Thanks for the feedback,
Danstan,
The only way I've been able to figure out to run selections is to save the selection to a temporary file and run the temporary file. Alan suggested saving the file in /temp/somthing.do, rather than in the current working directory. I think that makes sense and will give it a bid. I looked at the R bundle's implementation of running a selection, and as best I could tell (not very well, granted) it relies on some AppleScript that Stata doesn't recognize. Simply stealing the R implementation was my first instinct, but I couldn't get it to work (which doesn't mean, it can't work, just that I couldn't get it to work).
Alan,
Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll probably use both of them,
Tim
Tim,
I think the temporary file approach (for dealing with selections) might be the one that works with stata.. It seems that AlphaX uses the same approach via tcl.
Here is the do selection part from the alphaX stata mode with the tcl code if it is of any help (or if any of the textmate users that understand both can help with ):
# ======================================================================== === # # Do Selection # # Procedure to implement transfer of selected lines to Stata for processing. #
proc Stta::doSelection {{selection ""} {app "Stata"}} {
global SttamodeVars
if {$selection == ""} { if {![isSelection]} { status::msg "No selection -- cancelled." return } else { set selection [getSelect] } } set tempDir [temp::directory Stata] set newFile [file join $tempDir temp-Stata.do] file::writeAll $newFile $selection 1
app::launchBack '$SttamodeVars(stataSig)' sendOpenEvent noReply '$SttamodeVars(stataSig)' $newFile switchTo '$SttamodeVars(stataSig)' }
proc Stta::quitHook {} {temp::cleanup Stata}
# ======================================================================== ===
We could use the temprory file workaround as we figure out an elegant textmate-centric solution.
danstan
On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Timothy Beatty wrote:
Thanks for the feedback,
Danstan,
The only way I've been able to figure out to run selections is to save the selection to a temporary file and run the temporary file. Alan suggested saving the file in /temp/somthing.do, rather than in the current working directory. I think that makes sense and will give it a bid. I looked at the R bundle's implementation of running a selection, and as best I could tell (not very well, granted) it relies on some AppleScript that Stata doesn't recognize. Simply stealing the R implementation was my first instinct, but I couldn't get it to work (which doesn't mean, it can't work, just that I couldn't get it to work).
Alan,
Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll probably use both of them,
Tim
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Since the stata bundle, to run selections of text , uses a temp do file (that it places in the project directory by the current formulation, if the working directory in stata is not the TM project directory, it cannot find the file and does not run (unless I manually do a "cd TO THE TM_PROJECT FILE" manually within stata). This must be simple to crudely automate - I wanted to further modify Tim's trigger applescript that is running this temp.do file by prefixing it with the $TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY (but I am not sure how environment variables & files are concatenated in the applescript world?) as in
query=${TM_SELECTED_TEXT:-$TM_CURRENT_LINE} echo "$query" > textmatetostata.do
osascript -e "tell application "Stata" activate open POSIX file {$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY} & "textmatetostata.do" end tell"
Otherwise, I would appreciate any other elegant solution. (I should note that within stata the working directory is set by the menu dialogue item triggered by shift-apple-j in case one would take that route).
thanks in advance
danstan
On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Timothy Beatty wrote:
Thanks for the feedback,
Danstan,
The only way I've been able to figure out to run selections is to save the selection to a temporary file and run the temporary file. Alan suggested saving the file in /temp/somthing.do, rather than in the current working directory. I think that makes sense and will give it a bid. I looked at the R bundle's implementation of running a selection, and as best I could tell (not very well, granted) it relies on some AppleScript that Stata doesn't recognize. Simply stealing the R implementation was my first instinct, but I couldn't get it to work (which doesn't mean, it can't work, just that I couldn't get it to work).
Alan,
Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll probably use both of them,
Tim
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