Robert Simpson

Several more problems. I now have a much shorter expression (about 160 characters) which hangs wxmaxima as soon as I enter it. I tried using Xmaxima but it has a problem with using the old DOS-style filenames and so gives an error as soon as you start it. I'm now trying the command-line version. So far that seems to be ok. I did try the development version of wxMaxima (29 March) but the package doesn't include the maxima.bat file and when I configure it to point to the one in the release package,...

Thanks. Good advice to use the $. There is definitely something not right though. I minimized the window and then restored it. It's spent the last hour with the spinning wheel and just the occasional flicker every few minutes. What I suspect is happening is that the app isn't filtering spurious paint or size events which results in a lot of unnecessary redrawing. My guess is that the formatting is quite heavyweight as well and the result isn't being cached. wxWidgets is just a thin layer on top of...

Thanks. That seems to work. I think I found the source of the hangs. It only seems to happen when I resize the window after loading the file. Resizing first and then loading the file avoids the problem. However I have the issue you found, namely that the %o132 is not bound to the result. This is surely a bug isn't it?

I have a set of simultaneous equations which, not surprisingly, took many hours for wxmaxima to solve. I saved the result and expected to be able to reload everything and continue. However it hangs when I reload it, possibly because it is re-evaluating everything. Is this expected behaviour and if so, is there a way to prevent it? Example attached.