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Re: Converting notebooks to use Mathematica Player

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• Subject: [mg82577] Re: [mg82546] Converting notebooks to use Mathematica Player
• From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com

Mathematica Player does not evaluate Initialization cells.  You need to make
sure that any Manipulates are completely self-contained, and do not require
Shift-Enter evaluations in order to work correctly.

The typical way to do this is to add SaveDefinitions->True, which will suck in 
any definitions required to set up the Manipulate into the dynamic evaluation 
that sets up the Manipulate output.  I took your notebook, added 
SaveDefinitions->True to the Manipulate, and ran it through the converter. It 
worked fine for me.  You can find it at...

http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/interactivedeployment/publish/download.jsp?id=2
171978932&filename=2D+Ising+Model+Fixed.nbp

Sincerely,
 
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.


On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:28:50 -0400 (EDT), Steve Luttrell wrote:
>
> Mathematica 6, (2) Uploading the notebook for Mathematica Player online
> conversion (see
> http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/interactivedeployment/publish/), (3)
> Posting this converted notebook online for others to access (a ZIPped
> version is at
> http://www.luttrell.org.uk/notebooks/2D%20Ising%20Model.zip).
>
> To check that things worked on a previously clean machine (i.e. without
> Mathematica 6 installed) today I downloaded and installed Mathematica
> Player onto an old PC (running Windows XP, but not connected to the
> internet), and tried running the above converted notebook. The notebook
> opens and the input cells display OK, but I can't find any way of
> executing the notebook, despite the fact that it proudly announces
> "interactivity enabled" at the top of the notebook, and the output of the
> Manipulate cell appears only as a grey square. On the other hand, if I
> try to run the converted notebook in Mathematica itself then it runs OK.
>
> If there is anyone else out there who has a "clean" machine (i.e.
> Mathematica Player, but not Mathematica 6) could they see what happens
> when
> they try to run the converted notebook in
> http://www.luttrell.org.uk/notebooks/2D%20Ising%20Model.zip? It is
> important
> that this sort of thing should work OK!