Questions tagged [dialog-window]
Dialog windows are special notebook windows of the Mathematica front end.
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CreateDialog, which button pushed?
I've got a dialog box:
CreateDialog[{"foo", InputField[], Grid[{{DefaultButton[], CancelButton[]}}]}]
Is there any way to see if the Cancel button was ...
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UI from CreateDialog question
I'm trying to create a dialog box, from which a user can input one or more responses. Here's my code:
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CreateDialog[] doesn't return its local variable
Just trying to build a dialog window for picking items from the list.
However it doesn't work as expected. Here is the simplified example
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Clear variables on window close
I'm using
DynamicModule[{
var1,
var2
},
CreateDialog[
(*some code here*)
]]
In order to be able to deal with memory isolation for multiple copies of a program ...
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How to abort evaluation when clicking CancelButton in program with Dialog boxes?
If you run the following code you will notice when Cancelbutton is clicked, the output is an $Abort, but it continues running the following cells, I tried different things but no one works.
I want to ...
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Replace Mathematica icon in window title bar by an own icon
I like to run a mathematica program in a customized window,
so I would like to have my own icon left to the window title of my notebook window instead of the system icon.
i.e.:
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Warning window with timer
I'm deploying a package to consumers to test out that isn't complete and ready to use yet, just so they can give me feedback on usability and do feature requests. While doing so I want it to be clear ...
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Association auto-populating with ChoiceDialog
While trying to use the ChoiceDialog function to populate an association, I have run into an interesting issue...
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Hide the Wolfram Cloud Activity window
I'm new to Mathematica. I use Wolfram Cloud to save my notebooks and I've enabled autosave. So, whenever I press Shift+Enter (after saving once), the notebook gets saved on the cloud. The problem is ...
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Can one force dialogs to use the textual from when using the front end?
The documentation for ChoiceDialog states that
If Mathematica is run without a notebook front end, ChoiceDialog gives
choices in a textual form.
Indeed, one ...
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Loading Animation in Manipulate
I'm using Manipulate together with CreateDialog to run a ListPlot whenever I click on a ...
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Restoring previous "Save Selection As..." behavior
I've just upgraded to Mathematica version 11.3 (from 8.0) under MacOS 10.11.5. I noticed that when I "Save Selection As..." or "Save Graphic As...", the pre-filled name is "Untitled" plus the ...
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Force dialogue box to foreground even when Mathematica is minimized
Is there a way to make dialogue boxes to come to the foreground, on top of any other non-Mathematica windows, even when Mathematica itself in running in a minimized background window?
I am using ...
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Mathematica notebook opening off the screen
I have an issue with opening Mathematica notebook. I'm using Student version of Mathematica 12.0 on Windows 10. When I initiate the Mathematica or create a new document from the start page, it opens ...
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Multiple choice ChoiceDialog?
I am looking for a dialog box that opens like a ChoiceDialog but it allows me to choose multiple items from a list and returns that list like ...
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How to fix the alignment of Buttons in ChoiceDialog?
Consider the following example:
ChoiceDialog["Pick one", {1 -> "a", 2 -> "b", 3 -> "c", 4 -> "d"}]
It produces appropriately sized buttons in version ...
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Can't select text in CreateDialog, but can select a Quantity
I'm trying to popup a window with a list of strings that I can then individually select and copy to the clipboard. Using CreateDialog I can select items formatted ...
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Use ChoiceDialog to assign value to a variable within a function
This may be a routine answer that I have overlooked, but I am stumped...
If I want to write a function using ChoiceDialog, how can I use what ChoiceDialog returns (true or false) to either set a ...
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Why can't I execute other commands while the dialog is running?
Bug introduced in v10.4 or earlier and persisting through 11.3
CASE:4226661
The code is from the following video:
http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/video.php?sx=Ian%20Johnson&v=2076
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Set the ClosingSaveDialog to False
I would like to stop Mathematica from showing the "Save Changes To" dialog whenever I try to close a notebook.
I tried changing this from the Option Inspector by setting the losingSaveDialog -> False
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How to open consecutive dialogs [closed]
I am new using mathematica so I would really appreciate your help.
I want to open this dialog:
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Unable to add window title in SystemDialogInput
There appears to be an option called WindowTitle for the SystemDialogInput, but it does not seem to do anything for me:
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Suggestions for how to suspend a programme, while preserving the computations, which takes several days to finish?
I have a programme that needs to run for some time (2 days more or less). I only have access to a laptop, which I must turn off at the end of the day.
I thought of making my programme to export the ...
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Dialog box that "times out" if the user doesn't respond
I want to ask the user (me) to make a binary choice, but also to give myself only 5 seconds in which to respond. In the absence of a response within 5 seconds, I want my code to close the dialog box ...
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DialogReturn evaluated too soon [duplicate]
Why does this module return 11 (as expected) when 'Accept' is clicked:
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Catching "$Canceled" from SystemDialogInput [closed]
Below is a minimal example of a DynamicModule which has a button to call up a SystemDiaglogInput to allow the user to select a directory. If the user selects a directory, then the name of that ...
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Automatically extend ChoiceDialog
Writing:
ChoiceDialog["I dati sui nodi sono già stati inseriti?",
{sì -> 0, no -> 1},
Magnification -> 1.5]
I get:
while ...
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size of images in dialogboxes [duplicate]
I am having issues with the size of multiple images in dialog boxes.
I am trying to create a dialog box that handles three images (red green and blue channels obtained by a microscope) with color and ...
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Creating a dialog window
I would like to create a dialog like the one in the picture:
where by default:
the content of $x_1$, $y_1$, $F_{x1}$, $F_{x2}$, $M_{z1}$ is $0$;
the content of $\theta_{e1}$ is disabled;
the tips ...
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Automatically shift window focus to "Find and Replace"
I'm running 11.1 on UbuntuMate.
Currently when I hit Ctl-F, the "Find and Replace" dialog window appears, but the active window remains the notebook I was in. I'd like to have Mathematica make the "...
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Executable notebooks
Last week I made a code, where I use dialogboxes do create a graphic interface. I want this code to be available to any person that might have or not Mathematica. Is there a way to turn this notebook ...
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How to add a picture inside a dialog box
I looked around the documentation, but didn't found anything that could help me add a picture in a dialogbox. I actually didn't know what should I have been looking for. Furthermore, if it is possible ...
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Better alternatives for GUIkit or dialogboxes?
I'm trying to create a custom interface, where I input equivalent electrical resistances which were previously measured, so I can solve a system of 8 non linear equations using FindRoot to get the ...
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Using tab in a dialog box
I'm doing a program in mathematica with which I have custom interface where I input some previously measured equivalente resistances and calculate the actual resistance, by solving a 8 nonlinear ...
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DateTime Input Dialog in Mathematica
I am trying to create a DateTime input dialog that will return a DateTimeObject
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Authentication dialog for URLDownload / URLSave
Bug introduced in 11.0 and persists through 11.3
The original problem is was fixed in V11.2 but since then it returns File[path/to/file/that/does/not/exits] instead ...
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How to use an event handler inside of a Dialog Notebook
I am designing a tank game in Mathematica for my class and currently I have a tank that can drive along a curve and shoot a point at a set angle, but I want to get all of this into some sort of pup up ...
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How to forbid that Authentication Required windows?
As the Great Firewall,I am hard to access Stack Exchange,So I use VPN.I'm in 11.1.Everytime I open Mathemtica,this windows will pop up when I open my VPN,
But when I close the VPN it will disappear....
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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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Inconsistent Authorization Dialog (401) handling
Bug introduced in V11 and fixed in 11.3
[CASE:3855554] was created
[...] It does appear that the URLRead is not behaving correctly. I have forwarded an incident report to our developers with ...
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How to close a popup window?
I want to give user more information about each function I develop. I want to do that inside a popup window for visual purposes. I do ->
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What is the Kernel waiting for after DialogInput is launched?
Bug introduced in 11.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.2
[...] I was able to reproduce the issue, and consequently, I filed a report with our development team [...]
CASE:3805351
I find this ...
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How to omit the authentification dialog during URLRead?
When I use URLRead
Mathematica will popup a window like:
Actually I have given the parameters Password and ...
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How to create a window which will close in a certain amount of time?
I'm currently making an interface in Mathematica and I'll need to bump a window out and then let it close itself in a certain amount of time.
Here's an short example to illustrate the effect:
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How to refuse close Dialog when press Esc Key
As you can see in the documentation of CreateDialog:
If the dialog contains no DefaultButton or ...
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