DataView Getting Started Guide - MODLER
11/15/11MODLER DataView for WindowsEconomic Information SystemDataViewGetting Started GuideMODLER Information Technologies PressPhiladelphia and Cambridge
2Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment onthe part of the publisher nor the manufacturer. The software this manual describes is furnished under alicense agreement by explicit contract and any use other than on the basis of a written contract between theoriginal vendor and the purchaser prima facia constitutes an infringement of the copyright. The manualand the software each may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of that contractualagreement. It is against the law to copy this software or manual onto cassette tape, disk, CDRom, or anyother medium for any purpose other than the purchaser's private use, or the personal use of the purchaser'semployees. Copyright 1984-2011 Alphametrics Corporation. All Rights ReservedAll rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ortransmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise,without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. This copyright covers not only thepresentation of information in this manual, but also the program’s human interface, the DataViewcommand syntax and the way in which the commands are ordered to form the language as a whole.LIMITED WARRANTYNeither the manufacturer nor the distributors of the DataView software shall have any liability orresponsibility to the purchaser or any other person or entity with respect to any liability, loss, or damagecaused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this product, including but not limited to anyinterruption of service, loss of business or anticipatory profits or consequential damages resulting from theuse or operation of this product. This product will be exchanged within twelve months from the date ofpurchase if it is found to be defective in manufacture, labeling, or packaging; but except for suchreplacement the license of this software is without warranty or liability.The above is a limited warranty and the only warranty made by the manufacturer, publisher, or distributorsof the DataView software. Any and all warranties for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose arehereby excluded.Trademarks AcknowledgedMODLER, MODLER BLUE, MODLER MBA, DataView and their derivatives are trademarks of C.G.Renfro & Associates. LOTUS 1-2-3 and WordPro are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation.Quattro Pro and WordPerfect are trademarks of Corel Systems. Excel, MS-DOS, and Word are trademarksof Microsoft Corporation. All other product names in this publication are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of their respective owners.
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5Table of ContentsIntroduction. 9The DataView Installation Process . 11Initial Installation . 11A Peak Behind the Curtain. 14Configuring DataView for Use . 15Configuring External Programs for DataView . 17Organization of DataView-related Files: Multiple Projects Support. 19Configuring Windows for DataView . 22SnagIt Capabilities . 23Program Features . 24Installing SnagIt . 25Operating System Characteristics . 27Runtime Errors Information. 28Trusted Websites. 33Accessing Operating System Features Via DataView. 35Printer Setup and the Control Panel. 35Performance Monitor . 36Disk Management Services. 38Detailed System Information . 45Updating DataView for Windows. 47Automatic DataView Updates . 47Windows Error Messages Following Automatic Updates . 49Semi-Automatic DataView Updates . 50Updating DataView by Hand . 69Files Available at WWW.MODLER.COM . 73DataView Supplementary Files: DWinSup.EXE. 73Enhanced Capabilities. 73Other Useful Files . 74References . 77
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7List of FiguresFigure 1. Shortcut Properties . 12Figure 2. Setting Up for Installation of DataView for Windows. 13Figure 3. Directory Selection Screen. 13Figure 4. SOAP Toolkit Option . 14Figure 5. Installation Complete . 14Figure 6. Opening Screen, DataView for Windows . 16Figure 7. Help Options for DataView. 17Figure 8. Directory Settings Form . 18Figure 9. Textbox Editing Menu. 23Figure 10. User Account Control Settings. 32Figure 11. Internet Properties Option Form. 34Figure 12. Trust Sites List Form. 34Figure 13. DataView Access to Operating System Facilities. 35Figure 14. Printer Setup . 36Figure 15. Control Panel Options . 36Figure 16. Performance Monitor . 37Figure 17. Windows Task Manager, Vista and Windows 7 . 38Figure 18. Resource Monitor (Vista and Windows 7). 38Figure 19. Disk Management Services . 39Figure 20. Effect of Removing and Adding A Drive. 40Figure 21. Reactivating a hard disk . 41Figure 22. After Reactivation . 41Figure 23. Assigning a Drive Letter . 42Figure 24. Adding a Drive Letter. 42Figure 25. Selecting the Drive Letter. 43Figure 26. Drive Letter Assigned . 43Figure 27. Detailed System Information. 45Figure 28. Option to Enable the Automatic Update Facility . 48Figure 29. Update Verification Dialog . 49Figure 30. DataView Help Choices . 51Figure 31. Initial DataView Response to Update Request . 52Figure 32. DataView Response to Slow Operation . 52Figure 33. Initial Netscape DataView Update Screen . 53Figure 34. Netscape File Download Dialog box. 53Figure 35. Download Directory Selector Screen . 54Figure 36. Download Monitor Form. 54Figure 37. Final Update Forms . 55Figure 38. Recent Changes Form. 56Figure 39. Final Update Form. 56Figure 40. DataView Documents and Supplementary Programs . 58Figure 41. Internet Explorer File Download Form . 59Figure 42. Save As. Download Form. 59
