[Gretl-devel] observations limit

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> > 
> >> during a teaching session we got the error message "can't edit more than
> >> 1600 observations" (rough re-translation). This was unfortunate, can it
> >> be generalized?
> > 
> > This is a limitation of GTK on MS Windows.  It may be worth 
> > looking at the issue again, but the last time I tried you got a 
> > rubbish window that wouldn't scroll properly if you tried to pack 
> > more than about 1600 rows into a "gtktreeview" on Windows.
> 
> I see. Anything I can do to find out the current status of GTK?

I understand that current GTK contains a workaround that may fix 
this issue.  The trouble is that GTK 2.8 and higher depend on 
cairo and don't run on win9X -- so gretl currently uses the GTK 
2.6 runtime.  I think there are still people using gretl on win98, 
and I'm reluctant to try supporting two Windows packages for 
gretl.

But it's possible that I can hack around this; I'll try some
experimentation.

Allin