gretl 2024a coming up
by Cottrell, Allin
This is just a heads-up for translators of gretl. We plan to release
version 2024a before long, and I've just pushed an update to gretl.pot
with a few new translatable strings. So updates of translations would
be welcome.
Allin
1 month
interaction of zoom and size buttons in plot windows
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
this is a minor quirk, I guess:
- In a plot window, apply a zoom selection (after right-clicking, for
example).
- Then click on the "bigger" button near the bottom-right corner -> the
full frame is restored. Is this intended?
- Even if the previous point is OK, click on the menu button (next to
the "bigger" button), there the selection has turned to "restore full
view" etc., although that has already happened (zoom already undone).
cheers
sven
1 month
loop foreach and strings arrays: since when?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I'm trying to find out since which gretl version it is possible to use a
foreach loop with an array of strings. The official changelog only talks
about the recent enabling of a nested array, but not of the original thing.
Example:
<hansl>
strings S = defarray("hey","ho")
loop foreach s S
print s
print "$s"
endloop
</hansl>
thanks
sven
1 month, 1 week
User guide plotting chapter: outdated section
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
looking at the chapter "6 Graphs and plots", it seems to me that the
sub-section "Publication-quality graphics: advanced options" (within
6.1) is quite outdated. It talks of sizes and terminals and so on which
you haven't really had to touch at least for a couple of years. For PDF
output we have another GUI controller which does all that, and
hand-picking gnuplot terminals is not recommended, I believe.
Just adding another screenshot of the PDF controller window would be
enough to replace that sub-section, I think.
As a cosmetic aside, the picture 6.1 could be updated, the window
decorations look 20 years old. (That's probably true for other
screenshots as well, though...)
cheers
sven
1 month, 3 weeks
error message for GMM options --two-step and --iterate
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
the two gmm options --two-step and --iterate and conceptually
incompatible, and this fact has very recently been enforced in gretl; OK.
Now when I still use the two of them together, for example in the code
given in the ticket
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/feature-requests/208/, then I get two
different error messages in a kind of cycle. The messages are roughly:
- Incompatible options -- which is correct!
- Orthogonality conditions must precede the weight matrix -- which is
rubbish in this case.
This is reproducible in a way the every other time the respective other
message will appear. I'm guessing that when the first error is
encountered, gretl is still "hung" in the gmm block and thinks it's
continuing from there, with the ensuing confusion.
thanks
sven
1 month, 3 weeks
