Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).
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Problems with images caused by which stylesheet is used
Update
This looks now like it was a bug in Mathematica version 8, because
everything works as expected - at least for this minimal example - in
version 9. (As an aside, I couldn't seem to find ...
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How to find out available fonts from within Mathematica?
How to find out available fonts on the system from within Mathematica? When I do
Style["foobar", FontFamily -> "Foobar"]
how do I know which font the ...
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How to change the style definitions for Default.nb?
I have looked over other questions related to style definitions, and looked through the Mathematica 8 documentation, but I do not know why I am having so much difficulty setting the default font in my ...
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Why are all the lines commented when I create a Mathematica script?
When I created a Mathematica script, I found that all my lines were commented out (when opened with vi or gedit or any other ...
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Where can I find a list of functions, specifically views, that can be translated to a C standalone executable?
I want to create a standalone mathematica executable. I would like to have some view capabilities like CreateDialog or TabView or those kinds of things. I would like my users to have an interface to ...
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Limiting the use of discrete graphics card on Mac
Apple's laptop running Mac OS have a pretty nice feature to make the battery last longer: the dynamically switch between the low-power integrated graphics card and the higher-performance dedicated ...
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Why do syntax errors make a 8.` run through $PreRead in a TagBox?
Modified code from the help file on $Pre:
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Closing front end from within
Based on this I'd like to close the mathematica front end without the nagging dialog boxes that follow.
Why am I trying to do this?
I have a bash script which is such:
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Clear Citation Style Cache
How can I clear the "Citation Styles Cache" created when you use the EndNote citation management feature for the first time in Mathematica. The Citation Management tutorial indicates that such a ...
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How to switch between different CDFs in CDF Player?
I recently got a Mac. It has CDF Player, but not Mathematica. How do I get CDF Player to switch between different CDFs on OS X Lion?
Edit
I forgot to mention that I want to know how to switch ...
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Page Break Adjustment In Long Documents
Has anyone else had trouble in relocating page breaks in a long document? In a ~45 page long document I wanted to keep certain things on the same page. The system worked on the first three or four ...
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How to insert or use the PackageTemplate?
In the system resource file MiscStrings.tr there is a template:
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Programmatically minimize mathematica?
I can minimize a notebook easy enough with Mathematica code, but how does one minimize all of the Mathematica front end? Just as if you clicked the minimize button on the menu bar? This is for ...
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Notebook with a WindowOpacity too small becomes “click-through” for mouse
I created a notebook and was manipulating its WindowOpacity option:
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Programmatically move the cursor to a desired location on the screen
Is it possible to set/move the mouse pointer's location directly from Mathematica without using external tools like Run["xdotool mousemove x y"]?
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Take screenshot of the entire desktop using Mathematica
Is it possible to get a screenshot of the entire desktop directly in Mathematica?
I am on Ubuntu running Mathematica 8. For some reason GUIScreenShot[] fails. But ...
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Open two copies of the same notebook
Is there a way to open one notebook in two (or more) different windows? This can be helpful when working with a long notebook and one wants to edit one part of it while looking at a different part. ...
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What is Sub Mathematica?
When looking at the locally available licenses, I see four entries: "Mathematica", "MathKernel", "Sub Mathematica" and "Sub Mathkernel". Now "Mathematica", "MathKernel" and "Sub Mathkernel" are clear, ...
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How to select all initialization cells?
Is there an easy way to select all initialization cells (and only those) in a Mathematica notebook?
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Using mouse back/forward buttons in Mathematica's help system
I have a generic mouse with back/forward buttons. Those buttons are recognized by the system - I can use xev to see that they generate events for buttons number 8 ...
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Can individual locators in LocatorPane be temporarily disabled?
This follows up on another question about the sensitivity of Locators in a a LocatorPane.
I would like to be able to enable/disable individual locators in a LocatorPane.
In the simplified version of ...
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Using DynamicWrapper with multiple Dynamics with different TrackedSymbols
I have two variables A and B that are linked such that changes to one causes the other to be updated to the same value. However at each change I'd also like to know which variable cause the update to ...
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Restrict Sensitivity of Locators in LocatorPane
We can restrict the movement of locators in a LocatorPane as follows:
In the following example, the first locator's movement is confined to the x-axis and the ...
