Re: [Gretl-devel] MIDAS: gretl crash
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Artur T. wrote:
Attached you find a picture. Nothing 'greyed out' here. Also:
When I
click on "Garch variants" a menu opens stating that the gig package was
not found. Not sure whether this also should be 'greyed out" as long as
no dataset is in place.
OMG. This is on Ubuntu, I take it? Ubuntu has been known before for
somehow intercepting and (sorry, there's no other word for it)
fucking about with the menu mechanism for third-party GUI
applications. I can only suppose they've done it again here.
When gretl is in the "no dataset" state only the following menus
should be accessible: File, Tools and Help. All the rest should be
insensitive ("grayed out"). Many if not all items under the other
menus assume there's a dataset in place and it's not at all
suprising that you get a crash if you're somehow able to access them
without a dataset.
Can I ask: has anyone seen what Artur is describing (all menus
accessible even with no data in place) on any OS other than Ubuntu?
Allin