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add-in: desc

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:58 am
by 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.h ... addin.html

Re: add-in: desc

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:03 am
by MartinsFest
This is something I also would like to know.

Re: add-in: desc

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:52 am
by EViews Gareth
Not currently, other than by parsing the .ini file

Re: add-in: desc

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:22 am
by 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

Re: add-in: desc

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:40 am
by EViews Gareth
Progreg.ini

Re: add-in: desc

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:10 am
by tvonbrasch
great, thanks!

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