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Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories

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• Subject: [mg40760] Change in Help Browser Behavior with HideCategories/Show Categories
• From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have observed something that seems to be a change in the behavior of the
Help Browser in Version 4.2.1 from Version 4.1.0. It seems to be a new bug.

What happens is that when the Hide Categories/Show Categories button is
used, Mathematica sometimes loses its location in the Help Browser and drops
the information in the 4th panel of the browser.

For example, bring up 4.2.1 and use

Help\Add-Ons\Extras\Programming in Mathematica\Map Constructors\rotation

Four panels of the Help Browser are shown and the location is highlighted in
each panel.

Now use Hide Categories and then Show Categories. Instead of returning to
the initial state, now only two levels are highlighted, and all the labels
in the 4th panel is missing. This is certainly inconvenient.

With Built-in Functions the 4th panel is not used, but Mathematica does drop
the highlighting of the 3rd panel. That is not so inconvenient because no
information is lost from the Browser panels.

In Version 4.1.0 this behavior did not (and does not) happen and Mathematica
always returned to its initial state. Wolfram did not seem able to be able
to reproduce the problem. Do other people see this behavior? This occurs for
me in a fresh session and even after rebuilding the Help Index.

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

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