Re: [Gretl-devel] observations limit
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> during a teaching session we got the error message "can't edit more
than
>> 1600 observations" (rough re-translation). This was unfortunate, can it
>> be generalized?
>
> This is a limitation of GTK on MS Windows. It may be worth
> looking at the issue again, but the last time I tried you got a
> rubbish window that wouldn't scroll properly if you tried to pack
> more than about 1600 rows into a "gtktreeview" on Windows.
I see. Anything I can do to find out the current status of GTK?
I understand that current GTK contains a workaround that may fix
this issue. The trouble is that GTK 2.8 and higher depend on
cairo and don't run on win9X -- so gretl currently uses the GTK
2.6 runtime. I think there are still people using gretl on win98,
and I'm reluctant to try supporting two Windows packages for
gretl.
But it's possible that I can hack around this; I'll try some
experimentation.
Allin