Re: Displaying graphics with the MathKernel in OS X
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg82901] Re: Displaying graphics with the MathKernel in OS X
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 05:05:19 -0500 (EST)
- References: <fgenq7$g2d$1@smc.vnet.net>
kevin_jazz wrote:
> I'd like to use Mathematica the "old fashion" way by using the
> MathKernel with the notebook.
If you don't use the front end, then you can't use notebooks.
> However, I'd like to be able to display
> graphics. This is what I've done:
>
You can't expect graphics to be displayed without a GUI.
> isengard:/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS kbowman$ ./
> MathKernel
> Mathematica 6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
> Copyright 1988-2007 Wolfram Research, Inc.
>
> In[1]:= Plot[Sin[x],{x,1,3}]
>
> Out[1]= -Graphics-
>
> In[2]:= Exit[]
> isengard:/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS kbowman$
>
> However, the Graphics are not displayed in a window.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do that?
>
<<Terminal`
Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi}
or write your own $DisplayFunction that uses some other program to
display exported graphics.
--
Szabolcs