Re: st: Capture Code from Graph Editor

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Lisa,

is this what you need?
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?graph_editor#recorder

The good news is that the recording itself is Stata code. The bad news
is that it is probably not the Stata code you are up to.

As I understand you are looking for which options of the original
graph command are responsible for the changes you are doing with the
graph on the screen. There is no such 'reverse engineering' facility
in Stata. Instead the recordings manipulate objects created as
products of the original graph command. These inner workings of
graphics are not documented (which does not mean you can't work with
them:) . And the recording file contains a comment:
// Edit only if you know what you are doing.

If you want to study graphics in the similar way you studied the
options of the estimation and data manipulation commands, I would
recommend you an excellent book by Mitchell:
http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Guide-Stata-Graphics-Edition/dp/1597181064

It illustrates the working of each individual option (highlighted)
with an example.

Hope this helps.

Best, Sergiy

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Lisa Wang <lhwang0925@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Statalisters,
>
> I am wondering whether there is anything that will capture the
> settings that I make in Graph Editor (eg. colours, change axes titles,
> font sizes add a horizontal/vertical line....).
>
> I learnt a lot of code of different functions to include in my do
> files now through using the drop down menus. The code was then shown
> in the Results Window, so I could use it again in a different context.
>
> Is there something equivalent in Graph Editor; however, the Results
> window is grayed out when Graph Editor is started? I am not trying to
> automate the process to apply to many graphs but would like to learn
> how the code to include into my dofile instead.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Lisa
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