Thanks very much for the modifications. Cheers Talha
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Allin Cottrell<cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Talha Yalta wrote: > >> Testing gretl on my new Pardus2009 system, I noticed that KDE4 uses >> the Okular program for viewing various files including DVI's. However, >> (after setting okular in the preferences-->Programs menu) LaTeX >> tabulars and equations cannot be viewed because upon opening, okular >> gives the error "cannot open .../.gretl/window" I can see that there >> is a window.dvi file in that location and okular can open it >> correctly. > > Traditional DVI viewers are dedicated, and don't require the > ".dvi" suffix. OK, Okular does require the suffix. Fixed in CVS. > >> Also, when I close a 3D Plot window, the little "gnuplot: type q to >> quit" window stays open. When I close the gnuplot window, the plot >> correctly disappears with the gnuplot window though. >> >> Is there a way to avoid this gnuplot window altogeter? > > I was going to say "No", but that's not entirely true. It depends > on which gnuplot "terminal" type is being used to display the 3d > plot interactively on the X window system. In current gnuplot > there are two possibilities, the x11 term and the wxt term > (WxWidgets). Up till now I've been forcing use of the x11 term, > since when I last checked wxt was too slow and jerky at rotating > the plot. But I see that's now fixed, so I've enabled wxt. > > Anyway, the x11 driver needs a controlling terminal, so we can't > get rid of that little box, but wxt works fine without. Bottom > line: if your gnuplot is sufficiently up to date you won't see > that little terminal window again. > >> Finally, defining a 3D plot, the GUI lets me choose a variable three >> times and then gives the error that it is "duplicated" It would be >> nice if the error message was more accurate and the variable is erased >> from the list once it is chosen for 2 axes. > > The error message is perfectly accurate (triplication nests > duplication) but it's not appropriate. There's no reason you > shouldn't be able to graph a variable against itself in 3 > dimensions if you really want to. Fixed in CVS. > > Allin. > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > -- “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --
