Hi Allin,
this is little weird.

Suppose we run huge Monte Carlo lasting hundreds of minutes. What would 
be nice: waitbar. I know, this is plastic-fantastic feature completely 
unnecessary. But what we would have instead of:

1. When we could decide if we run command line version (doesn't matter 
Unix-like or MS) we would just print progress (10%, 20%,...) in black 
window. And it should be enough for any user.
2. But in GUI maybe we would plot something like funcerr (just with 
information) which doesn't interrupt loop.

Why I'm talking about it. Gretl (Yes!) is used by non-econometricians 
for econometric analysis. Many of them have no knowledge about 
programming, numerical methods, convergence and so on and if program run 
very, very long they sometimes suppose something went wrong (Windows 
(not Gretl ;)) hang-up for instance). Such solution would encourage them 
for patience... I think ;)

I don't know anybody else agree with it, but IMHO it would be useful.

Regards,
Marcin

P. S. After last foreign-affairs-semantic-like problems I don't know if 
we get visas for Oklahoma ;)




W dniu 03.06.2012 17:30, Allin Cottrell pisze:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Marcin Błażejowski wrote:
>
>> Is there any way of decide (within a script) if we run gretl_x11 or 
>> gretlcli mode? Any accesor, function or sth...?
>
> Not really. On Linux you could probably do something clever with 
> gretl's getenv() function and/or the $(...) mechanism for running 
> shell commands and capturing the output, but even if possible it 
> wouldn't be portable.
>
> We could add a $gui accessor if there's demand for it.
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
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GG# 203127

Hi Allin,
this is little weird.

Suppose we run huge Monte Carlo lasting hundreds of minutes. What would be nice: waitbar. I know, this is plastic-fantastic feature completely unnecessary. But what we would have instead of:

1. When we could decide if we run command line version (doesn't matter Unix-like or MS) we would just print progress (10%, 20%,...) in black window. And it should be enough for any user.
2. But in GUI maybe we would plot something like funcerr (just with information) which doesn't interrupt loop.

Why I'm talking about it. Gretl (Yes!) is used by non-econometricians for econometric analysis. Many of them have no knowledge about programming, numerical methods, convergence and so on and if program run very, very long they sometimes suppose something went wrong (Windows (not Gretl ;)) hang-up for instance). Such solution would encourage them for patience... I think ;)

I don't know anybody else agree with it, but IMHO it would be useful.

Regards,
Marcin

P. S. After last foreign-affairs-semantic-like problems I don't know if we get visas for Oklahoma ;)

 


W dniu 03.06.2012 17:30, Allin Cottrell pisze:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Marcin Błażejowski wrote:

Is there any way of decide (within a script) if we run gretl_x11 or gretlcli mode? Any accesor, function or sth...?

Not really. On Linux you could probably do something clever with gretl's getenv() function and/or the $(...) mechanism for running shell commands and capturing the output, but even if possible it wouldn't be portable.

We could add a $gui accessor if there's demand for it.

Allin Cottrell


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