[Gretl-users] Assorted little bugs

Hi, during a bug-hunting session which will lead to an update of py4gretl shortly I came across the following quirks and issues in gretl (with Win snapshot Apr 17): 1) x = (obs>1991:1) isn't working ("expected ')' but found ':'" or something like that -- this is with quarterly data). 2) In a "new variable" dialog, x=0 produces scalar, which is correct, but having to type series x = 0 in the GUI is suboptimal IMHO. Maybe the desired data type could be set by radio buttons in the dialog? 3) in "edit values" dialog, the view doesn't follow cursor movements (limitation of GTK?) 4) old bug resurfacing (?) : selected variable in window isn't used if edit variable attributes is chosen from menu 5) in edit matrix dialog (opened from session icons window), the name of the edited matrix isn't displayed (but should be) 6) are named lists of variables visible somewhere, like matrices in the session window? 7) Is there any way to start gretl with a console window showing error messages on Windows? (Even if I start gretlw32.exe from a console, gretl starts but the prompt returns "promptly" --pun intended--, and so I don't get any error messages like when I type "gretl" in a Linux console. In my case, I would like to see the the error messages from python that was started by gretl/py4gretl.) 8) It seems there is a problem if named lists start with a number; example from a console session: ? list 4dim 4dim: GesamtDEUUNR deinfl dewreal deprod ? list fourdim fourdim: GesamtDEUUNR deinfl dewreal deprod ? matrix test2 = py4gretl_vecm(1, fourdim, 2, 1, 3, 0, null, null) Befehl 'p4g_call' unbekannt # (that's ok, this error is expected) ? matrix test2 = py4gretl_vecm(1, 4dim, 2, 1, 3, 0, null, null) Das Symbol 'dim' ist nicht definiert Unbekannter Variablenname im Befehl # (but this is bogus, should be the same error as before) That's all ;-) cheers, sven