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General guidelines and best practices for Mathematica usage and programming.

36 votes
2 answers
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Custom atomic expressions - modern tutorial

More are coming with each new release, yet there is no official source of guidelines / tutorials about how users could create their own. …
15 votes
2 answers
359 views

Hold attributes vs performance

Is there a reason to use Hold* attributes for functional code (e.g. no intention to mutate input)? I'd expect performance gains as in pass by value vs pass by reference. E.g. data = RandomReal[1, …
30 votes
5 answers
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Unexpected behaviors in built-in functions

Existence of this topic is discussed in this mathematica.meta post. I'm sure I am not the only non-beginner in WL who from time to time finds themselves not being able to predict an outcome of a spec …
6 votes
1 answer
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Conditional rendering of items

Let's say I have a column to display and each of its items can be hidden separately. Question: Is there a way to make it work without re-rendering whole column whenever a particular item is hidden? W …
14 votes
2 answers
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Wolfram Cloud deployment obstacles

What are official restrictions about FormFunctions/general deployment contents? There are problems with many things which sometimes I have workarounds for but I see no general pattern. Edit: I mov …
5 votes
0 answers
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Handling rendering delays gracefully

I moved the second issue to a separate topic: 162013 Please run the code sample As you can see there is a delay between the moment the calculation is finished and when the graphics is shown. And duri …
13 votes
1 answer
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How to create (Header + Main area + Settings pane) notebook layout

The very bottom of CellMargins is missing Further reading Guidelines for planning custom GUI in Mathematica …
20 votes
1 answer
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Is building an event-based parser possible/reasonable in Mathematica (WL)?

Too long? Go to Problems section Background I like to learn by doing small, sometimes artificial, projects. Among other things I had 'parsers', and 'stream methods / streams in MMA' on my to learn l …
14 votes
1 answer
308 views

Clean package update for API/FormFunctions on Wolfram Cloud

Cross posted on community.wolfram.com (new comments) TLDR There is a pool of kernels/sessions available for each user, you don't have control over the pool only over specific kernel you currently ev …
15 votes
1 answer
356 views

Working with DynamicModule: SetDelayed + OwnValues

Shortly, definitions in form of e.g. x:= RandomReal[] have to be avoided inside DynamicModule[{x}, ...]. Why?, this Prints immediately: DynamicModule[{x}, x := Print[1]; {}] It hit us hard in the pas …
6 votes
1 answer
139 views

How to work with BoxOptions (ButtonBoxOptions, PanelBoxOptions, etc.)

The main question is in the title. Here are subtopics I'd like to focus on: Is there a tutorial related to them anywhere in documentation? How can I check what are current values of e.g. ButtonBoxOp …
70 votes
2 answers
2k views

Guidelines for planning custom GUI in Mathematica

What is on topic here Links to guidelines making GUI creation process more stable, predictive. Links to guidelines on how to achieve robust dynamic performance of GUI-s. …
11 votes
1 answer
217 views

Nested association values validation. POJsO handling

Sometimes it is convenient to work in your package/app with "objects" like: childObject = <| "id" -> 284, "text" -> "texttext", "property" -> <| "type" -> "String", "content" -> "test" …
4 votes
0 answers
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RealDigits and functional style

So while thinking about Replacing numbers of which you only know certain digits I have faced, again, a problem that I find hard to extract from RealDigits' output something I want, what should be natu …
10 votes
2 answers
410 views

Naming convention for symbols exported from package

I know this is a little opinion based, but so is Mathematica style guide and similar topics. The issue is important so I think this topic will be beneficial for future visitors. Q: So lowerCaseFunc …