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Re: Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories

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  • Subject: [mg40787] Re: [mg40760] Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories
  • From: Dr Bob <majort at cox-internet.com>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 03:36:03 -0400 (EDT)
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The same thing happens here in version 4.2.1.

I uninstalled the old version, so I don't know about that one.

I don't like the browser much in general.  (No search capability.)

Bobby


On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:37:49 -0400 (EDT), David Park <djmp at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> I have observed something that seems to be a change in the behavior of 
> the
> Help Browser in Version 4.2.1 from Version 4.1.0. It seems to be a new 
> bug.
>
> What happens is that when the Hide Categories/Show Categories button is
> used, Mathematica sometimes loses its location in the Help Browser and 
> drops
> the information in the 4th panel of the browser.
>
> For example, bring up 4.2.1 and use
>
> Help\Add-Ons\Extras\Programming in Mathematica\Map Constructors\rotation
>
> Four panels of the Help Browser are shown and the location is highlighted 
> in
> each panel.
>
> Now use Hide Categories and then Show Categories. Instead of returning to
> the initial state, now only two levels are highlighted, and all the 
> labels
> in the 4th panel is missing. This is certainly inconvenient.
>
> With Built-in Functions the 4th panel is not used, but Mathematica does 
> drop
> the highlighting of the 3rd panel. That is not so inconvenient because no
> information is lost from the Browser panels.
>
> In Version 4.1.0 this behavior did not (and does not) happen and 
> Mathematica
> always returned to its initial state. Wolfram did not seem able to be 
> able
> to reproduce the problem. Do other people see this behavior? This occurs 
> for
> me in a fresh session and even after rebuilding the Help Index.
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
>
>
>



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Bobby R. Treat



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