Questions tagged [message-coding]
Questions about coding the generation of Messages and about the Message subsystem itself.
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Is it possible to turn off all messages for a specific mathematica file?
I have a general question.
I have a big Mathematica file, which sometimes comes with some messages.
Is it possible to turn off all messages forever in this notebook/file?
BR
Mads
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Restore output to notebook
While playing around in settings, I believe I did something to cause all output to be printed to a pop up window. How do I restore the output to the notebook where the evaluation occurs? In options ...
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Q: How to manage notebook crashes, “In a previous session”, and memory consumption?
I worked in a notebook. Something went wrong. I do not know what or why. The notebook did not react anymore and closed.
After it, I try to open the same notebook. Then the next text appears:
"The ...
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Find errors in collapsed notebook
I usually keep my notebooks collapsed to make understanding what's going on easier. The problem is that if there's an execution error, I have to expand everything in order to even know that there was ...
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Quiet Messages with arguments
I have some global options that determine which messages are shown and which are not, e.g.
$MessagesShown = {Power::infy};
$MessagesNotShown = All;
Now the first ...
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customisable error checking, message handling code
I have an iterated computation running in a while loop, which is bound to fail at some point, at which point I want it to stop, e.g.
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Building a function that uses $Assumptions and works like Simplify, FunctionExpand, etc
I want to write a function MySimplify (like built-in Simplify) that takes a second argument to specify additional ...
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How to produce an error message for function with a wrong parameter and default values for other parameter
Consider this function
w[x_Integer: 2, y__List : {1, 2}, z_String: "X"] := {x y, z}
w[4]
{{4, 8}, "X"}
Now I want to define an error message to be displayed ...
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How to catch error messages from parallel kernels
Doing something that throws out an error (warning):
ParallelTable[NIntegrate[1/Sin[10 t], {t, 0, W}], {W, 0, 10, 1}]
In parallel somehow limits a possiblity to ...
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How do I implement this feature in Manipulate?
I am trying to create a dialog box that informs the user when the input is wrong (or even when any type of error occurs) in the manipulate function.
I have the following code:
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Print messages of parallel kernels to console
This question shows how to print output to the console, but how about messages?
For the main kernel, I know this way:
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How to stop the suppression of the warnings output? [duplicate]
I have some table of numerical integrals, and during the evaluation there are outputs like
NIntegrate::ncvb: NIntegrate failed to converge to prescribed accuracy
after 9 recursive bisections in x ...
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Correct 2D representation in a message string
Message knows how to convert an expression (taken as an argument) into a string before it is spliced into an actual message:
If I run the following in my terminal ...
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Strange behavior of symbol::messageName in debugger [duplicate]
According to the documentation, there are two ways to define a message, which I implement as:
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Turn off a message forever?
I am using Mathematica on an offline PC. I constantly get the message PacletInstall::Offline at startup. Is there a way to turn off this message forever?
I know ...
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Understanding EvaluationData in messages context
Can I Quiet my procedure and still get messages info from inner EvaluationData?
This works fine:
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Avoiding the suppression of messages by NIntegrate
Consider the following code:
test[x_] := If[1 < x < 2, Message[Test::message]; x^2, x];
NIntegrate[test[x], {x, 0, 3}]
5.33333333333334
I.e. it gives me ...
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Find prefix of list in Association
I am new with Mathematica, so I am sorry if my question is a little bit trivial.
I am trying to write some kind of demonstration for coding algorithm (for prefix codes).
I have an Association that ...
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How to get all messages defined for a built-in symbol?
AFAICT, when given a built-in symbol as argument, Messages returns an empty list, at least initially.
For example:
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Plot & StreamPlot eat my Messages
I have a complicated function for StreamPlot to call that includes some error checking and the use of Message. Somehow the ...
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How to include a backquote in a message?
NB: I know one suboptimal solution to this problem, which I give at the end. I'm looking for a better one. Also, I was not able to solve this problem with the solutions give in Backquote in string ...
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How to get the error information after run a wrong expression
If we run this code:
FindCycle[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
It will give a error information like:
How to get the error info promption of ...
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Write Unit Test with expected Message
Using Workbench, I would like to check if my function does emit a message under certain circumstances. How can I test this using an .mt file? I only know about the ...
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Numerous Extraneous Error Messages from EvaluationData
In the course of solving question 134644, I encountered the message
Reduce::ztest1: Unable to decide whether numeric quantity -Log[5381171456512]+Log[(-Sqrt[101] Log2-10 Sqrt[101] Log[5]+101 (...
