Expressions in table proc arguments

[paues]

Many table procedures seems not be able to handle expressions as arguments. It would be very helpful to be able to specify relative column/row references rather than absolute ones. As Eviews works now, code snippet 1 needs to be rewritten as code snippet 2 in order to work.

Code snippet 1

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close @all
wfcreate a 1900 1901
table(1,3) mytable
!column=1
mytable.setfont(1,!column+2) +b

Code snippet 2

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close @all
wfcreate a 1900 1901
table(1,3) mytable
!column=1
!tmpcol=!column+2
mytable.setfont(1,!tmpcol) +b

[EViews Glenn]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[DannyBachman]

I can't even get the following to work:

scalar count = 3
adfstats.setfont(!count,3) +b

The error message is "Invalid cell range, invalid row value in !count". I get the same error message whether or not I use the "!"

[EViews Gareth]

Using a scalar object is effectively the same thing as using an expression. You can only use program variables, currently.

[EViews Jason]

The next EViews 8 patch will have this fixed for table procs when specifying a cell range. Expressions may not work for any additional arguments or options depending on the procedure.