8Figure 43.Figure 44.Figure 45.Figure 46.Figure 47.Figure 48.Figure 49.Figure 50.Figure 51.Figure 52.Figure 53.Figure 54.Figure 55.Figure 56.Figure 57.Figure 58.Figure 59.Figure 60.Figure 61.Download Monitor Form. 60Final Update Forms . 60Recent Changes Form. 61Final Update Form. 61Vain Attempt Message . 62Confirm Update Form . 63Firefox DataView Update Page. 64Not yet downloaded form. 64Mozilla Firefox File Download Form . 65Downloads Form . 65Firefox Customize Form. 65Flexible Download directory Option. 66Open Executable File . 66Unknown Publisher Warning . 66Extraction Window. 67Manual Extraction Form . 67Update Executable Files. 68Recent DataView Changes . 69Restart Form . 69
9IntroductionWindows versions of the DataView Economic Information System are the latestgeneration of a software package that has its origins in the mainframe era. As has beentrue of all versions of the software since 1968, DataView is designed to be evolutionary,incorporating time-tested algorithms but fully adapted to the most modern protocols.And increasingly, during the past several years, facilities have been incorporated into thesoftware that permit it to operate effectively in the wider context of the Internet, as wellas on standalone microcomputers and those connected to local networks.This version is designed specifically to work with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, andWindows 7 but at the same time to be as backwardly compatible as possible. TheDataView for Windows user interface obeys the standard Windows conventions and alsoincorporates facilities that readily permit the hand-in-glove use of the software withInternet browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Netscape. Using DataView, you canthus link directly to websites and, in particular, easily download datasets that can beimported immediately. The www.modler.com website is a ready resource and DataViewitself supports a wide variety of data transfer protocols. Moreover, links can be madebetween the program and online data sources that allow essentially continuous data bankupdating.A further important characteristic of DataView is its support for legacy applications:in order to support easy conversion, by design the macro language of the Windowsversions is a superset of that of earlier DOS versions. More generally, legacy support is aDataView design principle in all respects: the Windows versions are designed to workwith files created earlier using the Microsoft, PC and DR DOS operating systems.Specifically, data banks, Memoryfiles, and table templates created using DOS versions ofDataView can be used unchanged with Windows versions. Plot macros created usingDOS versions can be used with Windows versions, although those automaticallygenerated using Windows versions will incorporate specific commands that are notrecognized by DOS versions of DataView. To a degree, the progress of the Windowsoperating systems force unavoidable change: some DataView macro files created duringthe past 30 years will need to be updated due to irreconcilable differences between DOSand Windows, particularly in those instances in which external-to-DataView DOSprograms are launched by such macros, but even in the worst case the required codechanges are likely to be marginal.The purpose of this Getting Started and Maintenance Guide is to provide you withinstallation information. However, the focus is wider than just the initial installationprocedures. The immediate process of installing the software on your computer is for themost part automated. Once you issue the Setup command, ordinarily by simply insertingthe DataView installation CDROM into your optical drive, and have answered such
10questions as which directory(ies) you wish to use, the installation itself is almostautomatic. But there are also several aspects of the software configuration that need to beconsidered, and usually will require you to make a few decisions. In addition, this guidespecifically describes the files that the DataView installation puts onto your hard disk;furthermore, in the case of particular text files it provides information about content thatmight be helpful from time to time.This guide also describes common update procedures, which is its maintenancefunction. The DataView software is updated regularly, reflecting not only improvementsmade in the software but as well the effect of technology advances. For example, overthe past decade, there has been a fundamental change in the degree to which data sourcesuse the Internet as a distribution mechanism. With the ongoing development of bothwired Internet connections and progressively faster wide-area wireless facilities, includedthe Cloud, there is likely to be considerable further change during the next ten years,refocusing computing in the process. An aspect of the current update process is thatduring the past eight or ten years, since version 10.4 of the program it has becomepossible to update DataView more or less automatically by downloading each newversion from the www.modler.com website. Details concerning this process can be foundby clicking on Help on the main DataView menu, then selecting Contents, and choosing“Updating Your Copy of DataView.” More recently, starting with Build 24 of version10.4, an automatic updating facility has been added: provided that your initially installedversion of DataView is this build or later and your machine is connected to the Internet,when changes are made to DataView and are published on its website, you will benotified automatically that a later version of the program has become available. If youchoose to update to that version, this update will occur essentially automatically,although sometimes you may need to subsequently restart DataView for the update totake effect. This facility is described later in this document.Please note that in the