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[T]he reason that I could select it on Feb. 18 was that the code I was executing was old and contained a statement that created a host cell. When I used the code that you sent me, and when I started from scratch and followed the instructions that you were following, I couldn't select local variable...

OK, will do when I get home (at lab presently), and will get that information to you. Thanks.

Thanks Ted you are a machine the way you respond. Figure 11.17 : I can't reproduce it. In the Details window from the Variable Time Step GUI, when I click on 'local step' it doesn't put a check mark there. If 'use variable dt' is already selected in the main VariableTimeStep GUI, then clicking 'loca...

Minor problem: working through Chapter 11 using the GUI to build a net, what I see when I press the weights button is different from what is shown on Figure 11.12. Namely, on the left-hand-side of the windo, I get a list of numbers that I've entered into the weights numeric field. That is, I get -0....

What you're calling "[2]" is just the second form presented in the Programmer's Reference. Yes, I used the simplest call in which line color can be specified. For those interested, the undocumented arguments four through six seem to affect the appearance of the label, not the lines (they ...

In the code I'm using from the book, the addvar process is typically fed six arguments (e.g., listing 6.3): g.addvar("soma.v(0.5)",1,1,0.6,0.9,2) [1]. However, from the hoc reference online ( http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/docs/help/neuron/general/classes/graph.html#addvar ), the...

Many thanks for taking the time to explain this to me. I look forward to figuring this stuff out!

Thanks for the helpful summary, Ted. There is no "click of a button" way to do that, but it's not clear why one would want to in the first place. [...] Can't be accessibility of parameters at the hoc level--aliases take care of that. Can't be interoperability with hoc and the GUI. Is there...

I am a newbie to Neuron, presently using the book and Channel Builder Tutorial to try to figure out how to add my own mechanisms. My question is about how to get results from the channel builder into an NMODL file. In the web tutorial on Channel Builder, it says: A configured Channel Builder can be ...

I'm a tinkering beginner, and have just built the model cell example.hoc from Chapter 6, Listing 6.1 (with the 'access soma' line added in the topology specification section). Then, when I open CellBuilder, it seems to start anew with none of the topology etc from the hoc file. I take this to mean c...

I like PSPad, but for one feature: when I type a left parenthesis, it automatically inserts a right-paren. That means I have to click the right arrow key to move past it before I hit return. I'd rather just type the parens myself and hit return. Does anyone know how to get rid of this trait in PSPad...

How about Table 1.1 on the top of page 4? Or is that too easily forgotten, when one is in the midst of all those procedural details that fill the subsequent pages? Working through it myself, I had the same question. Perhaps add '(see Table 1.2 for the other parameters)' as a reminder, either at the...

How can I activate this syntactic highlighter? I have saved NEURON.INI in the Syntax folder, but when I go to View-->Change Syntax, NEURON does not come up as an option. I haven't found any instructions in PSPad's help files. Added in Edit: Note for those who want to do this: the new .ini file appea...

Beautiful. Many thanks.

I have recently begun working through The Neuron Book. Great stuff! I am having a problem getting the space plot to show multiple lines. I am following the example given in Figure 1.36, but instead of multiple lines it is ploting only two lines: the initial state (resting potential along the neuraxi...