Questions tagged [customization]
Customizing interaction, the front end, or other aspects of Mathematica manually or programmatically.
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Show timing of every output
I know I can follow Wolfram's guide and enable "ShowTiming" to show the timing of the previous command at the bottom of the window.
Additionally, I can enable <...
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Un-assign MenuCommandKey
In my StyleSheet, I would like to assign to the environment Subchapter the Key Alt+2 (via MenuCommandKey. However, this is ...
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Turn PasteButton into keyboard shortcut
I'm looking for a general "recipe" to do with a keyboard shortcut what I currently do with a PasteButton. Here is a working toy example ...
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Augment Export function to support custom number formatting
It's a shame that the Export framework provides no support for custom formatting of real numbers. Is it possible to augment the framework so that a "NumberForm" ...
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Automated (lazy) method to make custom (key-input) shortcuts (not menu items) for letter-like symbols? [duplicate]
The Problem:
I don't know about you, but every time I am trying to do analytical work in Mma, it is rather difficult/cumbersome for me to type the following, here specifically for ...
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How to reset a built-in symbol to its default definition?
I'm trying to add functionality to some of Mathematica's built-in functions in a package I'm building. I'm not trying to overwrite any functionality—just add it where it isn't already defined.
I ...
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Changing Color of error messages
I would like to change (from the stylesheet) the colors of the error messages. For example, trying to evaluate
Solve[wrongsyntax = 0, var]
gives an obvious error ...
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Changing text color for Input fields
I try changing the color for the Input fields. By going to Format >> Text Color >> Orange the color stays to the default value of blue?? For any other ...
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Using fallback fonts
I'd like to specify a FontFamily that does a fallback if the specified font is not on my system. E.g. I'd like the base font to be ...
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Create library of custom functions [duplicate]
I have been trying to create a library of custom functions that I could just call at the start of every notebook.
For instance, say I want the following functions to be part of the Library, or even ...
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Modify CellLabel of Print cell in stylesheet
I would like to modify the style of Print in a Mathematica notebook. Locally, I can do so by toggling on Show Cell Expression of ...
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How to make an option immutable
I am writing a package featuring several functions which depend on a large number of parameters. I'm trying to use Options so that I can define default values for ...
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Exclude functions from auto-completion
Is there a way to exclude a function from auto-completion? Suppose that you are developing a package, and in the next version a function will be deprecated. It is better not to auto-complete it so ...
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Change magnification only for NEW notebooks? [duplicate]
I'm using Mathematica 11.3. In an earlier version, there was, I believe, an option allowing one to change the magnification for new notebooks (created, say, using the menu item File > New or the ...
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The default FormLayoutFunction
FormLayoutFunction allows you to specify a custom layout for form's items.
But what if you want to only slight fix the default layout? It is not so clear what is ...
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How to set up the new Notebook frontend aligned to screen's TopLeft automatically?
How to config the preference so that when a new Notebook frontend be created or opened then the Notebook be moved and aligned to screen's TopLeft with the screen's Height automatically?
On ...
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Add spaces to Mathematica comment delimiters?
Not exactly the world's most pressing problem, but one that has now exceeded my tolerance level. If I comment out a line of input such as
f[x_]:=x+1;
with Alt-/ (...
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Making an Association-like interface for HashTable
System`Utilities`HashTable is conceptually a lot like an Association but it has the pretty phenomenal (for Mathematica) property ...
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Custom Property interface on my own objects
I know I can use the Property interface for things like Graph but I want to use it for all of my objects. This includes:
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Efficient structure for XML manipulation
I'm interested in working with XML more conveniently and efficiently than I currently can. The standard XMLDocument/XMLElement ...
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Custom conversion rules in UnitConvert
I want to make UnitConvert operate on custom units with special rules.
For instance, I would like to be able to convert between ...
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Custom Hotkey Toggle Initialization
In this old stack overflow answer (referring to this even older page) it is shown how to make custom hotkeys by modifying the file KeyEventTranslations.tr.
Some ...
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How can I implement a listener variable in Mathematica?
I'd like to be able to listen to a variable and know when it's been changed and accept/reject the change as well as use it as an update listener for Dynamic how can ...
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Create a ProcessObject for a process not made with StartProcess
I am launching and linking to Mathematica from an external process and would like to be able to create a ProcessObject for the launching process that will support <...
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Programmatically create a keyboard shortcut to “Align Center” a Text Cell without losing cursor position
I'm attempting to create a keyboard shortcut to center the contents of a text cell exactly as clicking "Align Center" accomplishes in the Format Menu. As far as I can tell, there is no frontendtoken ...
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How to create a workbook type notebook?
I have some long workflows where the current method of sectioning and expand/collapse is becoming tedious.
I would like to create a workbook type notebook; a notebook that owns fully functioning ...
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Special forms for autocompletion strings
Szabolcs has previously dug up a very useful tool to make custom autocompletions.
Here's that in action:
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Create responsive, resizing, centered DockedCell
I was trying to define the same decorative toolbar as it is pictured here in stylesheet. I succeed to do so. Now, I want to define custom decorative toolbar in the Default stylesheet using the same ...
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How to customize the appearance of the taskbar window?
When a Running notebook in v10.4 is minimalized, on the taskbar it reads Running... Untitled-1.... For v11.3 it reads ...
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BugTracker in Mathematica paclet
I've been dealing with bugs in a very ad hoc fashion, mostly hitting them as they come or trying to write a note in my code to deal with them.
As my codebase has broken the 50000 loc mark I find it's ...
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Use default styling in custom plot function
I have a set of velocity vectors that I'd like to plot as if I'd used ListVectorPlot3D.
Of course, I can't use ListVectorPlot3D ...
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Is there a way to add my own coordinate chart?
You all may have seen something like this:
U = Laplacian[Phi, {r, theta, phi}, "Spherical"]
What I want is to add my own Chart with its own coordinates, metric ...
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Turn off Control+=
I hit Ctrl+= at least once a week and it always takes forever to load and is generally useless. I know SW likes it because he uses it all the time in the livestreams, but I truly hate it. I'll make a ...
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ShowGroupOpener's behavior change in 11.3
Among many settings for a fresh installation I have
CurrentValue[$FrontEnd, ShowGroupOpener] = True
in order to have sections openers always visible.
It does ...
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Linked images via stylesheet
When I work with lots of images, I don't always want them cooked into my notebook. This adds to the file bloat and if I change things externally I have to copy them back in.
Can I efficiently link ...
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Use new cellgroup opener button for closing too?
Is there some way to keep the (new in v11.3) cell group opener button:
So I can use it to close the group?
Such a feature/hack would be nice as it takes me more effort to find the exact tiny ...
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How to set default for Notebook's Default Context
Every time I create a new notebook, I have to go into the settings and click
Evaluation > Notebook's Default Context > Unique to This Notebook.
Is there any way to make Mathematica do this ...
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Can color schemes for use with ColorData include opacity specification?
Following instructions from Is it possible to insert new colour schemes into ColorData?, I was able to create the custom color scheme:
by using the following code:
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Receiving visual notifications even when Mathematica is minimized?
How to receive visual notifications on screen during long computation even when Mathematica is minimized?
Question is similar to this: How to make the Mathematica icon flash in the taskbar?.
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Creating a tagged, findable, editable front-end object
Often when I'm working in the FE I find myself wishing I could get better access to the actual objects I'm working with. I'll want to manipulate part of an object I built using, say, ...
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Live code templates
I enjoy coding in the FrontEnd (except it crashes and lookup across files does not exist), but I often miss 'hands on keyboard', customizable code templates.
E.g. I often forget to wrap an option ...
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How can I create a help button that looks more “professional”?
My goal, is to make the following button,
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How to programatically disable internet connectivity
Internet connectivity may cause slows evaluations or cause unexpected problems (particularly in GUIs) when working in an environment with slow Internet or no Internet access at all. I know how to ...
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How can I automatically generate all the front-end settings for a function?
I mostly write my packages within the Mathematica FE, but when I develop I never really think all the usage messages, autocompletes, syntax info, and argx patterns that a well developed function would ...
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Improving paclet formatting
Cross posted on Wolfram Community
For such an increasingly relevant data type the Paclet has a particularly useless formatted form.
Can we do better?
In ...
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How to overlay a label and a cell frame?
How to put a label on a cell frame or align cell frame label with parent's cell frame?
Like that:
I did it but the solution is ugly not very responsive. I will post it unless better solutions appear....
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Event action default before custom
I want to change how a notebook files save. The basic framework I'm using for this is:
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Disable beep when editing stylesheet notebooks
When editing stylesheet notebooks that are bound to a currently open notebook, the front-end emits an incredibly annoying beep with every key-stroke.
To see this in action, run this:
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Spelling check for InputField
Is it possible to enable ShowAutoSpellCheck for String InputFields? Similarly to
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Making a header-body-footer interface without Grid and Column
I want to make a nice little interface with a header-bar, a main-body, and a footer.
Grid and Column based constructs can get ...
