[Gretl-devel] Re: About Package: yahoo_get 3.9 (2026-01-20)
On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM yinung at Gmail <yinung.cycu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I conducted further investigation into this issue and found that the error message,
"Argument 1 (ticker) is missing," persists in installations from
gretl-2026a-32.exe and gretl-2026a-win32.zip. However, the error does not occur in
gretl-2026a-64.exe.
Could this issue possibly be related to the 32-bit (win32) version only?
Yes, I think I've found the source of the problem. The 32-bit build of
gretl for Windows uses GTK2, while all our other builds now use GTK3.
In late 2025 we added some "remedial" code for GTK2, intended to
emulate functionality that is provided natively by GTK3. Apparently
there's a bug in that code, whereby it "loses" the ticker string
argument for yahoo_get. A fix should be forthcoming before long.
Allin