[Gretl-users] Re: Some minor bugs, perhaps.
On Wed, 1 May 2019, Fred Engst wrote:
Since it seems that the list is a bit quit today, I thought I
should send something for Allin to work on. :)
Over time, I have noticed a few items that I think might be bugs
of gretl.
Ok, here's the scorecard so far.
1. window list issue.
Still under consideration.
2. time series data with very long names.
That is, insane identifiers! Under consideration.
3. lagged variable might not show in the main window.
Not examined yet. Probably linked with point 2?
4. can’t see command log whenever I’m working on .gretl files
Point taken. Should now be fixed, I think.
5. "Show main statistics" vs. "Show full
statistics" option dialog
often were hidden behind the icon window when one ask for the
summary statistics.
Should be fixed. The "z-order" (in front/behind) of GTK windows
"just works" on Linux but doesn't always work right on Mac or
Windows. I've made an attempt to force this in the right direction
for the option dialog in question.
6. If a model was saved with a name that contains “&”, in the
icon
view, once the session is saved and then if one tries to open that
session, the model with name that contains “&” con’t be recovered.
Either one can’t save a model with names that contains “&”, or
gretl should be able to recover that model, it seems.
Definitely fixed. We were "escaping" XML-special characters such as
"&" (&) in some contexts, but not all. It's now done for model
names. (But this will work only for newly saved session files; for
existing *.gretl files with ampersand in model names the damage is
done, I'm afraid.)
Allin