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st: Re: double-clicking on *.gph


From   "Sascha O. Becker" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: double-clicking on *.gph
Date   Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:55:17 +0100

Dear Alan,

you are absolutely right!
I did what you suggested and it works now.
Does this mean that file associations will get messed up again every time I use Stata 7 ?
(I do use Stata 7 once in a while to test if commands I for Stata 8 write work smoothly under both versions)

Cheers, Sascha

Sascha O. Becker (sascha.becker@g...) asked about double-clicking
on a .gph file in Windows:
> when double-clicking on a Stata 8 graph (saved as *.gph) in Windows
> Explorer, I get the error message
>
> graph using "D:\yl_occ.gph"
> graph using is no longer supported; type graph use ... to use a Stata 8
> graph, or graph7 using ... to use an old format, Stata 7 graph.
> r(198);

When Stata first starts, it installs some registry settings which control
what happens when a user double-clicks on a Stata file (.dta, .gph, .do,
.smcl). For .gph files, Stata 8 puts

graph use "%1"

into the registry, where %1 is replaced with the name of the file
which is double-clicked by the user. Stata 7 would put

graph using "%1"

Given Sascha's description, I believe that Stata 7 must have been
run on the computer at some point after Stata 8 was installed. To
restore the default Stata 8 registry settings for file associations,
Sascha should start Stata 8, pull down the Prefs menu, and select
Restore File Associations.


--Alan

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