Installing Your Dialog

Before you can use a custom dialog, you must install it. In the Custom Dialog Builder for Extensions, custom dialogs that you build are contained within an extension. To install a custom dialog, you install the extension that contains the dialog.

  1. From the menus in the Custom Dialog Builder, choose:

    File > Install

    The Extension Properties dialog is displayed. To install an extension, you must specify the properties on the Required tab of the Extension Properties dialog.

    Figure 1. Required tab of Extension Properties dialog
    Required tab of Extension Properties dialog
  2. Enter Rboxplot in the Name field.
  3. Enter Demonstration extension for wrapping the R boxplot function in the Summary field.
  4. Keep the default values of the Version and Minimum SPSS Statistics Version fields.
  5. Click the Optional tab and select Dependencies.
    Figure 2. Dependencies settings of Extension Properties dialog
    Dependencies settings of Extension Properties dialog
  6. Check the Integration Plug-in for R required box. The Rboxplot extension requires the IBM® SPSS® Statistics - Integration Plug-in for R since it is implemented in R.

    Users are alerted at install time if they don't have a required plug-in.

  7. Click Continue.

You should now see the new menu item for your dialog on the Graphs menu.

Note: You can open the Extension Properties dialog at any time from Extension > Properties, within the Custom Dialog Builder for Extension menus.

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