Hi, I'm encountering two (and a half) problems with setting the descriptive label of a series via 'setinfo'. This happens when I use this command inside a function package which returns the resulting series. 1 - This first problem I cannot reproduce with a minimal function example; I'm suspecting it might depend on being wrapped inside a package. The problem is that the descriptive label of a series is _not_ overwritten with a new content when the series itself is replaced by the return value of the package. 1b - Another thing that somehow seems to depend on doing it inside a package: Doing 'setinfo myseries --description="@mylabel"' for an existing string variable 'mylabel' just yields the literal "mylabel" as description.

2 - The --description option to 'setinfo' apparently does not allow a string variable as input. Doing --description=s for an existing string s just gives the literal "s" as the label.

Am 14.05.20 um 02:47 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sun, 10 May 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >> 1 - This first problem I cannot reproduce with a minimal function >> example; I'm suspecting it might depend on being wrapped inside a >> package. The problem is that the descriptive label of a series is _not_ >> overwritten with a new content when the series itself is replaced by the >> return value of the package.

>> 1b - Another thing that somehow seems to depend on doing it inside a >> package: Doing 'setinfo myseries --description="@mylabel"' for an >> existing string variable 'mylabel' just yields the literal "mylabel" as >> description.

> However, there is a "hidden" mechanism available which should probably > be tested more, perhaps modified, and documented: you use eval() in > this content. So for example this should work: > > string s = "whatever" > setinfo some_series --description=eval(s) Good to know, I can try that.

> Some new evidence here: When going to "edit attributes" of that modified > series (via right-click) the new assigned descriptive label is shown > alright in the attribute window. So it seems it's just the main window > where the variable's description isn't updated. > > If you want to try for yourself you can use the version of the > series_calculator package I just uploaded to the staging area: (1) Run > the sample script, then (2) execute the package in the GUI and specify > "output" as the return series while leaving the other arguments at > defaults. Expected: the descriptive label gets overwritten with > something not containing sin or cos, but in reality nothing visible > happens. > Can someone verify this behavior/bug? Should I enter it in the bug tracker?

On Fri, 29 May 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >>> Some new evidence here: When going to "edit attributes" of that >>> modified >>> series (via right-click) the new assigned descriptive label is shown >>> alright in the attribute window. So it seems it's just the main window >>> where the variable's description isn't updated. >>> >>> If you want to try for yourself you can use the version of the >>> series_calculator package I just uploaded to the staging area: (1) Run >>> the sample script, then (2) execute the package in the GUI and specify >>> "output" as the return series while leaving the other arguments at >>> defaults. Expected: the descriptive label gets overwritten with >>> something not containing sin or cos, but in reality nothing visible >>> happens. >>> >> Can someone verify this behavior/bug? Should I enter it in the bug >> tracker? > > Nothing visible, no. But if you go to "Edit attributes" for the > redefined "output" series (or execute "labels" in he console) you'll > see that its description has in fact changed, it's just that the main > window display is not getting synced. I'll try to find what signal is > missing. This is now fixed in git and snapshots.