[Gretl-users] recent developments

Hello all, Here's an update on progress towards gretl 1.6.0. Those of you who build gretl from CVS, or make a habit of downloading the latest Windows snapshot, may be aware of these things already, but... * The reorganization and polishing of the GUI menus is now completed, so far as I am concerned. If anyone has strenuous objections to the way things stand, please say so now. * Also along the lines of GUI polish, I recently reorganized the buttons at the bottom of GUI windows, at least those that have "standard" buttons (with icons). I'm afraid this may at first disorient people who were familiar with the old setup (me included!), but the pattern is consistent with Gnumeric, which I presume is in turn consistent with the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines. In brief, the rightmost button is now the "normal completion of task" button, usually "OK" but sometimes "Close". If a Help item is present, it's always the leftmost button. In between are things like "Cancel" and "Apply". Up till now, "OK" and "Cancel" have been inverted in gretl, relative to this scheme. * Time series filters: We now have moving average (centered or not, as you prefer), exponential moving average, Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King available in the GUI for time series data, under /Variable/Filters. This knocks off another "expert" item that was previously available only in command-line mode. Thanks to Tadeusz Kufel for helpful suggestions on the moving average option. * The GUI apparatus for building, editing and opening function packages has been redesigned and, I think, improved. However, it still has to be classed as "experimental". I would like to get this working really well, because I think gretl's scripting capacity is now at the point where user-contributed functions can have a real impact. But I'm resigned to the fact that this probably won't be finalized for 1.6.0. It's complicated. Allin.