Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI matters

Am 09.11.2014 um 21:24 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > There are a couple of aspects of the gretl GUI that have been > bothering me: (1) the matter of what should happen to the output when > you execute a script and there's already a script output window open; > and (2) the matter of auto-showing, or not, the "icon view" window > when something happens that might be of interest in "icon" terms. > ... > (a) "Huh, gretl just trashed my last output!" > (b) "It's confusing to have output pile up like that!" > (c) "Why does gretl keep opening all these damn windows?!" > > So I wanted to make the choice more obvious. The default for a new > installation of gretl is now "none of the above", that is, an "unset" > value for this choice. And if the value is unset then the first time > the choice becomes relevant we pop up a version of the "push-pin" > dialog, with a note pointing out where you can change gretl's > behaviour in future. I've experienced it now and I think it's fine. > > For existing gretl installations, if you just went with the default > value (c) that will now be taken as "unset" and you should see the new > dialog when you run a script with a script window open. If you already > changed the setting and you'd like to check out the new dialog you can > edit your ~/.gretl2rc file: set the variable "script_output_policy" to > 0. (Look for the "stickiness" line.) > > # stickiness of output > script_output_policy = 0 But does that mean there's no GUI way of going back?