add-in: desc

[tvonbrasch]

Hi,

when making an add-in, we provide a description of the Add-in that will be displayed in the Add-ins management dialog. Is there a way to fetch this description as a string? For example, something like this

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addinname.@attr("description")

or

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addinname.@description

?

If not, is this something you can add?
Thomas

https://www.eviews.com/help/helpintro.html#page/content/commandcmd-addin.html

[MartinsFest]

This is something I also would like to know.

[EViews Gareth]

Not currently, other than by parsing the .ini file

[tvonbrasch]

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for your suggestion! I tried to open the ini-file in windows notepad, but I could not find any information about add-ins in the ini-file (see attachment). Can you please elaborate a bit on how to find this information?

Thomas

[EViews Gareth]

Progreg.ini

[tvonbrasch]

great, thanks!

is there a command for retrieving the ini file path? (such as @inipath)

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