I can confirm this (bad, unintended) behavior, but it's limited to the combination of Windows + you're operating in a locale that specifies the decimal comma by default, but choose to use the decimal dot. On Linux it works as intended: both "set force_decpoint on" and "set force_decpoint off" do nothing if the decimal dot is already selected, either because it's native to the locale or the user has registered a preference for the dot. Locale issues are difficult in Windows due to their non-standard legacy specification. However it ought to be possible to fix this (I hope).

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 6:25 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: > > Am 14.08.2024 um 23:49 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: > > I can confirm this (bad, unintended) behavior, but it's limited to the > > combination of Windows + you're operating in a locale that specifies > > the decimal comma by default, but choose to use the decimal dot. On > > Linux it works as intended: both "set force_decpoint on" and "set > > force_decpoint off" do nothing if the decimal dot is already selected, > > either because it's native to the locale or the user has registered a > > preference for the dot. Locale issues are difficult in Windows due to > > their non-standard legacy specification. However it ought to be > > possible to fix this (I hope). > > > Thanks, Allin, that's good to hear, because this special case (not using > the local separator) is probably not super-common. Ah, actually I was wrong about Linux. I tested by setting LANG in the environment and there wasn't a problem, but if I use gretl's built-in language selection mechanism I get the same wrong behavior that I saw on Windows. However, if the problem is not Windows-specific it should be easier to solve.

BTW/OT: With the latest GTK3 snapshot on Windows, I see there's now also a Win-11 theme, and it's looking quite nice. The GTK3 version is getting better and better. I also notice that the menus are a little transparent, which is not really necessary but still feels quite modern. Let's see in the coming weeks if there's anything that remains to be fixed there.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 5:19 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: > Am 20.08.2024 um 10:30 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> BTW/OT: With the latest GTK3 snapshot on Windows, I see there's now >> also a Win-11 theme, and it's looking quite nice. The GTK3 version is >> getting better and better. I also notice that the menus are a little >> transparent, which is not really necessary but still feels quite >> modern. Let's see in the coming weeks if there's anything that remains >> to be fixed there. >> > Argh, again this didn't last long: Under the Win-11 theme the window > frame icons for minimize/maximize/close aren't visible. There's a > reaction when you click there, but you click blindly. This is different > from the Win-10 theme. But I guess there's nothing that gretl can do > anything about. Yes, I noticed the absence of visible controls in the header bar. It seems it should be possible to fix that by editing the css file in the Windows-11 theme, maybe copying across the relevant chunk from the Windows-10 theme, but I haven't tried that yet.