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Re: Manipulate in HelpBrowser: Bug

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg88464] Re: Manipulate in HelpBrowser: Bug
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 06:38:20 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <fvmmtn$8gk$1@smc.vnet.net>

There are bugs in the older Help Browser such that dynamic displays often 
don't work. (There were worst problems in Version 5.2 with some animations 
that were generated by package code.) In Version 6 the result is that 
Manipulate and Animate expressions sometimes (but not always) just don't 
operate, i.e., the controls don't work.

There are two fixes. One is to copy the output cell from the Help Browser 
window into a regular Mathematica notebook. Without any further evaluation 
it should then work properly. A second fix is to append CreateDialog@ to the 
Manipulate or Animate statement and evaluate. This brings it up in an 
outside window and again it will work properly.

-- 
David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/


"Markus Huber" <mhla at gmx.at> wrote in message 
news:fvmmtn$8gk$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to use the Manipulate command in some of my old help files,
> i.e. HelpBrowser and not DocumentationCenter.
> Thereby I noticed the following weird behavior:
>
> Open the HB with
> FrontEndTokenExecute["HelpDialog"].
>
> Evaluate
> Manipulate[Plot[Sin[k x], {x, 0, 1}], {k, 1, 2}].
>
> It won't behave properly when moving the slider. Now strange is that
> 1.) Animate works
> 2.) Copying the output cell and pasting it again works.
>
> I used M6 in Windows, on Mac and Linux everything worked as expected.
>
> Can anyone explain this behavior or (even better) knows a (simple)
> workaround. My best idea would be to use Animate instead.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Markus Huber
>