[Gretl-devel] environment variables in gretl script

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> - could not open the pdf user guide, error says application not 
> found -- which application is gretl trying to find?

On Windows, gretl just tells the OS to open the PDF file.  So 
whatever is the default PDF viewer.

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", fname, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);

where "fname" is the name of the PDF file.

> - Admin privileges are needed to install, which is 
> understandable. But it is a bit strange that the installer wants 
> the _one_ location where "personal data files" are stored. It 
> seems that that's the directory which then is written to the 
> preferences as the gretl user directory, but for _every_ user?

You mean you can have more than one user on Windows? ;-)  I'll 
have to look into that.

> - (not windows-specific:) It seems impossible to load packaged 
> function files (.gfn) into gretl from somewhere on the harddisk. 
> This is a bit awkward (if I'm not missing something).

No, I don't think you're missing anything there.  We could add a 
"free range" file open box for .gfn files.

Allin.