[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.7.7 released

As usual, see http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 8/28/2008 version 1.7.7 - Revamp of internal handling of scalar variables - The --preserve option to the "nulldata" and "open" commands now preserves existing scalars as well as matrices - Windows package: update to GTK+ 2.12.11 and friends - Inside functions: restrict the smpl command within the bounds set on entry to the function - setobs command: if used inside a function, revert the effects on exit - ordered probit/logit: fix for the case where the dependent variable does not form a continuous integer sequence; fix reporting of information criteria; switch to the mode of presentation of cut-points used by Stata and R - string-editing dialogs: ensure we have a cancel button - Saving data when the dataset is currently sub-sampled: fix breakage whereby the option to restore the full dataset was not shown - Naming variables: put in place more stringent checking to avoid name collisions across series, scalars, matrices, etc. - VARs in saved sessions: ensure that we save the information needed for subsequent bootstrap analyses - Fix the mechanism for searching for a user's customized LaTeX preamble file (got broken at some point) - LaTeX compilation: be more lenient -- getting some output on standard error does not necessarily mean that compilation has failed - Determining the main gretl directory: try to handle the case where the user has a stale ~/.gretl2rc file - Minor OS X fixes - Respect keyboard "Esc" as dialog "Cancel" more consistently - Variable selection dialogs: allow use of right and left arrow keys to activate the "Add" and "Remove" buttons - Linear models without a constant: print the centered R^2 as well as the uncentered - Fix for reading native data files containing auto-generated lags: re-establish the lag info correctly -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC