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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Using Manipulate for initial guess to nonlinear fitt, feed the result back to Manipulate (and repeat) for a general model with indexed parameters
I have been trying to put toghether a visual method to help fit experimental data with peaks. I have stumbled upon this answer which is very similar to where I got. But it is not sufficiently general ...
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Multiparameter GUI with button-driven update
I would like to be able to evaluate a function based on multiple Slider values by pushing a Button that creates the function, ...
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Setting FrontEnd`$ControlActive in EventHandler
Is it possible to emulate the behaviour of ControlActive[] for an ordinary
Control[] when implemented by an ...
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Grid Problem: Combining Item[] with SpanFromLeft/Above
I'm trying to lay-out a Grid with various entry-specific Frame settings. In my case, using ...
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Array of checkboxes in manipulate with labels
I'm attempting to create a grid of models by datasets checkboxes with labels on the the top and bottom(with an empty in the top ...
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How to check that a user-input of a list of CellObject-s actually belong to the EvaluationNotebook?
Suppose a user inputs a list of CellObject-s to operate on. How might one check these objects to determine if they actually belong to the ...
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Don't understand actionmenu
This works fine to get domain from a dropdown, but I wrote it years ago, and although I thought I understood it, I clearly don't because I can't get rid of pure functions to make it work at all. I ...
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How to Build an Interaction GUI that Interrupts Calculation?
I would like to construct a GUI using just the Mathematica language that allows me to start and stop a calculation interactively with the press of buttons. I have set up the following to show what I ...
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Message created when calling GraphicsArray from inside a CreateDialog[]-Window
When writing a little gui for convenient access to some functions of a package, I encountered the following problem:
Some button calls a function of the package, which creates some graphics. Even ...
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How might one create a Button that wraps everything hilghlighted with mouse with double quotes similar to Comment/Uncomment?
I find typing doublequotes around characters to create strings a bit annoying because it always slows me down. The doublequotation marks lie right at my achilles heel on keyboards. It's too close to ...
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How do I include additional kinds of boxes that are Tab-selectable
Observe that "PlaceHolder" and InputFieldBox are known by the FE to respond to pressing the Tab key:
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The new Default Toolbar in 13.1 may have a bug in which a label appears over it. Can label be removed?
This post does not ask how to stop new toolbar from appearing but how to remove the described label above it.
I finally installed 13.1 and to my surprise Wolfram added a new ...
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How is the zoom tooltip in the "Coordinates Tool" implemented?
I notice that the built-in "Coordinates Tool" has a very efficient zoom tooltip displaying an enlarged portion of the image along with coordinates and row/column indices:
How to get the ...
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How to incorporate ResourceFunctions to autocomplete
Edit: As mentioned in the comments below, typing just ResourceFunction["Mo"] results in a list of ResourceFunctions that have a name that starts with Mo. This is good enough for me although ...
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Using graphics primitives as buttons
I am trying to use graphics primitives as buttons, but can't do it unless I rasterise first:
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Dynamic 2-state toggle button difficulty returning to original state
I had this working fine this morning, but I proceeded to refactor, and somehow I cannot get it to toggle like before. It does initialize, and it does go from state-1 to state-2 but not back to state-1....
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How to set minimal allowed size for a graphical element?
Starting from version 10.3 there is a documented way to specify a maximum allowed size for a graphical element via UpTo:
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InputField - change text alignment to center
Is it possible to align text in InputField Right/Centered?
(Seems Left is default)
Seems there is no alignment option for InputField.
What I want is center - More specifically, Real-time centered : I ...
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A very simple Dynamic Button label is not updating when state changes
Just when I thought I had Dynamic tackled for most non-complex controls, this comes along and makes a mockery of me. So what the ...
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Fit text within a button
Column[Table[
Button["ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS", Null,
ImageSize -> i], {i, {50, 100, 150, 200}}]]
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As in the above example, Mathematica ...
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How can I change fractions as tick labels with real numbers?
When using HorizontalGauge or VerticalGauge the scale divisions are frequently labels with fractions (1/5, 2/5) etc., which looks terrible and is hard to read. I have not found a way to force labels ...
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Displaying ActionMenu Choices Programmatically
Executing the following code creates an ActionMenu:
ActionMenu["Menu", {"temp1" :> Print[1], "temp2" :> Print[2]}]
If you move ...
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Dynamically Center a Control in Manipulate
I am attempting to dynamically horizontally center a button above the plot window in a manipulate. For example,
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inputting a binary matrix via buttons
I want to input a binary matrix via buttons as in the following code:
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Sortable Grid-like control for large data sets?
I've been using a roll-your-own function for a while that's a wrapper around Grid which adds a couple things I always use, like headers, dynamic sorting, filtering, and clipping (only showing the ...
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A standalone notebook that just shows a Manipulate and hides all other code?
I have a complex notebook with one cell that contains a bunch of initial definitions, several modules, and finally a Manipulate object. For a simple example take
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Exporting specific frame of ListAnimate
Imagine I have a certain list of Graphics-type objects that I then incorporate into ListAnimate
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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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Setting automatic dividers when merging groups
Imagine I have my code split into multiple sections, like so
Suppose I now select all cells and merge them, getting
Is it possible to automatic set a divider between the different code sections? I'm ...
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Deleting all outputs on Notebook close
Is is possible to set up a Mathematica notebook so that all outputs are automatically deleted when the notebook is closed? I was trying to look for some function like ...
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Making Static Buttons
Is it possible to get a button that remains still when clicked? That is, it does not show the temporary pressed frames
This also happens when I set ...
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Changing Slider Style [duplicate]
Is there any option to customize the Slider tracker to an image or a Graphics object? What about simply changing its colour? For ...
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Grid's automatic resizing
Imagine I have a dynamic opener that changes the number of rows. For example,
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Button changes in 12.3 [closed]
In the new 12.3 version I noticed a change in how buttons react to the Background option. For instance, take
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How to make a better self-closing toolbar button that always works?
My DockedCellstoolbar has a self-closing button that sometimes decides to permanently stop working on that particular notebook. closing and reopening file always ...
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Manipulate delimiter between control and content
Is it possible to stylize Manipulate so that there is a line separating the control and the content? The code
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Creating a Button to evaluate initialization cells
I am trying to create a setup where I have a number of InputField, SetterBar, and Checkbox ...
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External Dynamic Control with Manipulate
I want to have dynamic controls that depend on other controls. For example, the code
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How to create a bootstrap style InputField?
I am trying to create a bootstrap style InputField in Mathematica. Here is what I've done so far:
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symbols in a function to "take on" the values of controls with the same names in Manipulate
(** I want the symbols a1... in f1... to "take on" the values of the controls with the same names in Manipulate[Plot[f1[3,"a"],{x,1,3}],{a1,0,1},{a2,0,1},{a3,0,1}]. Here's what I'...
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Can I plot *after* setting slider values?
I have some fundamental misunderstanding of the use of Mma's GUI elements, and I would appreciate some guidance. I would like to be able to set up a calculation based on slider values and then press ...
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Using button to display a data table
Here is the code I have tried:
Button["Click to show table", Grid[data]]
Is there a way to do this, so the user can click a button to show the data table?...
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Get symbol at mouse position
How can I get the symbol which is under the mouse pointer at any time?
I know that I can get the mouse position with MousePosition[] and dynamically with ...
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How do I fully specify settings for an image to be used as a GaugeMarker?
I have designed a ClockGauge and wish to use three different images for the hour, minute and second hands.The images are not rectangular and are not symmetrical. The code used is below:
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Panel, Pane, and Framed Alignment - Clipped Images, Negative Margins, ContentPadding
I'm trying to tightly wrap some expressions in containers (could be Panel, Pane, maybe Framed...
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Making a GUI similar to Documentation Center
This is an offshoot of how to create a menu as the Documentation Center?...
My aim is to build a menu that functions kind of like the documentation center...a grid of rectangles, each with a dropdown ...
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