Questions tagged [gui-construction]
GUI-construction involves everything that is used to programmatically construct a custom graphical user interface under Mathematica.
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Manipulate: variable localization inside nested `Control`
Below is a piece of my code I have trouble with:
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How Do I Create a Separate Window for my output WITHOUT the usual Windows Title Bar and Scrolling bar
I want to display some output in a separate Window but WITHOUT all the usual Windows accoutrements. I don't want a title bar, I don't want a menu of options, I don't want a scroll bars - I just want a ...
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Dynamically fixing a Control within Manipulate
Consider the following code
Manipulate[x,
Control[{{y, 0, "y"}, {1, 0}}],
Control[{{x, 0, "x"}, {1, 0}, Enabled -> Dynamic[y == 1]}]]
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Is there some way to make Dynamic track only a part of a variable [duplicate]
I often run into a situation like the one exemplified by the code below. The basic idea is to use a single DynamicModule variable as a list or association of values ...
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Problem displaying a window from a menu
I want to display a splash screen directly, but also via a menu.
This is a minimal example
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InputField with carriage return in cloud notebooks?
I'm looking for a way of constructing a multi-line InputField in a cloud notebook. That is, a text field that supports the following five behaviors:
The 'Enter' ...
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How to do field completion in FormFunction?
The control InputField has the option FieldCompletionFunction for showing optional autocompletions (updates a dropdown as you ...
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How to style the frame of the a button?
For certain Appearance options of Button you can control the Background, but how does one ...
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How to pause an Animator with Mouseover?
I would like my Animator to pause when the mouse is not over it. For example, here it continues to update even when it's not moused-over:
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Vanishing function and Manipulate
Within Manipulate, I want to vanish certain controls if other controls satisfy a specific condition. The simplest case is to consider two checkboxes, ...
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Interactive Graph Construction
I'm interested in constructing an interactive GUI graph generator, where I can add and delete vertices and edges.
I'm aware of this question, and this is but a quick follow-up to this answer. I would ...
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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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Inactivate Controls within Manipulate
Given a certain Control object (checkbox, for example) within a Manipulate environment, my goal is to define another control ...
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Changing a diagonal inside a regular $n$-gon when clicked
I am trying to understand the use of Dynamic, DynamicModule, EventHandler, etc. I created an ...
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How to make a Locator3D/LocatorSphere?
On Making a LocatorSphere:
Okay so I'm trying to realize a Locator3D-esque functionality for Mathematica. Something like a <...
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Mouse wheel scrolling doesn't work in Pane inside ExpressionCell
Essentially what the title says - Consider the following example:
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Avoid clipping label in IntervalSlider?
For custom appearances IntervalSlider seems to clip on the right side:
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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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VoronoiMesh as a TogglerBar
Is it possible to use a VoronoiMesh to define a TogglerBar or SetterBar type ...
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A button that creates a cell and evaluates it
Short version: PasteButton will paste its contents at the input cursor. I am looking to create a similar button that will paste something into a new cell and ...
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Avoiding jiggle in palettes
I have a palette containing a Grid with dynamics. As it runs it jiggles horizontally. Here's a minimal example:
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Yet more on Manipulate[] - Formated Input
Suppose I have something like
Manipulate[Plot[Sin[n x], {x, -Pi, Pi}], {n, 20, "Frequency"}]
with a manual input field but I want to accept inputs like ...
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How to make a palette look exactly like a MacOS window?
Is there anyway to style a pallete so that it looks like a native window:
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How to get ListAnimate to click at each step?
It would be nice if, at each step in ListAnimate, there could be a clicking sound to draw attention to the new step.
I hope to use the single click sound sample ...
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Large Dynamic expressions and responsive UI's
I have a ListLinePlot with 40,000 points. When it's displayed on-screen the input fields are not responsive (text appears slowly well after the user is done typing)....
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Interrupt a fit/minimization without interrupting overall evaluation
I have not tried programming this myself yet, so I do not have any example code. Mostly, I am looking for advice on whether I am going to be on the right track if I try something.
Imagine a ...
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How can I make interdependent Checkboxes?
Consider the following code, where I have a list of variables, each with different specified units. In my real case, these lists are not fixed, hence the surrounding Dynamic and the general definition ...
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Dynamic not updating InputField
I'm trying to do some interactive fitting of data using an arbitrary number of the same function (a Gaussian in this case). This means that I also have an arbitrary number of variables and constraints....
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Dynamic InputField with syntax highlighting?
I'm trying to create a notebook where a user can enter a Mathematica expression, and its syntax is analyzed (number of tokens, compressed size, etc.).
Trying this answer,
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Using Switch inside Dynamic with variable number of conditions
I'm trying to create some code that plots a variable number of Gaussians, and allows me to control their parameters using Locators. One locator at the top controls $...
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How do I evaluate “If” statement inside PlotLabel? [closed]
I have an experimental function that is dependent on x and y [f(x,y)=Sin(ax/by)]. I am trying to make a 3D plot of f using the manipulate function so that I can easily input measured values of ...
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How do I make a dynamic nested menu with the MorUI package?
I hope you can help me. I want to make a nested dynamic menu and I used the package MoreUI made by Kuba as a reference Question.
My problem is that I want to add tasks such as:
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Graphics Primitive Selector
Goal and motivation
I want to build something that would intuitively work like:
Graphics @ PaneSelector[{True -> something, False -> {}}, Dynamic @ show]
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Menu object in a notebook that will print text in a new cell
I would like to get an output text when I select every option of popup menu, the input below print me the option but outside the cell displaying panel generated with Manipulate. I have been trying ...
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How to create a button that adds InputFields when clicked?
I would like to create a button 'ADD' that creates a new InputField each time the user clicks it.
I have tried something like this so far:
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Access system selection colour
On some operating systems it is possible to customize selection colours and other GUI colours. I have set yellow for mine:
Is it possible to retrieve this colour in Mathematica, so that it can be ...
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Problem with PopupMenu: Its values don't update dynamically
I have a problem with PopupMenu inside DynamicModule, its values don't update dynamically as they supposed to. The example below ...
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Dynamic Linkage of LocatorPane and InputField
How do I get the InputField to coordinate with the LocatorPane so that a change in each control changes the other to be in agreement? It would be nice if the function was self-contained and was ...
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IntervalSlider and updating function specification
IntervalSlider seems to ignore Dynamic's second argument:
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How can I make Graphics objects clickable?
I have created a list (listA) that specifies disks based on color, center point, and radius:
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Creating a GUI for a classifier
I developed the following code which is suitable for cloud deployment. However, in order to avoid the problems of the cloud, I would like to create an user interface that runs in a Mathematica ...
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Context menu in CDF Player
Using Style with the option ContextMenu or AttachedCell it is possible to create context ...
