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Re: Initialization problem in a DynamicModule

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• Subject: [mg106671] Re: Initialization problem in a DynamicModule
• From: István <replicatorzed at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:51:58 -0500 (EST)
• References: <hj40pp$sgd$1@smc.vnet.net>

Thank you for the extensive help.
For those who are interested, and could not see the replies I got
(*OFF* I still don't understand fully the posting behaviour of this
interface: I got at least 4 emails, but none of them shows up in the
web interface. If I reply to the emails, then I assume no post will
show up in the group's archive. Therefore I always post using the web
inteface. Is there a better way to do this? *ON*), I will recapitulate
the solution.
The "assign" and "initialize" functions should be defined with
DownValues instead of OwnValues, that is:

assign[]:=(...)    instead of    assign:=(...),

although the fact that simply OwnValues won't work here goes against
my intuition. Also it is not clear (although Ariel shed some light on
it) what is the exact difference between calling the functions assign
[] and initialize[] at the end of the Initialization option or at the
start of DynamicModule, right after defining local variables:

DynamicModule[{assign,x,y},(*dynamic expression to
show*),Initialization:>(assign[]:=(y=x);assign[]a)]
vs.
DynamicModule[{assign,x,y},assign[];(*dynamic expression to
show*),Initialization:>(assign[]:=(y=x))]


Furthermore, Norbert has pointed out, that my model can be further
simlified to this:

DynamicModule[{something},1,Initialization:>(something:=(Print["you
should never see this!"]);)]

returning 1, and the string is printed as well, which effectively
demonstrates, that DynamicModule evaluates even those expressions,
which shouldn't be evaluated. Unfortunately, this example, and the
following one (still from Norbert) completely freezes my Mathematica
7.0 (I have to kill it from TaskManager), so I can't even confirm.
Anyone else has problems evaluating these examples, or you all can run
them as Norbert does?

DynamicModule[{x=False,something,i=0},{
   RadioButton[Dynamic[x,(x=#)&],True],
   RadioButton[Dynamic[x],False],
   Dynamic[i]},
   Initialization:>(something:=(Print["init",i++]))

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  • Re: Re: Initialization problem in a DynamicModule
    • From: Ariel Sepulveda <sepulveda.cuevas@gmail.com>