Re: st: Scheme error message

[Constantine Daskalakis <C_Daskalakis@mail.jci.tju.edu>]

At 10:39 AM 9/8/2004, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
> I would like to use the s2color scheme with a white background
> instead of the default ltbluishgray. I copied the file s2color.scheme
> to the personal ado directory, changed the line "color background
> ltbluishgray" to "color background white", and saved the scheme under
> the name s2colorfh.scheme. When I use this new scheme I get an error
> message.
>
> What am I doing wrong? When I use a modified s2mono scheme with a
> white background I don't get an error message but the modified
> s2color scheme does not work.
>
> Friedrich Huebler
I've had exactly the same problem it seems. After spending 2 hours trying 
to figure out what I was doing wrong and a couple of messages to Stata tech 
support, here's the final answer (haven't had the chance to check that out 
yet):

At 02:56 PM 8/31/2004, Stata Technical Support wrote:


> Constantine,
>
> The structure of the schemes has changed.  You shouldn't use the file named
> "s2color.scheme" as your model.  Instead, you need to use "scheme-s2color.
> scheme" which can be found in the same folder (C:\Program Files\Stata8\ado\
> \updates\s).
I am quite annoyed with Stata lately. It seems that there are far too many 
"enhancements" and "features" that are undocumented or plain contradictory 
to what the manual says. I do not want to waste hours of my time to read 
the manual and do things right and then have that all go down the drain 
just because Stata have decided to redo the whole thing and forgot to tell 
anyone.

Major changes that go against the manual should be reserved for new 
versions, NOT updates (unless it is to fix something that is really wrong). 
But perhaps, it's just my nature to gripe.

CD





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