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@dateval usually just figures it out without needing a format

No, it is a global setting in EViews.



I think there's probably an easy way to do what you want, but I don't understand, yet, what you're trying to do.

No, the spreadsheet view of a group does not allow you to use displaynames instead of actual names. You could write a quick add in that does it for you. Freeze the spreadsheet view of the group into a table, loop through the columns replacing the text in the first row with the displayname of the ser...

format or frequency? @pagefreq give the frequency.

Format is machine based, not page/file based.

Not built in, no

I don't follow what you want here.

The show command is used to display a view of an object.

You could use which would display the label view, that has the displayname as one of the entries?

Probably

I believe return will exit out of a subroutine, if in one, and exit out of a program otherwise. So, exiting out of a program whilst in a subroutine I think is not possible in one go.

Sorry, opacity and anti-aliasing.

But, you can return the list of options provided with the @getoptions function: You can retrieve the ith option with @option:

I don't understand what you're asking here.

I think both issues are due to opacity - opacity doesn't work well with dashed lines. If you turn off opacity for all the lines in the chart, it should behave better.

Sorry, I'm getting quite lost.

As far as I can tell, the issue you are experiencing is that you have a graph object that when saved to disk as a PDF, the dashed lines don't appear.

Do you have a workfile we can use that has such a graph object?

Line 27 of the program: What's that?