A graphics dialog box is not working right on my Windows system. What is going on, and what can I do?
Unfortunately, some operating systems (Windows 98 and its offshoots, such as Windows ME) have restrictions on the number of GUI controls, and this affects Stata’s graphics dialogs. If you try to run a dialog that is too large, or if you have too many other applications running, some of the controls will not appear, and the dialog will not look or work correctly. We had to create special smaller dialogs for these operating systems. If you are using such a platform, Stata automatically loads the Windows 98 version of a given dialog if it exists. For example, if you execute the command db twoway_overlay, you will get the dialog from twoway_overlay_98.dlg. Sometimes, however, even this dialog will not work right. You can use the command set smalldlg on to tell Stata to automatically use the smallest dialogs it can find. Stata will always look for a _98s version of a dialog and run it if it is available. The command set smalldlg on works only with Windows 98-type platforms. If you only want
