[Gretl-devel] Re: no error feedback from GUI join dialog
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 03.09.2020 um 22:54 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
> Am 02.09.2020 um 22:17 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>> We were not double-quoting the filename from which data were to be
>> joined, and the backslashes in Windows filenames were choking the
>> parser. That's now fixed in git and snapshots.
>>
> It seems there's still a little problem with the join dialog. (In the
> snapshot downloaded some hours ago.) Apparently I cannot leave empty the
> field "using the name...", although AFAICS that should just
> automatically use the outer column label for the series's name. (As
> suggested by the grey-color text "same as above".)
>
> But when I type in a new name it's looking good I think.
>
My testing shows that the behavior is different in Linux and Windows. On
Linux with current git it works fine. On Windows with the latest
(yesterday's) snapshot I still get no reaction when the defaults are
left as-is. In the text fields I have to manually delete all the "hint"
entries like "same as above", "same as inner" etc. to make it work.
Perhaps it would be interesting to test on Linux with GTK2, but my
understanding is that you (Allin) are using that all the time anyway?
GTK 2 and 3 are different in this respect. GTK3 offers a specific
API for putting "placeholder text" into an entry box but GTK2 does
not, so I wrote some relatively low-level code to achieve the same
effect. It seems I didn't do that quite right -- or at least not for
Windows. I've reworked the code and tested on Windows 10, and it's
now OK in the current snapshot.
I use both GTK2 and GTK3 on Linux to try to ensure that both are
working, but I prefer GTK2.
Allin