[Gretl-users] close button cosmetics

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, ab.news at laposte.net wrote:

> Allin Cottrell a écrit :
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> >   
> >> It takes the entire width of the window, at the bottom.
> >> Is that really necessary? 
> 
> > I don't think I have any real objection to that. 
> > Anyone else have thoughts on this?
> 
> I agree with Sven! Anyway, the close button on the toolbar seems 
> to do things quite well. Why not to abolish the big button on 
> the bottom?

OK: unless I hear to the contrary, I'll do that.

> Otherwise, there are two small bugs in the "Tools" menu.

> 1. On the "Test calculator" window, when you check the "Assume 
> std dev ..." option and click Ok a pop-up appears saying "Bad 
> PNG header: Got bytes e0 22 0" and it doesn't produce the 
> distribution graph.

Thanks, I've now fixed that.

> 2. On the "Statistical tables" window, try to introduce 0.2 as 
> the right-tail probability for the normal distribution. As I'm 
> using the french version the point obviously doesn't work and I 
> changed it by the comma "," and that's fine. 

OK.

> But, when I choose the distribution graph menu for the normal 
> distribution N(0,1) I got the same error message "Extraneous 
> character '.' in data"???

Sorry, you'll have to explain that a bit more.  With the normal 
distribution graph you have to enter a mean and standard 
deviation, in separate entry boxes.  In both of these boxes, the 
valid decimal character depends on the locale -- unless you have 
chosen (under Preferences) not to use the locale decimal 
character (a smart move, some would say!).

On some quick tests, this seems to work OK.  For example, using
English:

  mean:    10.5
  std dev: 2.4

OK

  mean:    10,5
  std dev:  2,4

Error ("extraneous character")

French:

  mean:    10.5
  std dev: 2.4

Error ("extraneous character")

  mean:    10,5
  std dev:  2,4

OK.

Allin