-files, so you know, many months later, what you did at the time, when a colleague wants to make minor changes. And it is also a good thing that Stata 8 graphics dialogs generate a command, which the user can cut and paste into a do-file for future reference, once the graph is exactly right. However, it would be even better if the non-technical user could get the graphics exactly right using only dialogs, and not have to thrash around in the manuals and/or the on-line help to find out whether to use a -size- suboption, a -labsize- suboption or a -msize- suboption. And the people at StataCorp (and the Stata community) are trying to make this possible, but Windows 98 seems to be trying to stop them (and us).

Roger


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