Customizing and extending GenStat for Windows
by
Simon Harding and Darren Murray
VSN International, 5 The Waterhouse, Waterhouse Street,Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP1 1ES, UK.

Recent releases of GenStat for Windows have included substantial improvements to provide better integration within the Windows environment. This talk will focus on particular areas of the 6th and 7th Edition user interfaces that are focussed on achieving this aim including:

• improving customization,
• improved display and editing,
• integration with other applications, and
• new statistical/data manipulation menus.

Another of the great strengths of GenStat is the variety of ways in which it can be customized or extended by the enterprising user. This can vary from simple manipulation of output to suit individual needs, to programming new techniques not covered within the standard set of directives. The success of this approach can be seen from both the size of the procedure library and the number of authors involved. Some recent developments to assist GenStat programmers will be reviewed, including:

• open source of programs and procedures,
• improved support for local libraries,
• new functions and calculations, and
• extended help facilities.

Date received: October 1, 2002

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