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SPSS 19 visual problems

lisa
I have installed v19 and both patches, I am running on Win 7 32bit. I have reinstalled twice and the same problem occurs. I have also reinstalled java. Below are 2 imgs of a syntax file (data files also do not appear correct), the syntax exists but is not readily visible, as I move my cursor down random characters appear but not the entire line, mousing over the menu bar options appear and disappear, and random characters appear on my screen as is apparent in the img. Any suggestions/fixes?

Thanks for any and all input!!!

my syntax

Here's a second img after doing page down and page up...

my syntax2
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Re: SPSS 19 visual problems

Art Kendall
I have never seen this problem.  However, I see many repetitions of GET TRANSLATE, EXECUTE, SAVE EXECUTE in the left panel.
Are you working with a lot of input files?

perhaps Windows has burped over so many files active at once.

I do not recall whether GET TRANSLATE needs a  command that forced a data pass. SAVE is definitely a procedure so the execute are unnecessary.

Try this while you are waiting for more definitive responses on the list.
exit SPSS
reboot
start SPSS.
bring in your syntax.
remove the executes.
run a few of the get translates with saves.
see if you are creating a few data sets.
see if you are creating a few disk files.
Does the problem occur when you only do a few of the input files?
Does the problem occur with other syntax?


I thought there was a DOS command to close a file that you could use with a HOST command after a SAVE, but can't recall it.

There are command extensions for dealing with many files, if you describe what you are trying to do list members might be able to suggest a workaround.

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

On 12/7/2011 1:03 PM, lisa wrote:
I have installed v19 and both patches, I am running on Win 7 32bit. I have
reinstalled twice and the same problem occurs. I have also reinstalled java.
Below are 2 imgs of a syntax file (data files also do not appear correct),
the syntax exists but is not readily visible, as I move my cursor down
random characters appear but not the entire line, mousing over the menu bar
options appear and disappear, and random characters appear on my screen as
is apparent in the img. Any suggestions/fixes?

Thanks for any and all input!!!

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/file/n5056519/spss.jpg

Here's a second img after doing page down and page up...

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/file/n5056519/spss2.jpg

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Re: SPSS 19 visual problems

Jon K Peck
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This isn't an SPSS Statistics problem.  Some computers have video adapters that don't handle video acceleration correctly.  It seems to affect some applications more than others.

To test this, try setting your video hardware acceleration off or to a lower value.  I don't recall exactly how to do this on Win7, but it's probably similar to XP.  On XP...

Right click on empty area of desktop and choose properties.
Choose the Settings tab
Advanced
The hardware control is a slider.  Set it off, restart Statistics, and see if that works.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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I have installed v19 and both patches, I am running on Win 7 32bit. I have
reinstalled twice and the same problem occurs. I have also reinstalled java.
Below are 2 imgs of a syntax file (data files also do not appear correct),
the syntax exists but is not readily visible, as I move my cursor down
random characters appear but not the entire line, mousing over the menu bar
options appear and disappear, and random characters appear on my screen as
is apparent in the img. Any suggestions/fixes?

Thanks for any and all input!!!

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/file/n5056519/spss.jpg

Here's a second img after doing page down and page up...

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/file/n5056519/spss2.jpg

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