wxdraw in Windows 7- SOLVED



Dear Jaime, dear all,

first forgive me, I failed to give enough information. As Rupert 
supposed, under Windows wxMaxima wants to create two temp files in the 
(default) directory "systemroot/users/anybody", one of them called 
"data.gnuplot", the other one "maxout.gnuplot". Changing the 
maxima_userdir- as suggested by Jaime- doesn't affect the draw2d 
internals in any way as it seems, but leaded to hit my target. I have 
checked the two (hidden) files already and found both existing- so I 
decided not to deal with them before because it said "can't create ... 
". Now I created two new files named as described above in the user's 
directory overwriting the existing ones and that was exactly the thing 
making it run! Now I know why all that had happened. I installed an 
older Maxima- version which had known problems of that type some time 
ago by carelessness. I replaced the software by a new version but didn't 
delete both temp- files which must have been corrupted- because they 
can't be seen by default and I forgot about that...
I know that others have the same problem unsolved. I hope this will help 
them, too.

Thanks!

@Wetti, Prof. Haager: for your information only.


Am 29.07.2013 13:15, schrieb Jaime Villate:
> On 29-07-2013 12:05, Jaime Villate wrote:
>> I do not know draw2d's internals but from the error message I guess 
>> the variable maxima_userdir is being used, which can be set to a 
>> different value:
>>
>>  (%i1) maxima_userdir: "C:/Some_directory_name";
>
> Sorry. In my previous message I meant to say "maxima_tempdir" instead 
> of "maxima_userdir"
>
> Jaime
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