What’s new in Stata’s Graphical User Interface

Do-file Editor

Data Editor

Variables Manager

You may already have read about Stata’s all-new Variables Manager and redesigned Do-file Editor and Data Editor. For those keeping score, here is a complete list of what’s new in Stata’s GUI:

• The new Variables Manager is the one-stop place to go to manage your variables. Read more here.
• Another highlight is the new Data Editor, a live view onto your data. Read more here.
• The Do-file Editor is all new under Windows and provides syntax highlighting and code folding. Read more here.
• You will quickly notice that Stata’s Result window now has a white background by default. Stata has several new color schemes, and the white one is called Standard. What was the default in Stata 10 is called Classic, so if you want it back, select Edit -> Preferences -> General Preferences and change the scheme for the Results window to it. You can try the other schemes or make your own and save it in Custom 1, Custom 2, or Custom 3.
• In Stata for Windows, you can now choose among five different default layouts for the overall size and position of Stata’s windows or, just as previously, you can make your own. Select Edit -> Preferences -> and pick a layout. In addition to layout Factory Settings, available are Compact Window Layout and three Presentation layouts optimized for different projector resolutions.
• Output scrolling in the Result window is now significantly faster. In addition, the upper limit of set scrollbufsize has been increased to 2,000,000.
• Stata for Unix now supports copying graphs to the clipboard in bitmap format.
• Stata for Mac now supports copying graphs to the clipboard in PDF format.
• Stata for Mac's graphical user interface (GUI) has been completely rewritten in Apple's Cocoa programming interface.
• Stata for Mac is now available as a universal binary that runs natively on 32-bit Intel- or PowerPC-based Macs and 64-bit Intel- based Macs to deliver optimal performance for all three architectures in a single package.

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