interest of simplicity, this Getting Started and MaintenanceGuide limits itself to explaining the specific aspects of installing, re-installing, orupdating DataView. There are a number of ancillary topics that could be addressed andare important in terms of the appearance and accessibility of DataView on your machine.For example, the color of the banners and other aspects of the screen displays are eachdetermined by the current Windows settings on your machine, controlled by theparticular version of this operating system you are using. You may be happy to use thedefault settings, but should you wish you are alternatively able to more specificallyconfigure these displays. If you are reading this guide either onscreen or from a printedcopy that has been produced on a color printer, you will notice in the Figures below thatvarious different banner colors appear. Similarly, some of the Figures display the bannertext in larger or smaller fonts; this too is potentially under your control via the variousWindows display settings. There are a number of books available that discuss suchtopics in detail, ranging from the well-known Idiots Guide to series of books to themuch more technical Windows Secrets series, as well as the “official” Microsoftvolumes [1, 2, 4]. The econometric facilities of DataView, which are a subset ofMODLER’s are described in a recent book, The Practice of Econometric Theory,published by Springer [3].
11The DataView Installation ProcessToday, in terms of the medium used, DataView software is distributed in a variety ofways, but today mainly either by CDRom or as a set of files that are sent as emailattachments, or otherwise downloaded from the Internet. There is an essential similaritybetween all the methods, as will be described. However, there are certain importantdefinitions that transcend the distribution medium. As a matter of definition, the term“Installation” will be used to refer to a process that is complete in itself and involvesputting onto your machine all the files that are necessary in order to operate theDataView software. In contrast, the term “Update” will be used to refer to a process thatinvolves replacing specific files, but not all the files necessary to operate DataView.Initial InstallationThis section describes how to install DataView for Windows for the first time on aparticular machine. Alternatively, it provides instructions for any complete reinstallation of the software, as if from scratch. Particularly in the case of a first timeinstallation, the first step depends upon the form in which you receive the InstallationFiles:1) If you received a CDROM, place this disc in your machine’s CD or DVD drive, asrelevant. Much less commonly these days, if you received diskettes, place the onemarked Installation or System Disk 1 in your diskette drive. In either case,DataView for Windows will be installed using what is technically known as aSetup program: the executable for the installation program is named SETUP.EXE.Ordinarily, this program will be executed automatically if you are installing from aCDRom – simply inserting a CDRom into the relevant drive on your machine willusually cause SETUP.EXE to execute automatically.2) If instead you received DataView as an email attachment, or more generally anInternet download, the “deliverables” will usually consist of from 1 to 3compressed, self-extracting executable files. Begin by creating a temporarydirectory/folder on your hard disk, which ultimately can be erased when you havefinished the DataView installation; call it \JUNK or \TEMP or some other suchname. Then expand all the downloaded self-extracting files into this directory, byfirst copying them to the directory and then executing them in turn.Next, you should create a permanent directory to hold the essential program files.This directory can be called \DVIEW or some other such meaningful name; during
12the installation process you can specify this directory and have it created more orless automatically. In any case, this directory must be nominally different fromany that you might have created during the process described in the paragraph justabove, which is why \JUNK and \TEMP were suggested there as temporary folder(or directory) names. Furthermore, the permanent directory should be a direct rootdirectory, so that its full name might be C:\DVIEW, assuming that C: identifiesyour principal hard drive. The program files for the DOS and Windows versions ofDataView are nominally different, so that it would be possible even to use the samedirectory for both versions.However, if you do this, you run the risk ofinadvertently deleting some demonstration and other supplementary files, so that ifyou are running both the DOS and Windows version, it may be better to call yourDataView for Windows program directory C:\DTAVIEW, in the process separatingthe program files for each version.This new directory will be permanent, as noted, and normally will be used to hold,among other things, the executable files for DataView for Windows, plus thehelpfile; it may from time to time incidentally contain demonstration files put thereduring a DataView installation or update. At this stage, you will be ready to beginthe actual installation. As mentioned earlier, the installation executable is namedSETUP.EXE and it can be run from the Windows Run command, using a commandof the form:C:\JUNK\SETUPassuming that you have loaded all the installation files into the C:\JUNK directory;of course, if you have created this installation directory using another name and/ordrive, instead use the relevant drive letter and directory name. Later, onceDataView has been installed, whenever a Shortcut has been created—for instance,in order to permit you to execute the program from your “desktop” folder, thispermanent directory must be identified as the “Start in” directory, as shown inFigure 1. Notice that the name of the DataView for Windows executable,DVWIN.EXE is also included.Figure 1. Shortcut Properties
