Re: Delete All Output (bug)
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- Subject: [mg30584] Re: Delete All Output (bug)
- From: Adam Smith<adam.smith at hillsdale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:51:30 -0400 (EDT)
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If you want to select all the graphics produced in a notebook, you hold down the Alt key and then click on any graphic output cell (works on both Mac and Windows - don't know about other systems). Every graphic is then selected and you can simply delete them. I hope this does what you want. I did not really understand what you meant by "without re-running all these plots while I'm testing the changes". I would think, once you make the changes you would want the plots to see the effect of the changes. Adam Smith In article <9mi188$52q$1 at smc.vnet.net>, aes says... > >I have a notebook that defines a number of modules, followed by a "data >input cell" which "calls" these modules repeatedly, e.g. this Input cell >might have 20 lines of the form > > R1=0.8; R2=09; plotReflectionProfile; > R1=0.8; R2=09; plotPhaseProfile; > >that make 20 different plots for different values of R1 and R2. > >Suppose this notebook has been run, creating the 20 plots; and I want to >make some changes and tests, maybe run just one other value, without >re-running all these plots while I'm testing the changes. Easy way to >disable the data cell is to convert its Format temporarily to Text >instead of Input. > >If you do this, and then later select Delete All Output from the Kernel >menu, the 20 plots are *not* deleted. > >I argue, this is, if not a bug, an undesirable "gotcha" in the Mathematica >interface. Sure, I could delete the plots *before* changing the Input >cell's format (or by hand selecting all 20 of them and doing a ctrl-X). > >But when I change the Input cell's format, I haven't (at least >explicitly) changed any of the characteristics of the graphics cells >that follow this cell. If Delete All Output would have deleted those >cells before, it should delete them now -- seems like a matter of >elementary consistency. > >(This is Mac PB G3, OS 8.6, Mathematica 4.1.) >