Re: Player Pro Limitations
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg101843] Re: Player Pro Limitations
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:14:25 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <Doi8m.5868$ze1.3058@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
Andrew J Fortune wrote: > Hi all, > > I have started using Player Pro. I am a hobbyist, and was led to believe > that this was an inexpensive alternative to the full Mathematica (PS I > can't purchase Home Edition, as I live in Australia). > > After hours of playing with this product, I still have many unanswered > questions. They are as follows, and I would be glad if someone could > enlighten me on these: > > (1) Is there any documentation, "getting started" guides or tutorials > that are SPECIFIC to Player Pro ?? Unfortunately, the only help option > from the Help menu dumps you straight into the full Mathematica > documentation. This is unhelpful. > > (2) The comparison table for Mathematica vs Player Pro vs Player states > that, amongst other things, in Player Pro you have the following > capabilities that are not available in Player (i) Dynamic capabilities > other than from Manipulates; (ii) Keyboard entry to text fields; and > (iii) Dynamic document creation. Can someone provide me with examples of > these, as blowed if I can find them ?? > > (3) If you can't create and edit notebooks in Player Pro, then why is > there an Evaluate menu ? .... Furthermore, why is there a "Replace" > option on the Find dialog ? (PS I tried using these, and they seemed to > be totally crippled). > > (4) As a hobbyist, I am not interested in export and deployment of > Mathematica applications and notebooks. Seems to me that if you take > away these features away from Player Pro, you end up with something very > closely resembling the free Player. Is that a fair comment ? (....if it > is, then I am pretty p*ssed off, as it means that I have been misled). > > (5) Is it also a fair comment to say that Player Pro doesn't allow you > anything in the way of mathematical creativity, i.e. its someone else's > creation that you plug in to Player Pro, and then export/deploy ? > > Thanks one and all for your help. Hope I can get some mileage out of > this product. > > regards, > Andrew Fortune, > Melbourne, > Australia I am afraid you have been badly mislead. PlayerPro is meant as a platform on which to run code developed on a full Mathematica - it essentially enables developers to sell or give code to others, rather as they can if they write C or Java code. It might be worth contacting Wolfram Australia to see if there is some way to purchase the home edition. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk