Questions tagged [grid-layouts]
Questions about producing vertically and horizontally aligned output.
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What is the most elegant way to display multiple graphs with a common title?
I often seek to display two graphs, side by side, with a common label over them. There is no option for adding a label to GraphicsRow, which means, I think, that I ...
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Schedule programing problem with integer linear programming
I know how to model this question on paper, but I don't know how doing it in Mathematica.
Imagine , there is a university student who want to choose courses for this semester and he got the ...
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How can I create an advanced grid interface?
Working on a CDF for report creation, I miss having a nice grid interface, where I would have basic operations like being able to sort a columns by clicking on the columns head (ascending and ...
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
Most modern GUI building libraries (e.g. cocoa) support this basic operation in tables or lists: reordering items with a mouse. For example, the drag-and-drop of items in a MacOS finder or app window:
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Generating schedules/timetables in Mathematica
I've always used MS Excel to create my school schedules, and I've always been happy with the results.
Is there a similar GUI way to generate schedules/timetables in Mathematica or a third-party ...
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Build a refined grid based on intersecting line
I honestly have no idea where to begin with this problem. In summary, I have a 2D coarse grid with an intersecting line. For an easy example, let's assume it's a 4x4 grid.
I wish to pass through each ...
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Export to PDF - scaling grids of plots and text size
Sometimes I have occasion to make big grids of plots. As a toy example:
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Grid - Item - Alignment to decimal problem
Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and fixed in 13.1
I've run into a Grid layout problem for which I don't know a solution. I want to specify alignment to a ...
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When is a symbol a Symbol? Is there an easy Mathematica way to test if an object is a symbol sort of like a SymbolQ?
Yes I know there is no built-in native function called SymbolQ (but JavaScript does). However, could one be simulated to work for most cases? I often rely on ...
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Grid cuts my images
Bug introduced in V9.0 or earlier and persisting through V11.2
pic2 = ImageResize[
ImageCrop@Rasterize@Graphics@Disk[],
{Automatic, 40}]
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Grid layout problems: different sizes when rendering on Mac and Windows
From the documentation for ItemSize:
{w,h} make all items the specified width and height
and
In Grid, w is measured in ems, and h in line heights.
This ...
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Display hexagon grid to visualize Langton's ant
I am looking to recreate the following image from this reference as
using Mathematica's Polygon documentation under "Applications" as a starting point. I want to eventually use Mathematica ...
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How do I display imported images at actual size?
I know that this is an extremely basic question, but I am having a lot of trouble finding the answer in the documentation.
When I import an image (for example, ...
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The mysterious gap inside Grid
There's this gap inside Grid which I cannot seem to remove. Perhaps someone knows how.
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Combining BarChart and Grid - IPCC style
I would like to combine a plot with a table. Something like this famous plot/table from IPCC:
So after reading Combining graphics & lists / tables I tried an approach using ...
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Column makes fonts smaller
When you use Column (or Grid) a previously styled element with explicit font-size setting appears much smaller. Here is an ...
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How to create dataset with ordered and hierarchically-grouped rows?
The (toy-example) dataset plots consists of 12 rows, the first two of which are shown below:
I want to arrange the plots shown in the ...
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Grid - problem with ItemSize being ignored
Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.0 or later. Fixed in 13.0.0 or earlier
I have run into another problem with Grid today.
An explicitly ...
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Is there a way to exert finer control Dataset Cell Coloration Like in Grid?
In Grid one can control the foreground and background color of specific cells, rows, and columns, whether initially or via computation. Although Dataset seems to use Grid intrinsically, from existing ...
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How to properly use FrameLabel with the new PlotLayout feature?
Behold! MMA 13 brought us closer to getting publication-ready plots. I wonder if we can solve this one once and for all with a nifty & modern wolfram syntax.
I'd like to have 4 plots with each y-...
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Possible to draw an Item in a Grid with only 3 sides of a Frame?
I'm trying to draw a Grid of characters where some of the characters have Frame lines on 3 sides. For example:
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TableSpacing oddity
Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and persisting through 12.0
TableForm[Partition[Range@9, 3], TableSpacing -> {0, 0.5}]
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How to create (Header + Main area + Settings pane) notebook layout
cross-posted in community.wolfram.com
The goal is something like in the picture below.
