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@wfu.edu> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber@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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