Re: Instability with Dynamic content
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- Subject: [mg126174] Re: Instability with Dynamic content
- From: leigh pascoe <leigh at evry.inserm.fr>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:40:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Le 23/04/2012 10:40, Alexei Boulbitch a =E9crit : > I have an instability problem with Mathematica 8. The problem can occur > at apparently any time, but usually with a notebook containing Dynamic > content open. It can even occur when browsing through the Help > documentation with a notebook open in the background. > > The problem manifests itself as a disappearance of the small arrow at > the bottom of the scroll bar, so I can no longer scroll down a page. The > position indicator is still present in the slider bar on the right of > the window, but when I try to move it this changes the size of the > window rather than the position in the document. Thus I am no longer > able to view content below that already visible in the window. The > notebook window becomes unresponsive to input. The problem seems to > occur quite often and as I have no other option than to restart > Mathematica it is quite annoying and leads to the loss of any unsaved work. > > Unfortunately it is difficult to give an example as the problem is > intermittent and apparently random. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any thoughts on how to resolve it? > > Thanks > > LP > > In[61]:= $Version > > Out[61]= "8.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (October 6, 2011)" > > Actually 8.0.4.0 MS Windows 32 bit > > > I meet regular the same problem. I reported on this problem the last Tuesday, my post appearing on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 under the subject [mg126111] scrolling GUI problem. > So far I received no reply. > > In my case I did not notice any relation between the dynamic content and the scrolling problem. That is, I met the scrolling problems in documents with interactive dynamics, but also in documents containing no interactive dynamics, but only regular calculations (sometimes - also quite simple) and text. Images may have been present in problematic documents. I cannot exclude that images were present in all documents exhibiting problems, though it does not seem necessary. > > Regards, Alexei > > Alexei BOULBITCH, Dr., habil. > IEE S.A. > ZAE Weiergewan, > 11, rue Edmond Reuter, > L-5326 Contern, LUXEMBOURG > > Office phone : +352-2454-2566 > Office fax: +352-2454-3566 > mobile phone: +49 151 52 40 66 44 > > e-mail: alexei.boulbitch at iee.lu > > > > > Dear Alexi, Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure if the problem is really related to Dynamic content either - I suspect I have encountered the problem earlier on non dynamic notebooks. Until now I just restarted Mathematica when the problem occurred. I am reassured that I am not the only one experiencing this problem and hope that someone has a suggestion as to what can be done to remedy it. LP