topic Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor in SAS Programming

Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

Sebbo — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:22:30 GMT

Hi All,

I am unsure what is needed to achieve the following:

Adding a custom text box (that only accepts numbers) to the application toolbar in the SAS enhanced editor that has the following function:

when a number is added the following command is run:

TOP; FORWARD (number-20)

The purpose would be to go to the specified row number in a dataset view and show this row number somewhere in the middle of the screen.

My questions:

Is it possible to add a custom text box that only accepts numbers in Enhanced Editor?
Do I need any additional SAS modules on top of SAS base (like SAS/AF)?

Thank you!

Sebbo

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

ChrisNZ — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:17:55 GMT

Ctrl-G does just that, doesn't it?

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

Sebbo — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:25:30 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thank you for the response!

Ctrl-G only works in the program editor, not in the dataset view. I want something similar when viewing a dataset.

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

ballardw — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:23:25 GMT

@Sebbo wrote:
Hi Chris,

Thank you for the response!

Ctrl-G only works in the program editor, not in the dataset view. I want something similar when viewing a dataset.

The topic title you chose of "Add custom text box to the Enhanced Editor" and the text of your question includes:

Adding a custom text box (that only accepts numbers) to the application toolbar 
in the SAS enhanced editor that has the following function:

it is not surprising that you got the Ctrl-G response.

Note that the Display Manage Toolbars are very context dependent. You would want to affect the toolbar for the Viewtable window, not the editor. If you have a Viewtable window active then you have a different toolbar including the Viewtable options like edit row, commit row, sort , form view , table and column attributes. So you are starting with the concept of editing the wrong toolbar.

Check the documentation of Viewtable commands for what might be accepted on the toolbar. I don't find any involving a row number as you envision this.

The SAS/AF FSVIEW might, and I say might have something similar but I won't bet on it. Plus the implementation might be considerably more work than you envision.

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

Tom — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:34:12 GMT

@Sebbo wrote:
Hi Chris,

Thank you for the response!

Ctrl-G only works in the program editor, not in the dataset view. I want something similar when viewing a dataset.

So you are not using the Enhanced Editor?

What are you using?

ViewTable?

What user interface are you using SAS Display Manager? Enterprise Guide? SAS/Studio?

If you are using SAS Display Manager and you have a command window then perhaps you want a command macro?

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

ChrisNZ — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:39:16 GMT

Why do ask a question for the Enhanced Editor if you want reply for Viewtable?

I and stuck with EG now sadly, so can't test, but doesn't the command =20 do that? I'm not too sure, but recall something along like this.

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

Sebbo — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:00:19 GMT

I have up until now always thought of the 'enhanced editor' as a catch-all name for the combined product (program window, dataset viewer, log window etc.) so my apologies to everyone for the misleading post! As Tom pointed out I should have used the term 'SAS Display Manager' to specify the environment I am working in.

Unfortunately '=20' does not work and the best way I have found while searching this topic is the command 'TOP; FORWARD 150' to go to obs 151 in the dataset view. I guess my question was more to do with the ability to make custom modifications to the interface so that I can add something that saves me re-typing this command all the time.

Let me go and investigate the capacity of the command macro or the SAS/AF FSVIEW as suggested.

Thanks for the help so far,
Sebbo

Re: Add custom text box to Enhanced Editor

ChrisNZ — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:01:17 GMT

> I have up until now always thought of the 'enhanced editor' as a catch-all name for the combined product (program window, dataset viewer, log window etc.)

That's called the Display Manager System, or DMS. There are two editors in the DMS, including the enhanced one.