Strange behaviour
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg98060] Strange behaviour
- From: "A. B." <functionalcoatings at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:44:38 -0500 (EST)
Good morning, I am seeing a strange behaviour in Mathematica 5.2 (on a Mac 10.5.6). Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to get help for a command using the question mark: ?Plot the command takes ages to give the result as if the communication with the Kernel was problematic in this case. However, and this is very strange, if I move the cursor or press an arrow key while the application is busy ("Processing..." is displayed on the top of the notebook window), then immediately the output gets displayed. I don't remember if this behaviour was present when I upgraded to Leopard 10.5.6 because I didn't use Mathematica during that period. But I don't recall seeing it when I was using 10.5.2. Is this an incompatibility issue of version 5.2 with Leopard 10.5.6 or is there something corrupted in the preferences for the application on my machine ? Many thanks. A. Berkani