Is anyone else having problems with wxMaxima on Windows 7 64 bit OS?
Help please,
Rich
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From: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 6:05 PM
To: "Andrej Vodopivec" <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>; "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
Cc: "Maxima Mailing List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Maxima 5.21.1 release problems
> I had to do a system restore because all previous versions of wxMaxima that I had stopped working too. I have not
> reinstalled 5.21.1, I am afraid the same thing will happen again. Now that I have done the system restore all the
> previous versions work fine. I wxMaxima at fault or is it something in the installer that wiped out some settings (or
> whatever).
>
> Rich
>
>
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> From: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:08 PM
> To: "Andrej Vodopivec" <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>; "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Maxima Mailing List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Maxima 5.21.1 release
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed Maxima 5.21.1 and the command line works okay but wxMaxima is very, very slow for some reason. It
>> takes about a 1 and 1/2 minutes to load and start maxima.exe. Usually this happens in seconds. After loading it
>> works okay until I tried wxdraw2d(). wxdraw2d() take about 15 times longer to plot than previous versions.
>>
>> I think there is a problem with wxMaxima on my Windows 7 64 bit system. I don't know if any other OS's have this
>> problem. I have not found a workaround for this.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> (%i1) build_info();
>> Maxima version: 5.21.1
>> Maxima build date: 8:13 4/26/2010
>> Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
>> Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
>> Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
>> (out1)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> From: "Andrej Vodopivec" <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 4:07 AM
>> To: "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Maxima Mailing List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Maxima 5.21.1 release
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've tagged version-5_21_1 in CVS and built rpm's and posted
>>>> the rpms and source code to the Sourceforge file manager.
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/file or thereabouts.
>>>>
>>>> In version some bugs are fixed, including a plotting bug and
>>>> the is(f("x") > 0) => Lisp error bug.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a change log. Sorry, I haven't finished it yet.
>>>>
>>>> If someone can build a Windows installer that would be awesome.
>>>
>>> A windows installer is now available.
>>>
>>> Andrej
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