Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is the most effective way to setup a Notebook with transparent background but solid contents?
I know there is a Notebook option WindowOpacity can be used to adjust the opacity of a whole notebook. But what I want is keeping the text and graphics and so on ...
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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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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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Implementing bookmarks in the front end when editing a package
Sometimes when working on larger pieces of code or on a larger package I really miss the option to bookmark the current line/position in the code.
Since the front-end is quite extendable my question ...
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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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Prevent text from wrapping in a notebook
By default in the Notebook interface the text wraps.
Is it possible to prevent this wrapping?
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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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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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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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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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How to copy hyperlink addresses using the keyboard
I would like to copy the address of a hyperlink in Mathematica using the keyboard.
I found code for copying hyperlink addresses in ContextMenus.tr:
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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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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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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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How do I find all the possible events that work with EventHandler?
The EventHandler documentation, More Information section, lists 5 mouse events:
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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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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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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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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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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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Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8
In Mathematica versions $\le$ 8, the FrontEnd has a very intelligent behavior:
On evaluation, it by default automatically scrolls down the Notebook window to the last printed Output cell but also ...
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How to visualize/edit a big matrix as a table?
Is it possible to visualize/edit a big matrix as a table ? I often end up exporting/copying big tables to Excel for seeing them, but I would prefer to stay in Mathematica and have a similar view as in ...
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Is it possible to insert an animated image into Mathematica notebook?
I find it very convenient to use Mathematica notebooks to organise the codes + results.
I was wondering if it is possible to insert an animated image (say an animated gif) in the middle of a ...
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How do I add new menuitems to menus?
What are some complete examples of what one would include in a FrontEnd init.m that would make use of FrontEnd`AddMenuCommands ...
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How make AddMenuCommands work in an init.m
I want to add some items to the Mathematica 8.0.4 Help menu (under Mac OS X). In
[$UserBaseDirectory]/Autoload/FrontEnd/init.m
I have the following cell:
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How to add an entirely new menu
Is it possible to add an entirely new menu, say menu "CustomApp" on the fly?
For example a CustomApp package could add its own menu "CustomApp" with submenus, ect, once Needed.
Former examples I ...
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Best way to add KeyEvents and faster Quit
Many users have asked how to add KeyEvents to speed/improve keyboard input. This is just a random example. The technique is always the same. It requires that you ...
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Defining symbol shortcuts in the Front End
I was wondering (because I could not find any documentation on this) if it is possible to do shorthand abbreviations for domains or could one define them?
E.g.
In[1]:= Element[p,Complexes]
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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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How to convert between various ItemSize/ImageSize units?
How can one convert between the implicit units used by Grid (ems and line height for horizontal and vertical dimensions) and printers points (in ...
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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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