Re: [Gretl-users] bug-hunting time

Hello Allin, This is not actually a bug but may be you'll find it useful to point out. I'm currenty handling a large census database and: 1. I observed some limitations through the GUI: a. adding new observations is limited to 100 00 obs; b. creating a new data set is limited to 1 000 000 obs; Otherwise, there's no limits to the "addobs" and "nulldata" commands in the CLI 2. Plotting the frequency distribution of a constant series X (GUI) pops up a very clear error message " 'X' is a constant". Instead, the "freq" command (CLI) ends up with 3 different error messages not so easy to figure out. In the same run, the boxplot command has the same behavior (GUI-CLI) although the error message should perhaps, be more intuitive (like frequency's "'X' is a constant" for example instead of "C:\Program Files\gretl\wgnuplot.exe" "C:\Users\Artur\AppData\Roaming\gretl\gpttmp.i03604": exit code 1"). 3. While executing commands in the CLI - specially loop iterations - gretl seems to shut down but actually it doesn't. Would be possible to show something like a progress bar (in fact, we used to have a stuff like that in the script window) just to tell the user that something is still going on? Cheers, artur