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Re: making something autoexecute before normal execution

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  • Subject: [mg116848] Re: making something autoexecute before normal execution
  • From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 04:35:02 -0500 (EST)
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On 01/03/2011 10:25, David Bailey wrote:


> However, I find that there are a lot of circumstances in which
> Mathematica seems frozen - too frozen to quit the kernel via the menu -
> where it is possible to recover the FrontEnd by killing the kernel
> process some other way. I have an icon to do this using the Windows
> taskkill.exe program. Very occasionally this simply crashes the
> FrontEnd, but I would say it is 95% successful.
>
As an example, execute the following line of code and press the button.

Button["Clear",If[ChoiceDialog["Are you sure?"],Print["Doing it"]]]

The FrontEnd will hang (for no obvious reason!), but you can recover if 
you kill the kernel as described.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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