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/ > > > > -- majort at cox-internet.com Bobby R. Treat
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- Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories
- From: "David Park" <djmp@earthlink.net>
- Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories