EViews Help: Managing User Object Classes

To manage your user object definitions, select Add-ins/Manage User Objects... from the main EViews menu.

EViews will display the User objects management dialog opened to the Installed tab:

The top portion of the dialog shows settings for currently registered user object classes. The Name column shows the name of the class, the Definition file column displays the location and file name of the definition “.INI” file for the class (see “Creating an Object Definition File”), and the Version column shows the version number of the user object class.

Note that you may click on the column headers in the list to sort the list by the contents of column.

You may use the buttons on the right-hand side of the dialog to manage your classes:

• To add a new user object to the list, simply click on the Add button to display the Add/Edit User Object dialog. The dialog settings are described in “Registering a User Object Class”.

• To delete a class, simply click on the name in the Add-ins management dialog and press the Remove button.

• To edit the settings of an existing user object class, select it from the list and click on the Edit button to display the Add/Edit User Object dialog. The dialog settings are described in “Registering a User Object Class”.

• To open and edit the INI definition file for the user object class, select it from the list and click on the Open button.

• To examine the documentation file associated with a class, click on the name and press the Docs button.

• To check whether the userobj class has an updated version available, and to install the update if available, click on the Update button. Note you may select multiple classes at the same time and click the Update button to update the set. You may also right click anywhere on the list of user object classes and select Update All to update all of your classes.

The bottom portion of the Installed tab shows the default user objects directory. The default directory is where user objects will be installed and where the user object programs will search for supplementary files if explicit directory locations are not provided. To change the default directory, click on the button on the right and navigate to the desired directory, or simply enter the desired folder name. Click on OK to accept the settings.