Basic? I dare you to try to implement it in a manageable, scalable and flexible way.
Requirements:
The goal ...
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TableForm with a title
My question is rather simple.
I want to put a title into a table.
For example, consider a list with depth two and a title
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Combining histograms with a scatter plot
I'm trying to combine graphics using Grid such that I have a ListPlot[] in the middle and a histogram on the top and right axes. ...
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Grid - sizing and spacing problems with spanning cells
I am trying to set up a Grid with cells that span two rows and are centered on those rows, but I am having troubles with the sizing and, therefore, spacing of the ...
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How to set row height in Grid?
I always thought that Grid (and the underlying GridBox) and the general handling of tabular objects is a bit weird in ...
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Arranging elements in a Grid by drag&drop
I have some elements in a Grid. I want to change their positions within that Grid. Can I swap their positions just by dragging ...
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How to make Excel-like data bars?
I would like to make a grid where each cell background is partially filled according to the numerical value being represented (on a scale from 0 to 1). Similar functionality to the one requested in ...
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How to create a multi-graphics plot (i.e. the decomposition of phase plane portrait) with well-organized structure?
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I am trying to create a three-graphics plot using the command GraphicsGrid[] to show the decomposition of the phase plane portrait; unfortunately, the ...
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An odd Grid style
Consider the following grid
n = 10;
Grid[{{"Matrix", SpanFromLeft},
RandomInteger[n, n], RandomInteger[n, n]},
Frame -> All, Alignment -> Center]
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Exporting an image so that the PlotRange has a fixed size in the output
I am writing a document that involves a table of plots, of an array of quantities ($f$ and $g$, say) against an array of variables ($x$ and $y$, say), and which I would like to present in the ...
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How to merge two lists with different dimensions
I have two list, just like
a={a1,a2,a3,a4};
b={b1,b2,b3,b4,b5};
I want merge them and save to excel, as they have different dimention, so I want it have the ...
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Group dataset on two keys (GroupBy)
I would like to group the elements of row c of the following dataset according to the values in the columns a and b. That is
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And then I would like to print this on a grid, ...
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How can I add a vertical spacing in a `CheckboxBar`?
I have an example here from the solution of @krasten 7. In this I would like some vertical spacing between the checkboxes. Any ideas?
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Grid ItemSize is smaller than expected
If I execute MatrixPlot@IdentityMatrix@100, the result is a good size. However, if I evaluate
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Row and Column Headings for a Grid
It would be useful for me if I could write:
Grid[{{a, b}, {c, d}, {e, f}},
GridHeadings -> {{"r1", "r2", "r3"}, {"c1", "c2"}}]
just like
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Grid changes FrameTicksStyle font size
I have a contour plot that I'm trying to organize into a grid using Grid. But Grid changes the ...
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Inconsistent image sizing with Grid and Row?
Can anyone explain why Row and Grid don't size the image correctly and consistently to 300 ...
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Part of an Image cut/lost when exported to EPS file
When making .EPS image files for publication, I tried to assemble several Graphics by Grid. For example, suppose I have:
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Grid without lines, but with dots
I want to build a grid to look like the top-left table shown below, but without an outside frame.
Here is what I've tried to do:
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Prevent Grid from resizing images
Aligning my images in Grid causes one of them to become smaller, despite specifying each of their sizes with ImageSize:
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Changing the background color of one element in a Grid
Consider the following code:
Grid[Table[x, {4}, {7}], Background -> {4 -> LightRed}]
This highlights column 4:
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How to add rows to a Grid in front end?
I created a grid g1 with Grid[] and then a separate grid g2. ...
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Control line wrapping within a Grid cell
I'm trying to display a number tables of data in my document which have column headings that are longer than the cell width for those columns so they need to wrap within the grid cell. I have no ...
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Interactively select a row/column of a Grid
I need a simple way to display tabular data (preferably with Grid) and also be able to select a row or column of the table. I've tried different approaches, but I ...
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How to scale the size of Pane to make it fit a Grid element?
I am wanting to make a Pane scale to fit (if Spacings are zero) a Grid element.
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GraphicsGrid of plots with legends
I use GraphicsGrid to get a table of contour plots, where each of the plots is using its own scaling, so I want to include the bar legend for each of the plots. But ...
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