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Saving my code before cell evaluations: Insurance against front end hanging
I guess my programming working style is not unique. I develop programs one cell at a time, and when I have some confidence about what I did, I put all my mess together refining the code, building up ...
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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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In Mathematica 7 for Windows, is it possible to use custom GUI magnifications?
I am running Mathematica 7 on Windows XP Pro. I often use the magnification feature to zoom in on Plots, ListPlots, 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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Possible to apply a function without brackets?
I was just playing around with entering two dimensional forms of some expressions. As an example, I wanted to write Integral[Cot[t],t]. I got as far as ...
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Programmatically quitting the FrontEnd or running without one?
I have a conundrum.
I use an iMac's OS X 10.6.8 settings to start and stop the machine at the specific times that I need a particular notebook to run. I've done this because it has worked more ...
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Drag & drop path info into front end?
On OSX at least, it's possible to quickly retrieve a folder/file path by dragging & dropping the folder/file into the terminal, eg:
Is it possible to program Mathematica's front end enable ...
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Using the Mathematica front-end efficiently for editing notebooks
Background:
I have used Vim for 15+ years. There is a certain "one"-ness with the editor one achieves. Emacs users also experience this. Notepad users do not.
My current interaction with the ...
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How to access off-cell mouse position inside an EventHandler?
Consider the following example. First, I print the dynamically updated value of the actual position of the mouse, then I print pt, which is the same but is only ...
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How can I easily eliminate the dependency of a stylesheet on a non-built-in stylesheet?
As per discussion here:
User A has a notebook that uses custom definitions from styles.nb. Now user A passes the notebook to user B. The styles do not show up for B because B does not have styles.nb. ...
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Inlining calculations in a notebook
Context
In $\LaTeX$, I can write something like:
Thus, we have $x = \sqrt{2}$, ...
the $ ... $, as opposed to $$ ... $$, inline the LaTeX symbols.
Now, with ...
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List of Mathematica textual symbols
Context
I am using Mathematica to create live documents - documents that are both interactive and show mathematical derivations. Now, I'm aware that there are certain symbols that are available via:
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Easy button or hot key to switch between `Working` and `SlideShow` Screen Environments to avoid trip to menu
When I edit a slide show it easy to copy whole slides in Working Screen Environment but nice to preview slides in SlideShow ...
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How do you change the font size of a Manipulator label?
I have a stand alone Manipulator (it is not in a Manipulate) and would like to know how to alter the style of the label. There ...
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Mathematica Opens Each Session With Beep
First off, I am using Mathematica 8.0 and Mac OS X 10.7.4. Recently, when starting a new Mathematica session, I am confronted with an error beep and message window stating "The file you tried to open ...
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C interface for Mathematica
I would like to write a small C program which starts a Mathematica session, executes some user defined code and retrieves the output and finally quits the session. Basically I like to have a simple ...
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SetOptions for every new notebook [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mathematica “prelude”
I'd like every plot to have a frame and Helvetica labels. I'm satisfied with
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Print documentation (or front end) with all Openers open?
From the online reference:
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Opener.html
a JS function javascript:open_ES() is invoked to open all Openers within a section. Note (1) this feature is ...
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votes
4answers
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Dialog inside dialog not DialogReturn-ing properly
How can I prevent the DialogInput from failing (or returning early) as soon as I close the "Close this" dialog?
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1answer
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Why is SystemDialogInput failing to return a save file path?
I am encountering a problem using SystemDialogInput within a Button. The
code below shows what I am doing. To test this create a ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to programmatically do a “save as ” on an init.nb file to save it as init.m?
I am using Mathematica 8.0.4.0 running under Windows 7. Is there a way to programmatically do a "save as " on an init.nb file to save it as init.m?
In the documentation center under ...
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How can I set an image to be the Notebook's background?
Is it possible to set a notebook's background to a nonscrolling image?
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New display format needed: “drag box”
I want to create a new display type, especially for numbers or text, but potentially for arbitrary objects as well. I want a "drag box" where not all of the number (object) is visible, but dragging ...
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What is the syntax for selecting multiple layers in an Overlay?
From the documentation:
Overlay[{Subscript[expr, 1],Subscript[expr, 2],...},{i,j,...},s]
allows selections to be made and controls to be clicked in
Subscript[expr, s].
and an example of ...
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Use Slider2D to add data points to a list
This bit of code sets up a list with the first entry already in it -- {{1,1}}
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