[Gretl-users] Re: Add DAta -Data entry Gretl2024d
Hi
Here is an example in which a new variable is to be manually entered, and
an entry error is made by insdvertentlyinadvertently typing it into what
was the the preceding entry space .
Command sequence
Add Variable ;Define new variable ;Type new var name <enter>.
2 Columns appear, l.h. col year dates ; r.h. col of empty cells a cursor in
first obsvn cell.
Enter obsv 1,<enter> <enter >
Obsvn 1 visible and cursor blinking in Cell 2 position.
Suppose now an accidental entry is made e.g.
Type in obsvn 2. Press <enter>.and start typing obsvn 3 before the cursor
has been moved to cell3 by the second <enter> command is issued . So
effectively obsvn 3 is being typed into celln2 already containing data.
Press <enter>.
Gretl crashes.
There is nothing unusual regarding my data which comprises of numbers
between 30 and 90 all with 2 decimal places
Hope you can replicate the sequence.
Brian
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 15:42 Cottrell, Allin, <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Am 24.01.2025 um 12:15 schrieb Brian Revell:
>
> There is still an issue with the add data entry function If a double
return does not register (as is possible when rapidly inputting lots of
data quickly) any simple and move the cursor to the next cell ( ie 2
entries are typed inadvertently into the same cell, Gretl crashes. So, if
the user input error occurs during a long series of data all previous
inputs are lost. In addition, if the user has not saved any other operation
outputs or analysis before the data entry error occurs, all that is lost
too. I would humbly suggest that any data error entry in the Add Data
function calls up a data entry error warning rather than crashing Gretl.
>
> Well, as I said before, I tried what you described and there wasn't any
crash. A crash of course is never intended behavior. Do you have a concrete
minimal example with a concrete dataset where this happens, including a
description of which series exactly, in which cell exactly, and so on?
I too have tried using the GUI data editor on Windows 11, and I
couldn't provoke a crash via the sequence Brian describes (or in any
other way). So this is a mystery. It may help if we get a really
exact, detailed account of what led up to a crash.
Allin Cottrell
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