You are right on everything you write, but unfortunately this does not
help. All you mention happens WITHIN ONE PROGRAM and thus irrelevant.
If you want two programs to communicate you:
1. Tell the first program about the second program's interface, tell
the second program about 1st program's interface. Here "tell" means
"change the code of the program to handle the interface calls". Which
means you need the source code of UE. Ok?
2. You come up with some sort a of a standard of how the programs
communicate (I've mentioned some in my previous email). Then you tell
(in the meaning as can be seen above) your program to support this
standard and hope that the second program will do it's part. So if you
tell me, how can you transfer anything from any program to UE
DIRECTLY, I could probably write a plugin for Stata to transfer the
review commands to UE directly (I will be needing a copy of UE for
that, though).
Best regards, Sergiy
On 4/9/08, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, Sergiy, as a matter of fact, customization varies between windows
> apps: some allow you to record macros to do certain things, others let you
> tweak right-click menus, define environments etc...
> Stata is certainly restrictive in this sense, providing users with the
> Edit-Preferences menu and the -set- command family, and I bet there is a
> philosophy behind that. I do reckon, though, that Stata users come from the
> upper percentiles of PC literacy and that they would use additional
> customizability sensibly. Note that some macro recording and playback
> functionality was indeed added to the graphics editor in Stata 10 in a
> recent update...
>
> Martin Weiss
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sergiy Radyakin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: tweaking Stata behaviour to my needs?
>
> On 4/9/08, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > I have been using UltraEdit for do-file editing for some time now as I
> find
> > the do-file editor shipped with Stata 10.0 inconvenient (no syntax
> > highlighting and brace matching, for one...). Does anyone happen to know
> how
> > I could get Stata to offer a right-click menu item to send highlighted
> > commands from the review window directly to UltraEdit (instead of the
>
>
> For years programmers were struggling to isolate one program from
> another, so that a text editor does not "accidentially" edit your
> banking account, etc. It seems that Microsoft has done a good job, and
> now Windows programs crash independently, not all at once as they used
> to.
>
> Stata (program) does not know anything about UltraEdit's existence,
> purpose or interface. How can it send lines there directly? Or does UE
> support Windows pipes? COM? Shared memory? What if you have two UE
> windows open? Where should Stata send text? Etc, etc, etc.
>
> To send your lines to UltraEdit or any other editor:
> 1) right-click somewhere in review window
> 2a) in Stata 9: select "copy review contents to clipboard" (don't know
> why it was capitalized in the program?)
> 2b) in Stata 10: select "select all", then select "copy" or "cut"
> 3) Switch to UltraEdit, and paste.
>
> Regards,
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
>
>
> > built-in editor)? That would save me a lot of trouble, but so far I have
> not
> > found a feasible way to implement this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Martin Weiss
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