st: Exporting Stata windowing preferences under Windows

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Fellow Statalisters (especially StataCorp):

I would like to be able to save multiple sets of Stata windowing 
preferences under Windows. This is because I am currently preparing a Stata 
demo, which I want to be visible on the overhead projector to people with 
poor eyesight. I would therefore like to use a large font and to allocate 
as much width as possible to the Results window, and to optimize the 
-print- optios in my demo do-files under those conditions, and to be able 
to toggle back and forth at will between these windowing preferences and my 
usual windowing preferences, which involve small fonts to make large 
amounts of information visible to people with 20/20 vision and a high-pixel 
screen setting.

Unfortunately, in the Getting Started documentation for Stata 8 under 
Windows (-[GSW] 18 Setting font and window preferences-)  it is stated: 
"Note: Only one set of preferences can be saved".  However, I have also 
been looking at the FAQ at

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/preferences.html

in which Kyle Willman & Jeremy Wernow of StataCorp explain how to export 
and import Stata 7 windowing preferences under Windows NT using the Windows 
NT Registry Editor. This looks like a way to store multiple windowing 
preferences in Windows .reg files, for import using the Windows -regedit- 
Registry Editor. Unfortunately, they state: "This FAQ is for users of Stata 
7. It is not relevant for Stata 8."

Does this mean that the tricks they describe do not work under Stata 8 
and/or do not work under forms of Windows? Or does it only mean that it did 
not occur to the authors at the time that anybody might want todo what I 
want to do? I ask because I have recently ported my TextPad settings from 
Windows 98 to Windows 2000 using a similar -regedit- trick (documented in 
the TextPad online help), and found this to be very, very helpful in 
getting my system back into production mode following a Microsoft Windows 
system upgrade.

Best wishes (and thanks in advance)

Roger


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Roger Newson
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