Re: [Gretl-users] new things in CVS
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Talha Yalta wrote:
I have tested the updates and everything seems to work pretty
well. I have updated the tr.po file also. Here are a few
suggestions for improvement:
1)- Ability to set more colors is great. What would be better is
a small color button for each line, presumably next to the "line
width" item.
That would misrepresent the current situation. You can set colors
for the successive "line types" but you can't set arbitrary
per-lines colors for each individual graph. That would be nice, I
suppose, but it would require a lot more work.
2)- Also would be neat is a "remove" button, next to the
"line
width" as well.
Yes. In current CVS you can blank out the "formula" and the line
will not be shown.
3)- Some method to add vertical lines would be nice for
completeness.
You can do that if you figure out the gnuplot command language.
Maybe it could be added in the GUI at some point.
5)- The ability to define a horizontal range for every line
would make gretl's gnoplot facility very very powerful, (but
dashed lines comes first)
Via gnuplot commands you can add arbitrary lines/vectors to a
graph, starting and ending wherever you like. Adding this option
to the gretl GUI would be challenging.
6)- Using the Gujarati Table_1.3.gdt, I again plot Canada versus
France to see that I can now add horizontal lines such as y=1.3,
but I cannot add any legends on this particular plot. (well, I
can edit the legends fields but the contents don't show up)
Go to the "Main" tab in the graph editor and choose a location
other than "none" for the "key position".
7)- Adding line functionality doesn't work with the distribution
graphs.
True; I've now removed that option for distribution graphs.
8)- Trying to remove or modify the legend in distribution graphs
creates an error message. The error exists even if the legend is
restored to its previous value, and closing the plot control
window and reopening it also doesn't get rid of the error,
rendering the plot completely uneditable.
This I can't replicate: can you give a specific example?
9)- The newly added filter, which converts ',' to '.'
in
formulas when the locale decimal character is ',' seems to work
OK but now I can have two formulas such as y=1.3 and y=2,3
together in the same window. This is inconsistent...
True. The best solution here is to ban the use of ',' as decimal
separator (i.e. to remove the filter I put in place). I've added
a comment to the context help stating that you must use '.' as
decimal separator in gnuplot formulae.
Allin.