Questions tagged [undocumented]
Questions on undocumented functionality of Mathematica. Note that such functions might be subject to change without notice in future versions.
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Is there a "GrabHand" and "OpenHand" MouseAppearance in Mathematica?
MouseAppearance[Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 5}], "LinkHand"]
Unfortunately I cannot get a screen grab to show the link hand but it is a cartoon hand with a finger ...
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How to get a list of available appearance/styles/Methods?
This is a basic question but I haven't found any answer yet :/
Available appearances for Button[] are mentioned in Help, those ...
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How can we extend the predictive interface so it can suggest new operations? [duplicate]
Introduction
Mathematica 9 has introduced a new predictive interface. For each output, it suggest possible actions the user might want to take.
How can this interface be extended so that it will ...
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What are \[InvisiblePrefixScriptBase] and \[InvisiblePostfixScriptBase]?
In the non-printing characters documentation, I see two named characters that are largely undocumented: \[InvisiblePrefixScriptBase] and ...
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How can I know if a pattern corresponds to a string pattern?
What would be the best way to detect if a pattern corresponds to a string pattern ?
An invalid string pattern p would lead to an error in ...
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Specifying a graphics object for the width of a median marker
In a previously posted question VLC used the element specification
{"MedianMarker", filledCircle[10], Black}
in a box and whisker chart, where
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The only usage for the option InterpolationOrder in NDSolve is to be set to All?
We know that changing the option InterpolationOrder in ListLinePlot、ListPlot3D、...
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What is the complete list of valid FrontEnd Packet types?
In response to my question How can I get the unchanged Box form of an arbitrary expression? John Fultz answered with a method using the hilariously named ...
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What does "EquationalLogic`FindCounterexample[]" do?
I found the undocumented EquationalLogic`FindCounterexample[] by browsing the lists of available symbols, but I have no clue about its purpose.
The name is ...
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What Method options does FindInstance accept?
While answering Trouble getting FindInstance to return multiple results for certain constraints it became clear that for this problem FindInstance would be better ...
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TeXToBoxes and BoxesToTeX BoxRules options
A recent question has gotten me to look more into the tex conversion rules. Consider the following latex string:
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In InputField, how to prevent Shift-Return from generating a new cell?
When running the following in a notebook (not a deployed CDF file), it can sometimes be annoying that accidentally pressing Shift-Return breaks out of the user ...
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How do I find all the possible events that work with EventHandler?
The EventHandler documentation, More Information section, lists 5 mouse events:
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Is using undocumented functionality a Bad Idea™?
Mathematica has a lot of very useful undocumented features. For example a hash table, a built-in list of compilable functions, additional options to CurrentValue, ...
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What is the meaning of the last argument passed to the ColorFunction of a ParametricPlot3D?
According to the docs, the meaning of the arguments passed to ParametricPlot3D is $x, y, z, u, v$. This is 5 arguments: the Cartesian coordinates and the two ...
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Question about collections of custom GUI controls for Mathematica
Background: I have only recently begun programming GUIs in Mathematica, so I have a continuous need for custom controls. I needed a scrollable list control and with the help of Google I found a ...
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Does Mathematica support variable frame rate for any video format, in analogue of GIF-style "DisplayDurations"?
The good old GIF animation format allows us to set the duration of each individual frame in the animation separately. This is especially useful if some frames in ...
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Is there a way to have a Tooltip for non-editable raster graphics produced by MakeBoxes?
I have a function which produces a large object I would like to hide. Formatting is of course an option but I'm hoping for something a little more meaningful using raster graphics and ...
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Internal "Periodical" functions in version 7
In version 7 there exist these Internal` context functions:
?Internal`*Periodical*
AddPeriodical ...
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What is the complete list of valid Front End Tokens?
What is the complete list of valid Front End Tokens? Preferably, by version number.
Keywords: FrontEndToken, ...
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Items known by CurrentValue
CurrentValue can be used to poll the state of numerous system values such as the mouse position. Its help page doesn't list all possible items, though. An item like ...
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Bags and non-standard evaluation
What can internally be happening here? Is the evaluator just messing with us and going non-standard because it's a Bag? Or am I just not seeing how something like ...
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Internal`Bag inside Compile
Since Internal`Bag, Internal`StuffBag and Internal`BagPart can be compiled down, it is a ...
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Undocumented syntax of FilledCurve [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Undocumented form for FilledCurve[]
A nice trick to get the outline paths of letters is to use the PDF exporter/importer
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What are some useful, undocumented Mathematica functions?
There have already been some questions about some undocumented functionality in Mathematica. Such as (please add to these lists!)
How can one find undocumented options or option values in Mathematica?...
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Undocumented form for FilledCurve[]
New in Mathematica 8 is FilledCurve (and its cousin JoinedCurve). The docs state that this function can take a list of segments ...
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How can one find undocumented options or option values in Mathematica?
Mathematica has a lot of undocumented or poorly documented options.
How does one go about working out if there is an undocumented option that might solve a particular problem?
How does one work out ...