Re: Sending an interrupt to the frontend?
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- From: W Craig Carter <ccarter at MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Yikes. As the original poster, I'd like to clarify that I was looking for a way to send an interrupt to the front-end *from the operating system*. I think mathematica's behavior is understandable when the front end receives a request to dynamically update a result that is so large that takes a long time to format. This is nearly always triggered by a mistake that I have made. I was looking for a work-around; not a fix to Mathematica. Ralph Draftman send a nice way to catch interrupts with an Internal`AddHandler. W Craig Carter Professor of Materials Science, MIT > > It is clear that one can easily and quickly run the frontend irresponsive. > However, in most cases I know, this is actually due to bad programming > (from Mathematica's point of view) rather than an instable product. > > One typical reason is that a command returns symbolic results where the > programmer actually expected only numerical stuff, and quickly things get completely out of hand. But how should Mathematica know that all this was not intended? > >>> >> >
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- From: Michael Weyrauch <michael.weyrauch@gmx.de>
- Re: Sending an interrupt to the frontend?