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Keep palette visible when Mathematica application loses focus
When the Mathematica application loses focus, palette windows disappear (normal notebooks and dialogs (CreateDialog) stay). This is usually convenient because the ...
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Programmatically opening a palette from the Palettes menu
How can I programmatically open a palette from the Palettes menu? Is there a Front End token for this?
Motivation:
Certain settings for the palettes that are installed into standard locations and ...
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Refreshing the Palettes menu
How can the contents of the Palettes menu be refreshed (preferably programmatically) without restarting the Front End?
When droppping a new palette notebook into ...
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Unexpected behavior of PasteButton
Assume the following very complex palette:
CreatePalette[
PasteButton[FontColor -> RGBColor[1, 0, 0]]
];
Its purpose is to insert a ...
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What is modifying an init.m that changes menu Palettes order?
When I installed the mathStatica application, it seems to have made some kind of change deep in my Mathematica 8.0.4 system files. That change causes the mathStatica palette to appear out of ...
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How to sort cells in a notebook based on cell tags?
Suppose I have a notebook with cells tagged with both numbers and words with numbers always list first, and some cells without cell tags e.g.:
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2answers
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How change order of items added to the Palettes menu?
After installing an add-on package (Spin) in $UserBaseDirectory/Applications, there is now a new palette for that package listed on the ...
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1answer
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Toolbars in Mathematica
Mathematica seriously lacks some useful toolbars. I wonder why keeping a totally barebone gui is part of WRI's policy? Would such a feature be so platform-specific that it does not worth design it? I ...
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WYSIWYG table creating and editing
In Microsoft Office OneNote 2010, creating and editing tables is easy. There are simple toolbar controls for creating tables:
,
and editing them once they exist:
.
My question is, what's an easy ...
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Programmatically copy code so that all output is commented out
UPDATE: The final palette has a new home here! Please test and provide feedback (usability, suggestions, bugs)
A note to the readers and voters: This is intended for community use, so please test the ...
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What are the most common (usual) ways to make palettes with non-trivial functionality?
What are the best (most robust and most convenient) ways to create palettes that can be installed permanently (using Palettes -> Install Palette...) and are safe ...
