Stephen Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I normally run stata on a unix machine that I access using X11 (an
> Xwindows client running on a Mac, similar to using a a Wintel machine
> with Exceed.)
>
>
> Most of the time I am happy running with stata in terminal mode. But
> if I should want to see a graph occasionally, then under stata6 and
> stata7, graphs are readily available.
>
> Running stata8, this appears not to be the case. It seems that to get
> any graphic capability at all, I have to invoke xstata (rather than
> stata). But this program is so graphically intensive (like SAS) that
> everything to do with stata is horribly slow - especially if I am
> working from home over a DSL line.
>
> Am I missing something? i.e. is there a way in the terminal type
> version of stata8 to get the graphic window back on an "as and when
> required " basis - as it was in previous versions?
There is no way to view graphics in the console version of Stata 8. I do,
however, have a fairly simple workaround that may be of interest to you.
Here is a wrapper program that you can use or modify as you wish.
-----Begin mygraph.ado-----
*! version 1.0.0 SRD 30sep2004
program mygraph
version 8.2
`0'
tempfile mygraph
qui graph export "`mygraph'", as(eps) replace
!gv "`mygraph'"
end
-----End mygraph.ado-----
To call this program, you would simply type -mygraph <your graph command>-.
The graph command that you give it will be executed. A tempfile will then be
created, and the graph will be exported to .eps format. The final command,
-!gv ...-, is a shell call to Ghostview. This should open Ghostview with your
graph loaded in the window. One slight issue with this is that Stata will stop
until you close Ghostview.
--Shannon Driver
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