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From | Alan Riley <ariley@stata.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Dialog box for opening a file |
Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:45:23 -0500 |
David Epstein (david.l.epstein@gmail.com) reports that his original dialog (.dlg) file still has a problem, and asks a question about an alternative approach: > Thanks very much to Alan for the response. In my original file, I did > not have a line break in the TEXT field, so that's not the problem for > me. I'm confused, then, as to why the code worked for you and not for > me. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm on a Mac, rather than a Windows > machine?? This shouldn't affect how the dialog works -- they are designed to be platform independent. I actually tried your dialog under Linux, and it worked there. Contact our Technical Services group at tech-support@stata.com and attach your file, and they can help debug what is going on. > And I will check out the window fopen approach again, but I thought > that it wouldn't work since I'm opening a .csv file rather than a > Stata .dta file. Is this not a limitation? The example in -help window fopen- is for a .dta file, but -window fopen- can be used to open files of any type. Here is an example of it for use with .csv files. It uses the -insheet- command with the options you were wanting your dialog to put on the command line: program opencsv version 12 capture window fopen FNAME "Select a file to open:" /// "CSV Files (*.csv)|*.csv|All Files (*.*)|*.*" csv if _rc==0 { display "User chose $FNAME as the filename." insheet using "$FNAME", names clear } end Alan ariley@stata.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/