13In either case 1) or 2), at this point of the process the installation program should be inexecution. You first will see a message indicating that Windows is copying initializationfiles and then, in the middle of your screen, a display like that shown in Figure 2; thisdisplay may be embedded in a blue fullscreen display. Obviously, if you wish tocontinue with the installation, you should press the OK button at this point.Figure 2. Setting Up for Installation of DataView for WindowsIf you click OK, you will then be presented with a display like that shown below inFigure 2, which also may be embedded in a slightly more elaborate fullscreen display.Figure 3. Directory Selection ScreenRegarding Figure 3, note the Change Directory button on the right-hand-side of thisdisplay. This button can obviously be used to browse your hard drive and select thedirectory into which the installation program should install the DataView executablefiles, here shown as C:\DVIEW\. As indicated earlier, the directory specified hereshould not be the same as any temporary directory you might have created earlier to storetemporary files. Furthermore, be aware that all files in this permanent directory aresubject to being overwritten, without further warning, if they have names the same asthose of the DataView program files that are about to be installed.Now look once again at Figure 3. On the left is a button displaying a computer, whichat first may not look like a button. This is nevertheless the one you must press in order toactually install the software. When you press it, initially a rapid succession of a screen
14displays will flash by, which indicate that the Installation program is copying andinstalling files. After a few moments, you will see as well the dialogue box shown inFigure 4, the purpose of which is obviously to ask you whether or not you wish to installthe SOAP Toolkit 3.0. SOAP is an acronym for Simple Online Access Protocol. Thisprotocol is used whenever DataView is automatically updated online. Generally, youshould answer “Yes” to the question if you have not previously installed the SOAPToolkit and if you think that you will wish to use DataView’s automatic update facility.Installation of the SOAP Toolkit is essential to this facility.Figure 4. SOAP Toolkit OptionThese screens are followed by the display shown in Figure 5 that indicates that theprogram has been successfully installed, and at which point the screen pauses. What hasoccurred during this installation process is explained in the next section, entitled “A PeakBehind the Curtain.” But, using your computer, you are encouraged to use WindowsExplorer or other file manager program to look at the files that have been installed in thedirectory you specified.Figure 5. Installation CompleteA Peak Behind the CurtainEven in the case of a first installation of DataView for Windows, prior to thatinstallation you may already have on your computer a version of DataView. Forinstance, you may have a DOS version that you wish to upgrade to the Windows version,but you may also wish to reserve the option of continuing to use the DOS version fromtime to time, at least during a transition period. For this reason, the DataView forWindows installation process is designed to be Legacy Aware. We are conscious of thefact that much of the value of DataView as a software system resides in the macros, databanks, and other files that you may have created literally during years of work, and that
15therefore it is very important for you to be able to use these in the future, if at allpossible.In general, an installation of DataView will not affect the various files that you haveconsciously created as you have used earlier versions of the program, including but notlimited to data banks, macro files, plot files, and table templates. There may beexceptions to this rule, if you have named your bank DEMOBANK.BNK or a macro fileDEMO.MAC, or a table template DEMO.TAB. But for the most part, installation isrestricted to loading files that consist of so-called executables (those with the extentEXE), help files (those with the extent HLP), and library and other system files thatgenerally are placed in the Windows System directory (also called a “folder”); the latterconsist of files that have extents such as DLL, OCX, VXD, and VBX. Of these, the onlyfiles that you will need to consider during installation are EXE and HLP files; that is,those with these extents.However, as indicated, there are also some other files that take the form ofdemonstration data banks, macro files, plot files, table templates, and text files that areprovided with DataView in order to help you get started; together with the EXE and HLPfiles, these will generally be installed in the directory that you specify explicitly orimplicitly when you press the installation button of Figure 2, and you can avoid anyoverwrites by making sure to save anything in that directory prior to the installation.Other configuration files, such as DATAVIEW.INI and PROJECT.INI, which aredescribed later, do not appear in either the Windows directory nor among the DataViewexecutables, but instead are created by DataView during the configuration process that isdiscussed below.You should also be aware that any installation of a Windows program will usuallyinvolve copying some files to the Windows System directory, as has been mentioned inpassing. Sometimes, particularly if you are installing a program the copy of which wascreated some years
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