Re: [Gretl-users] some small bugs
Here are a few more:
6- When I have more than 41 tables I cannot add the 42nd and above to
the model table by dragging and dropping since the model table icon is
invisible and the icon window doesn't scroll while the mouse button is
pressed (due to dragging)
7- Sessions are not saved as a single compressed file. I have a, say,
session1.gretl file plus a session1 directory with the data, an xml
file, and all the model files.
8- What is worse, when I "save as" a new session, say session2, I get
a session2.gretl file, however, the old session1 directory is now
replaced with a session2 directory with all the files lost.
9- Suggestion: Being able to create a model table with more models
(more than 6, maybe 8) would be nice to have.
10- Suggestion: Whoever I show gretl to, they are simply blown away by
the icon view concept. How models and graphs can be saved as icons for
future reference, how they can easily be combined and exported to
LaTeX, the little utilities... This is some serious innovation IMO.
However, the default view doesn't do the program justice.
IMHO the UI can be set up such that there is one main gretl window
which will serve as a workspace. Both, the current gretl window (which
can be renamed as the analysis window) and the icon view can be opened
by default as separate windows within this work space. Furthermore,
some of the menus of the analysis window such as file, view, tools,
and help can be migrated to the new main window while data, add,
sample, variable, model menus are retained in the the analysis window.
This will allow for a good foundation to add new features for the
future versions including things like matrix toolbars or various
specialized palettes.
Finally, gretl is already much further away in terms of the UI and the
ease of use compared to any statistical package out there including
eviews. Still, IMHO Adobe's Photoshop can serve as a good model on how
to improve it. I think Photoshop is a great example to show how a very
large number of complex operations with lots of individual options can
be done using a clever graphical user interface.
Anyway, thanks for the already great program...
Cheers
Talha
On 4/4/07, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Talha Yalta wrote:
> 1- When trying to select several variables to display summary
> statistics, I hold the ctrl button and start selecting individual
> variables. Now, while pressing the left mouse button (or while having
> it pressed) on a new variable, if I move the mouse pointer even by a
> pixel, the whole previous selection is gone. The only way to select
> multiple (not adjacent) variables is to make sure the mouse pointer
> does not move while the left mouse button is pressed.
This is tricky. I have noticed myself that you have to be very
careful doing Ctrl-click for multiple selection. I'll take
another look at it, but this may be the price we pay for a
relatively unusual feature that I find useful, namely the ability
to define a (contiguous) multiple selection simply by dragging or
"swiping" the mouse across the variables. The problem is that
movement of the mouse is taken as the start of a drag selection.
There may be a way to fine-tune this.
> 2- From the sample menu, selecting restrict based on criterion and
> entering, for example, VALUE="" crashes the program (happens with
"")
Now fixed.
> 3- Pressing q (not Q) while renaming a model or graph closes the icon view.
Fixed.
>
> 4- Selecting "arrange icons" deletes the custom names given to models
> returning back to Model1, Model2 etc. Similarly, model names are not
> saved after saving a session so that I see Model1, Model2 etc.
> However, double clicking a model, I can see the custom name in the
> first row (so it was not completely lost).
Fixed.
Allin.
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