[Gretl-devel] Re: some little ideas for function package ui-maker
Am 19.08.2025 um 15:18 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
- Add a possibility to mark the return value as mandatory for a GUI
function (perhaps only for gui-main). Sometimes a package does nothing
else than providing the return value, i.e. no printout, no plots. It
would be useful to disallow running the package without filling in the
return assignment name. (Currently it's always optional AFAIK.)
Actually, it seems there's another problem with the package return value
field in the GUI, at least when the return type is a series. Take the
"cffilt" package, for example:
- Load the australia time-series datasest
- fire up the GUI of cffilt;
- the label for the return value field says something like: "select (or
new variable)" (re-translated from German)
- and there's a drop-down handle on the right
- however, I cannot actually select any of the series in the dataset
Perhaps this is on purpose, in order to protect the existing series? But
then the label wording should be changed in that case.
thanks
sven