Re: disable default Dynamic Updating Enabled
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- Subject: [mg115982] Re: disable default Dynamic Updating Enabled
- From: Alistair Windsor <alistair.windsor.mailinglists at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:13:58 -0500 (EST)
I don't know how to determine the status of DynamicUpdating but you can change it to the other state using FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["ToggleDynamicUpdating"]] If someone else can explain how to check the status then we are done ;) Yours, Alistair On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:42 AM, metrologuy <takacs at bnl.gov> wrote: > On Jan 25, 6:32 am, "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devr... at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Instead of disabling dynamic updating I'd add SaveDefinitions -> True >> to all your Manipulates. In this way the notebook remembers all the >> necessary definitions to make the Manipulates work right from the >> start. >> >> Cheers -- Sjoerd >> >> On Jan 25, 10:19 am, metrologuy <tak... at bnl.gov> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I have been trying without success to find a way to change the default >> > Dynamic Updating Enabled checkmark setting in the Evaluation menu. I >> > want Mathematica to start up with this item unchecked so it doesn't >> > cause my notebooks to hang up when I open them and scroll down to an >> > Manipulate that has some as-yet undefined content or some leftover >> > content from some earlier save. It is really annoying to have to wait >> > for several minutes until the spinning beachball stops and the >> > notebook reformats. What do I have to do to insure that this menu item >> > gets unchecked when I start up Mathematica? There has got to be some >> > way to change this in the init file. I am running under Mac OS 10.6.6. >> > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Thanks for the advice, Sjoerd. It works. But in a more global context, > how does one modify the default menu selections that are already > checked upon starting Mathematica? There must be some way to modify a > setting in the initialization notebook, but I haven't found how. I > have been looking for some way to uncheck the selection with Options > Inspector in my notebook, but I have not had any success finding the > key. I imagine there should be some way to make the change in a given > notebook that gets saved with the notebook, but I haven't discovered > how to do it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > >