Thank you Martin. I have to admit that it is a bit strange and I would hardly guessed that. Sorry, but I did not quite understand why this is necessary in SMath now but not in wxMaxima for instance (see the picture). Therefore, due to the changes in Maxima plugin this example - distrib-maxima is outdated and does not work anymore.

Regards,
Radovan

Edited by user 28 May 2014 16:42:18(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

You are right about different in Maxima versions - but I am still puzzled. In my example I was using both SMath Desktop (Maxima 5.31.1-1) and SMath Portable (Maxima 53.3.0) and the behavior was the same in Smath - see the picture and the first line at the top Maxima(load( distrib )) distrib-float previous post. You are right that my wxMaxima was 5.31.1-1 - this post regularly installed on my office machine.

I tried your previous example at my home computer in wxMaxima (Maxima 53.3.0) and and it is the same problem with SMath and wxMaxima regarding floats and distrib package.

A bit confusing, . I'll check it tomorrow once more - I might made a mistake.

Regards,
Radovan
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I can not simply believe it . It happened again. If someone else would have had this problem, that would be the first thing I would suggest.

Edited by user 28 May 2014 18:46:31(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thank you all

Martin, what did you mean by "- Image region with external edit capability"? Just curious.

Regards,
Radovan

Ah yes, I remembered now. Thank you Davide .

Regards,
Radovan

The Maxima plugin has come to a new level of usability:

A ready-to-use portable version including a full Maxima installation is available for download. The download is approx. 60 MB, extracted you get 160 MB, mainly due to Maxima, but also due to the documentation.

Basically, you can unzip the file wherever you want and launch SMathStudio_Desktop.exe.

More fun is gained if you link file extensions .sm to SMathStudio_Desktop.exe and png files to some image editor, say, Paint.

The attached screenshot is from welcome.sm in the root directory of the distribution.

There is a new Image Region included.

Try Insert> Image. You get an empty region with some text informing you about the options:

• Double click to launch the image editor with an empty image - that's how you can create illustrations on the fly
  
• Import an existing image via context menu
  
• Specify a file name in the placeholder to dynamically display that file
  
• Specify a matrix to dynamically display it's contents (just like with the original image region by uni

You can dynamically (with the mouse) resize the region and reset it to the original size via context menu.
The expression in the placeholder is evaluated by the region, thus you can place any commands generating file names or matrices just there. And hide the whole lot if you wish. No need for intermediate storage variables any more.

The image region is not yet in the online gallery of the extension manager. Kay and uni have to find a way how we can publish the region without irritating the user by two image regions.

When testing the distribution on my wife's notebook, I had to reset the screen font scaling to 100% in order to not spoil the formatting of the interactive handbook.

Please report any issue.

The ImageRegion as contained in the portable SMath with Maxima distribution seems to occasionally loose data.

By whatever reason, the region looses contact to the temporary image file. This happened to me three time just when I tried to save the file. Then I got an error message saying that the file does not exist.

In that case the only chance to keep your image is to make a screenshot, delete the region, create a new one, open in the editor and paste the screenshot.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we try to fix that.

The problem is that multiple instances of SMath use the same scratch dir for images. When one of the instances is closed, then this dir is cleaned up.

To be safe, just run a single instance (multiple open documents are ok).

Thanks for reporting the problem.

I can reproduce the problem with SMath 0.97.5301 and Maxima 5.33.0
However, I do not get a solution in Maxima (may be I did not wait long enough).

The handling of hanging maxima processes is poor in the plugin. I'll add the example to the bug tracking system.

You want the function Assign()

Very interesting

Of course, it is a bit unstable at the moment. Sometimes strange things happen. The part of the notebook moves into the Draw2D(), Draw3D() region and scrolling is inside that region. SMath crashes then. I can not reproduce this at the moment, sorry.

Regards,
Radovan