UI Hangs
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114480] UI Hangs
- From: brien colwell <xcolwell at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 21:53:35 -0500 (EST)
Hi all, I seem to hang my Mathematica 7 UI frequently with very large symbolic output. For example, using some large matrix, I may mistakenly use a non-integer index (oops). The nonsensical value propagates as a symbol, until it comes flying out into the UI as some very complex thing, where a half-rendered "Notebook Progress -- Formatting Notebook contents" messages hangs for a very long time. Are there settings in the UI to prevent this kind of thing, or a way to cleanly cancel long UI jobs? With long jobs in the kernel, if Kernel->Abort Evaluation doesn't respond, I can simply kill the kernel process, but this kind of recovery doesn't seem possible in the UI (if just for fear of corrupting my notebook). TIA