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In Eviews code, a command such as

pagecreate(page=page1) Q 1990 2015

creates a new page named page11 if page1 already exists

Is there a way to test for the existence of a page and skip pagecreate ?

@isobject does not seem to find pages as objects

One option is to consider is how another package (I won't name it) lets you right click on the file and select Run using, or Open using ...
In essence there are 2 associations or options that Windows seems to keep straight

I associate my .prgs with Eviews and click on them runs the prg. I just want to open the file in a new workspace -- not run it, as most case i would first need to eduit or update the program. How can I set up the association to do so with a single click ? (besides opening eviews first)

OK so I would do something like series1.displayname "Text here" What if I wanted to use the series description or the description from another series ? Is there global option to display the description in the legend ? And is something like this possible series1.displayname "Ratio of&q...

Can I change the legend text by programming means-- not through the GRAPH Options GUI

Ie something like

plot(legend= 'Unemplyement rate', 'Inflation rate') series1 series2

Just being able to use the series description, not the variable name, might be enough (assuming I can edit the description)

I found some unexpected results -- not hard to fix but maybe my experience will help someone else This command wfopen(type="ODBC") dsnx "select * from stateindex" creates exactly what I want and properly figures out I have a dated panel (cross sectional time series set) with Stat...

I wanted to be sure I understand the ODBC teminology. The manual says use wfopen(type="ODBC") if for DSN Source and wfopen(type="DSN") is for DSN file I assume DSN Source is what Microsoft calls a User DSN and others call a Machine DSN and it is used without quotes wfopen(type=&q...

Am I right that there is no way to fetch and rename a data series in one step,
I.e. change code below to one line

fetch(d=db) oldname
rename oldname newname

in the same way copy can rename

copy db1::series1 newname

Let me make a suggestion in this regard I think it would be useful to have a conventional try - except - else type ability (the Pythonic way is worth looking at http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html as an example) While the method below can be adopted to probably handle 90% or more of the ap...

Gareth -- does this mean that for a saved graph that was manipulated by hand, we can not get a command listing for all of modifications & selected options ? I thought g1.@attr("legend") might work for the legend attributes but I can not figure out how @attr() works and the possible inp...