No doubt you could use a dialog to do this,
but it doesn't strike me as the easiest approach.
Be aware that -display- has a very simple interactive
handle that could well be adequate here, namely
-_request()-.
To the question how do you design an interactive
program in Stata, my answer is to design a syntax
that you want to use!
Nick
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> 1. How to design a framework (possibly through a dialog box -
> though I am
> totally novice to dialogs - ) to make simulations, after a
> regression? What I have in mind is something like:
>
> regress yvar xvar1 xvar2
> predict yhat1
>
> Now allow user to make simulations:
>
> - replace xvar1 or xvar2 or both by some values
>
> predict yhat2.
>
> I am trying to do that with VB under excel (using streg
> results), but not only
> it is boring, I am sure it is doable in stata.
>
> 2. More generally, how to design an interractive program in
> stata (in the sense
> that during the course of the program, it receives inputs - arguments-
> from the user and implement results). Something like the
> cin/cout commands in
> C++. Again possibly through a dialog box (such as a box to
> compute the square
> root of a number). But it can also be a stand alone program.
> Something like:
>
> myprogram // in the stata command line
>
> enter a value // stata prompts a request
>
> 5 // user enters value
>
> 2.236068 // stata outputs an answer
>
> enter a new value or type "exit" to exit // stata prompts a
> new request
>
> ...
>
> exit // end session
>
>
> Again, I think I have to invest a lot in dialog programming,
> but I want to know
> if definitely, this is doable in stata (especially my first question).
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