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Autocomplete is too greedy with the mouse

I have a frustrating user experience problem in Linux; a common occurrence when using the notebook might go like: I have, for some reason, used the mouse (e.g. to place the cursor) and then move the ...
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How to suppress the escape window?

Cross posted here If we first enter an empty string (""), and then paste something within the quotation marks, the following dialog box will pop up: I recorded a ...
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Embed 3D objects from Mathematica, in a pdf

Acrobat Reader 9+ supports interactive manipulation of 3D objects. See this file for example - another widely used example are PRC objects which may be produced by Asymptote. Exporting animations ...
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Visually identifying differences between two Mathematica functions

Context Let us assume we have two functions defined in Mathematica. I am interested in spotting the differences in the code for the two functions. Example ...
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What's the best way to dynamically update variables that aren't displayed on screen?

One property of Dynamic is that its result has to be displayed and manipulated onscreen for the dynamic updating to take place. What's the best way to dynamically ...
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GeoListPlot - How can I create edges between points on a GeoGraphic object by clicking on them?

I'm attempting to use Mathematica to manually create a graph from a set of GPS coordinates (vertices). This graph will define the paths an autonomous rover will travel along. Here's what I have so far ...
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Can I extract or deduce the effective input form to duplicate the results from an interactive toolbar?

The interactive toolbars that are available in 10.0+ are very nice for getting images to look the way I want; but the black box functionality is very un-Mathematica-like, and doesn't help me if I want ...
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FrontEndTokens, MathLink, and Serializer.exe

I have been using some basic MathLink programming in my work and wanted to create some more sophisticated MathLink programs. I came across the book "MathLink: Network Programming with Mathematica", ...
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Is it possible for IGGraphEditor to change the curvature of a straight edge by dragging and dropping?

Cross-posted at GitHub. IGraphM 0.6 includes IGGraphEditor[], which allows manipulating small graphs interactively. ...
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How to use GestureHandler?

Gesture handlers would be really cool to have. There is a symbol called GestureHandler. It's eight years old (from v9) but intriguing to me, as I could never ever get it to work. Does anyone know ...
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How to get DimensionReduce and FeatureSpacePlot to act consistently?

The documentation for FeatureSpacePlot does not appear to be consistent with it's behavior in 13.1 The documentation indicates you can wrap the inputs to ...
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Real-time interactive simulation

I would like to know how to use mathematica to make a real-time physics simulation that can be interacted with using a cursor. As an example, consider a classical magnetic dipole in a background field,...
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How to make this interface?

I was recently watching this video on the role of the Wolfram language on data science and engineering, and upon discussion of data manipulation, the following CDF was briefly shown (around 0:50 in ...
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Lock cursor position to mouse

I would like to lock the cursor position, i.e. the insertion point, to the current position of the mouse at all times in a given notebook. An experiment with J/Link approximates this, by repeatedly ...
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Two interactive ListLinePlots

I need to build an interactive interface to visualize multiples plots at the same time. Let's consider two lists: ...
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How were the graphs in the documentation directly entered?

So I was reading the documentation on the FindPostmanTour function and in several places I see graphs being directly shown without any obvious method by which they were constructed, leading me to ...
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How do I loop audio playback automatically?

(Many of the Audio* symbols and functionality are still mostly experimental, so I understand that not all the kinks might be worked out yet. Still, I'd like to try ...
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Interactive 3D Connect dots

I have some 2d slices of a 3d model - These are comprised of points and lines. I want to connect them using something like nearest neighbors, but some of the points in each 2D slice are too far apart ...
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Splitting a SetterBar to multiple lines, wrapping at a given page margin?

I have 4 SetterBars linked to the same variable, and representing 593 choices in four categories. How might I get a sensical output that wraps to window or screen or some arbitrary margin? ...
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Manipulating an Image to see the effect of changing certain properties

I tried to create a Manipulate expression containing an image where I can adjust some values, color1, ...
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Giving new input while program is running

This is a substantial edit of the initial question. Thanks to MikeLimaOscar I can narrow my problem to the use of Input. I want Mathematica to ask me for a value that I will give if I find a complex ...
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Interactive model for the PageRank Vector

I'm trying to build an interactive model that will allow me to calculate the PageRank vector of small scale web graphs, however I need the model to also display the graph with the first five most ...
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