Allan Garland ([email protected]) asked about the number of items
allowed in Stata's programmable menus. James Muller
([email protected]) and Chinh Nguyen ([email protected])
suggested some workarounds for him. I have one more suggestion.
I assume that Allan is using the menus to link to various dialogs.
rather than using the menu system to link to single dialogs, Allan
could use the menu system to link to help files which contained
pages of links to dialogs. For example, Allan could have a help
file which looked like
Statistics
Linear Models and Related
Linear regression *
Regression diagnostics
Specification tests, etc.
-------------------------
Added-variable plot
Component-plus-residual plot
...
ANOVA
Analysis of variance and covariance
Test linear hypotheses after anova
Specification tests after anova
-------------------------
One-way ANOVA
Large one-way ANOVA
Box-Cox regression
Errors-in-variables regression
...
Asy ou can see, this looks like an excerpt from Stata's "Statistics"
menu, but Allan could use whatever organization worked best for him.
The help file would use SMCL's {dialog} tag to make it such that
when the user clicked on, say, "One-way ANOVA", Stata would launch
the dialog box for -oneway-:
{dialog oneway:One-way ANOVA}
--Alan
([email protected])
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
