Same link for the linux version?

The plugin Hyperlink Region fails to install in the portable version (linux version + portable.version file).
The remove (dustbin) button does not work (plugin remains in the list)

The indicated version is different from the one offered in the installed SMath (6011.17119)

Edit: Also no success with the following plugins in the portable version (no problems in the installer version)

SQLite
Text Region Utilities

Edited by user 10 September 2016 21:14:10(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thank you Andrey. Your response reminded me that I simply forgot to activate the beta versions in the online gallery. This might have lead to different experiences in the update manager between the installer version (where beta versions were activated) and the portable version.

I didn't mess around with the hyperlink region but manually exchanged the contents of the Maxima plugin directory for test purposes.

I'll do a second install of the portable version and see if I get a clean set of plug-ins with the betas activated.

Edit: Test results for a new installation.
- download linux version
- add empty portable.region file
- open SMath
- Tools> Plugins: Online gallery, unselect "exclude beta versions"
Install plugins in the following order:
Checkbox region
Checkbox list region
Combobox region
Combobox list region
Conditional Expression...
CF label
Currency units
Custom functions
Custom glyphs
Data exchange
Development tools
DotNumerics
Excel files
Excel IO
FFTpack
Gnu Scientific lib
GPC Wrapper
Hyperlink region
Image region
Mathcad file access
Maxima (fail)
Modeller
Nonlinear Solvers
Numeric UD
Octave
ODE Solvers
PDF files
Pie chart region
Slider region
Snapshot region
SQLite (fail)
Statistical tools
Text region utilities (fail)
Writer region
XLSX import/export
X-Y plot region

Close SMath and restart:

Message: Plugins failed to start:
Maxima
SQLite

Close the dialog

Check for Text region utilities -> Insert> Text region utilities> add.. Dialog works.
No idea why the fail message appeared upon installation.
In the extension manager it is green now.

Next action: Test Maxima Plugin

- tools> Plugins> Interactive books> online gallery, download Interactive SMath Handbook, check use by default. Press "open"
- Launch interactive handbook: [?] Plugins, in plugins page follow link to plugin dir (green button next to plugin name (Maxima)
- Close SMath (otherwise you can't remove the Maxima dll in the plugin dir)
- Exchange contents of the single subdirectory by the contents of SVN 2175 version (see SS 2347
- Start SMath

Main restrictions of this Maxima version: No replacement of sum(4), det(), int(4) and diff(2) and diff(3) due to changed policy in SMath. The remainder seems to work more or less. Thanks to Davide for fixing compatibility issues!

Edited by user 12 September 2016 09:43:13(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

tomtit,

It is an issue of cases(..) function defined in Custom Functions plug-in. Issue is not related to specific version of the program.
F.e. you can try to use if(..) instead of cases(..) to see how it should really behave.

Best regards.

The problem is that a7 is not defined , does not exist in the matrix.

Best Regards

Carlos

Thanks!! my regards






Ricardo Suarez Caballero
Director Formativo en IIEMD.com - Marketing Digital

Thanks for the feedback. What do you mean is a mess?

The process of getting a portable version (installation) or the result/user experience?

Once the image region is fixed and the interactive handbook updated, I can make a new portable version for download. Then getting the distribution would be easy.

If the result is a mess - what could be improved?

As to the tracking of the functions:
- An important improvement was that the dynamic assistant now shows the name of the plugin, where the function is defined. That helps a lot in searching for documentation or for reporting bugs.
- Every plugin developer can specify, what explanation the dynamic assistant shows. Some care more about this, some care less. Perhaps you can't expect uni to write custom strings for all the bulk function libs, which he wrote interfaces for.
- Davide has started to contribute pages on his plugins for the interactive handbook, that will also improve the access to documentation.

For me, a weak point (and a nightmare for teaching) of SMath is the complex logic of user function definition. Davide's handbook in the extension manager would be helpful, if I was capable to memorize all the side effects and name space particularities, which he really tried hard to explain. Would be nice if we could just get along without all these underscores, apostrophes, hashmarks and the like, which are there just to prevent them from eventually coinciding with outer space names...
I still remember how upset I was when I realized, that names of dummy parameters in function definitions matter! Took me almost as long as to find out how to input 1..3