Re: st: Dialog box for opening a file

[Alan Riley <ariley@stata.com>]

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
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