[Gretl-users] Re: Repeatable Gretl crash
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM Fred Engst <engst.uibe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Allin and the gretl team
I’ve discovered a new situation where gretl crashes.
I’m using the "latest release (Jun 5, 2025)
gretl-2025b-macos-intel.pkg”
When I save a file without navigating throw the file menu, and instead by dragging a file
from the folder where I wanted to save, to the save window as a way to let gretl knows the
folder that I’m saving to, the bottom of the saving window missing the file format,
instead of showing .gdt, so gretl doesn’t know the file format that I’m going to save and
then it crashes.
Thanks for the report. I had no idea that you could use the GTK file
selection dialog in that way (i.e. choose a directory by dragging a
file from it onto the File Save window). I found that the crash you
describe was also reproducible on Linux, and it's now fixed in git.
However, I might add that if the file you drag is valid for the "save
data as" case (that is, has the .gdt or .gdtb extension), you don't
get a crash.
Allin