[Gretl-devel] Re: [Gretl-users] Re: new gretl snapshots available
On 09/08/2024 18:41, Cottrell, Allin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Am 08.08.2024 um 14:13 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
>> Thanks for testing. Evidently there are some subtle gtk3/gtk2
>> differences which need to be investigated before we think of replacing
>> the win64 version with gtk3.
>
> Another of those subtle differences: The GTK2 version reports
> $sysinfo.stack_size 4x as large as the GTK3 one on the same machine
> (roughly 8e6 vs. 2e6). Both the respectively latest snapshots, with a
> couple of days of age difference. I remember that this number was
> recently increased (see changelog for 2024b), but apparently only
> conditionally somehow?
My configure-script options were slightly out of date for the gtk3
Windows build. That's now fixed, so the next snapshot will have the
bigger stack.
Another glitch with the GTK3 build: at least on my Win 10 VM, resizing
windows is very difficult. It looks as if you have to grab the right
_pixel_ to activate resizing.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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