On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:13 +0200, van Nek wrote:
> Maybe there should be a remark in the documentation, that openmath doesn't work in the
> console. Tcl/Tk is not installed by default.
I think none of us had realized about that problem. I am particularly
guilty in this case (I lecture classes 3 days a week in which I have 20
students all working on Maxima in Windows with very frequent uses of
openmath).
I think that omplotdata never worked in Windows. Nobody noticed it
because in older versions there use to be no console Maxima for Windows.
When the console Maxima started to work in Windows, gnuplot had already
become the default graphics system so the failure of openmath was not
critical for most users.
Rather than writing the remark you propose, I will try to convert
libexec/maxima/5.9.3/omplotdata into a "starpack", as done with
xmaxima.exe and make it available for those who already installed Maxima
5.9.3
If I fail, I will then write the remark you propose.
> You can use xmaxima or wxmaxima. They both include openmath.
>
> OK, that works. But only with a semicolon at the end. Dollar hangs my Maxima in that case,
> I would like to know if you observe this semicolon/dollar problem too.
Yes. That's a known bug in openmath that I have mentioned in this
list but I think I have not entered it into the bug-tracking system.
All graphics commands that use openmath must end with semi-colon.
Now that we are talking about undocumented bugs, I will mention
one in plotdf: if you open several plotdf windows simultaneously,
the direction fields will appear OK, but when you click on any
of them, the trajectory obtained will follow the first field that
was plotted and not the one in the current window. You have to
enter the menu and select "Replot", to get the right trajectories.
Cheers,
Jaime