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I'm wondering if it's possible to set actions to the words in a WordCloud. I'd like to press a word and have it printed. I noticed here that Button[] can be used like ToolTip[] so changed the example code

entities = EntityValue[CountryData[], {"Name", "Population"}];
WordCloud[{Tooltip[#[[1]], #[[2]]], #[[2]]} & /@ entities]

into this but didn't work 'cause strings were expected. Then I thought that maybe an hyperlink would work but this only works with URL, right?

WordCloud[{Button[#[[1]], Print[#[[1]]]]} & /@ entities]

Thank's for your help

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    $\begingroup$ try WordCloud[{Button[#[[1]], Print[#[[1]]]]} & /@ entities] or WordCloud[{Button[#[[1]], Print@ #], #[[2]]} & /@ entities] $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 4:05
  • $\begingroup$ Thank's, the second option worked $\endgroup$
    – Mara Luisa Amada Tercero
    Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 14:55

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The elements of the input list should be of the form {Button[$string_i$, $action_i$], $weight_i$} or,for unweighted data, just Button[$string_i$, $action_i$]. So

 WordCloud[{Button[#[[1]], Print@#], #[[2]]} & /@ entities]

works as expected:

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You can remove the braces around Button[...] in your code to get an unweighted word cloud:

WordCloud[Button[#[[1]], Print@#] & /@ entities]

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