Creating and Managing Custom Dialogs
The Custom Dialog Builder allows you to create and manage custom dialogs for generating command syntax. Using the Custom Dialog Builder you can:
- Create your own version of a dialog for a built-in IBM® SPSS® Statistics procedure. For example, you can create a dialog for the Frequencies procedure that only allows the user to select the set of variables and then generates command syntax with pre-set options that standardize the output.
- Create a user interface that generates command syntax for an extension command. Extension commands are user-defined IBM SPSS Statistics commands that are implemented in the Python programming language, R or Java. See the topic Custom Dialogs for Extension Commands for more information.
- Open a file containing the specification for a custom dialog--perhaps created by another user--and add the dialog to your installation of IBM SPSS Statistics, optionally making your own modifications.
- Save the specification for a custom dialog so that other users can add it to their installations of IBM SPSS Statistics.
How to Start the Custom Dialog Builder
- From the menus choose: