problem with split-view of script editor
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
here's what I'm seeing in a script editor window where I chose the split
view, so that the top half shows the beginning of the script and the
bottom half shows the end:
I type in the lower half, but I have auto-suggestions activated, and
whenever a suggestion pops up, the focus of the upper half also moves to
the same place. So the purpose of the split-view is made obsolete.
This is the latest snapshot on Windows 11. Do you also see this on Linux?
thanks
sven
6 days, 23 hours
string-valued series and string functions
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
I know this is very much in the nice-to-have-but-not-strictly-necessary
category, but working with a cross-country panel where the country codes
are in a string-valued series, I must say it would be nice if functions
like instring() worked for those series. Instead I'm using a chain of
direct equality comparisons, which works fine, but gets a bit tedious.
Probably material for a request ticket.
cheers
sven
1 month, 1 week
some package using data-dependent default values for non-int scalars?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi all,
referring to the function package guide section 4.3.2, "Run-time limits
and defaults". This should apply to int(egers) and scalar(s), and I
think for integers I have used that successfully at least for the upper
and lower limits (not sure about the defaults).
But for general scalars, I'm having problems cooking up a working
example - so is there a package out there that uses this feature?
Or going back to integers, a package that does run-time defaults, not
just limits?
thanks
sven
1 month, 4 weeks
a translatable string
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
in lib/src/graphing.c, the following line's string needs to be marked
for translation I guess:
title = g_strdup_printf("%s by group", gname)
Is it enough to replace the quoted string with _("%s by group") in this
case?
thanks
sven
1 month, 4 weeks
error with "print meanc"
by Sven Schreiber
Hi all and sorry, I don't have time to construct a minimal example,
inside a function I had some debug statements like:
print meanc(mymatrix, TRUE)
Some of them worked fine, but one of them produced some kind of syntax
error.
Then I replaced "print" with "eval", and it worked again.
This is with a Feb 7th snapshot on Windows.
cheers
sven
2 months
ui-maker and missing warning messages
by Sven Schreiber
Good morning,
this is again about authoring a function package and using ui-maker.
Take conditional sensitivity, for example. I'm often making the mistake
that I don't use a string there, i.e. I don't put the name of the
argument in quotes. Example: _(depends=hey) instead of _(depends="hey").
When building the package (via gretlcli -m), gretl doesn't complain
about this, it just doesn't work (understandably). It would be helpful
if gretl complained if the type is wrong in this context, i.e. not a string.
thanks
sven
2 months, 1 week
Failure to build the latex files in fedora 44 and 45
by Johannes Lips
Dear all,
I am having issues building the latest release for fedora 44 and fedora 45.
--------------------------------------------------------
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font U/rsfs/m/n/12=rsfs10 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not
found
.
<to be read again>
relax
l.108
?
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again>
relax
l.108
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on gig.log.
make[3]: *** [Makefile:10: gig.pdf] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
'/builddir/build/BUILD/gretl-2026a-build/gretl-2026a/addons/gig/doc'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:42: doc/gig.pdf] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/builddir/build/BUILD/gretl-2026a-build/gretl-2026a/addons/gig'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:30: gig] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/builddir/build/BUILD/gretl-2026a-build/gretl-2026a/addons'
make: *** [Makefile:73: addons] Error 2
--------------------------------------------------------
The main build fails in the creation of pdfs for addons.
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/7561/142227561/build.log
Thanks a lot!
All the best,
Johannes
2 months, 1 week
"empty" return value
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
is the following supposed to work?:
<hansl>
function matrices Mhey(void)
return empty # gives generic "data error", works with defarray()
end function
Mhey()
</hansl>
thanks
sven
2 months, 1 week
spurious description string in pointerized series arg
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
the attached script files demonstrate a bug. Please run the
bugtest_driver.inp script which includes the other script
port_bugtest.inp. The example uses the built-in example dataset abdata.
The point is that the top-level series "e" which is passed as a pointer
arg to the function (factcoint_test) gets a spurious and more or less
arbitrary description string, sometimes including non-printable
characters. Actually sometimes the correct description happens; in that
case please just run the script again. To trigger the bug it seems
necessary to have an enclosing loop.
In itself it's not a big deal, but since apparently chunks of memory end
up where they do not belong, maybe some related unknown bugs exist and
may be fixed by getting this straight.
This is a fairly recent snapshot.
thanks
sven
2 months, 1 week
about genr markers (from "Panel data marker strings")
by Sven Schreiber
Hi again,
as you will have guessed, I'm juggling around some panel datasets at the
moment. (BTW, the handling overall has become very nice in recent years,
thanks to string-valued series, refinements in panel time setting, and
join, etc.)
I tried the recipe from the guide described under "Panel data marker
strings" in chapter 4. Instead of the given line <genr markers =
"%s:%d", marker, year> I tried a more compact thing, replacing the
"year" series with the formula "1989+time" (where "time" exists
already). This produced no error, but gave rubbish output in the new
markers. I guess a formula expression is not allowed there, but then I
guess it should be intercepted somehow.
(The recipe as given worked OK.)
thanks
sven
2 months, 2 weeks