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How to make NIntegrate automatically resort to arbitrary precision if machine precision fails?
Sometimes NIntegrate gives me messages like NIntegrate::slwcon or NIntegrate::ncvb when I ...
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Is there any difference between Quiet and Internal`DeactivateMessages?
Both Quiet and Internal`DeactivateMessages seem to suppress error messages. Does anyone have any experience with them and found ...
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Check, Quiet and VerificationTest with messages?
I have a VerificationTest that is expected to generate some messages. It runs inside of code that uses Check to ...
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Improving `$AssertFunction` to always tell what the assertion test resulted in
I really like this form of assertion failure:
On[Assert];
Assert[1 + 1 == True];
Assert::asrttf: Assertion test 1+1==True evaluated to 2==True that is neither ...
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Disable “The option to save automatically after each result is enabled” warning
Does anybody know a way to disable the message
The option to save automatically after each result is enabled (NotebookAutoSave->True), but the notebook where you are placing results has not been ...
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How to reset the size of the Stack Trace Window?
Normally the size of the Stack Trace window can easily be changed using the ResizeArea element in the lower right corner. However, if one makes this window too ...
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How to get old message formatting in version 11?
Version 11 uses a new-style message formatting.
The new style has useful features, and it is usually desirable. However, when saved in a notebook, it doesn't display correctly in older versions of ...
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Possible bug with Testing Notebook & messages x::y where x has an OwnValue
I think this should be considered a bug (or at least an inconvenience) and should be reported:
Say you have some code generating the $RecursionLimit::reclim2 ...
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How to use Handler functions
It seems that Internal`AddHandler or other functions related to it can be quite helpful sometimes, especially when dealing with messages and such.
But the ...
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Programmatically assign output Hold[…] produced by errors to a variable
expr = Return[1, 2]
Return::nofunc: Function 2 not found enclosing Return[1,2]. >>
(*Hold[Return[1, 2]]*)
However, ...
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Is it possible to assign numbers generated in an Error-Message?
If I have a differential equation of the form:
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How can I automatically set an NIntegrate call to zero if NIntegrate::slwcon is observed?
This is a generic question about the NIntegrate function. I am attempting to numerically integrate a function which may or may not be highly oscillatory, based on it's inputs. For a certain sets of ...
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How to stop Mathematica from turning off warning messages in a loop?
I'm using NonLinearModelFit on a large set of data and which contains a nested Do-loop. I'd like to see all of the cases where there is an issue with the non-linear ...
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Please explain this pattern/Message related issue and help with finding workaround
I attempted to clean up my code and also add messages to functions if they are called with wrong arguments. This introduced some error which I tracked down to the following:
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Writing my own error and warning messages
Question:
How is message handling implemented in Mathematica when applying Set to unprotected global variables such as $TimeZone...
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How to count the number of occurences of a warning messages in the current session?
After reading:
How to count the actual occurence of a warning message in a Do loop?
I wonder about a broader question: how to count the number of occurences of a warning messages in the current ...
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How to print a warning/error message from my own module? [duplicate]
I would like to print a warning/error message from my own module. Of course I could use Print["WARNING: my warning"] but in all the output this would be barely ...
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How to specify that Quiet should silence foo::shdw messages for ANY symbol foo?
I have some package code that does rather complex multi-context evaluation, and I know it's going to throw warnings about shadowed symbols. The shadowing isn't actually a problem. For the end-user's ...
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How can I put back the Messages window back to the main Notebook? [duplicate]
After I have clicked something, the errors started popping up in the separate Messages window. I want them to show up in the main window, with the output. How can I do it?
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Checking the argument of user-defined function with side-effect method
Today, I answered a question of mine that asked two month ago. Please see here
Now I would like to add the argument checking in this function. Then I used a method that Mr.Wizard answered
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How can I see more of the Java stack trace when an exception occurs in JLink?
If I call into Java code via JLink`, and there is an uncaught exception, Mathematica produces a Java::excptn message, and prints ...
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How to check the option value?
Given that I have a function func as follow:
To check the value of options, I using the step-by-step method If[]
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Messages muted in standalone CDF files
In Mathematica, when you call a function, messages may be generated and shown in a pink Messages window:
These messages are shown also for CDF files when you open them with Mathematica. I have ...
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How to check the style and number of arguments like the built-in functions?
Given that I have a function sqrt[x] that I must check the style and number of argument x.
I can do like this:
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How to properly generate messages from LibraryLink function?
I'm currently using WolframLibraryData::Message to generate messages from a library function, like this:
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