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Button action monitored with progress bar
Building on Kubas code here is an alternative which solves some (minor) problems: it will not leave behind scheduled tasks when the abort button is used, it works equaly well when the Alt+. shortcut ...
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Evaluation leak from Dynamic in Button's action
To understand this, look at the typesetting:
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How can I create a help button that looks more "professional"?
Why not just use the graphic in the question, or any other images that you like:
Use ImageSize to control the final size of the button:
An alternative, that I use ...
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How do I add the infobutton in autocomplete that links to the documentation page for package functions?
So I mentioned this in a comment but I'll get it out here for the bounty poster too. Searching for the "JLink`" in the autocomplete directory gave me this:
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How can I create a help button that looks more "professional"?
Here's the general way this type of thing seems to be handled in the built-in things plus code to build the type of buttons you want.
First the button code:
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VoronoiMesh as a TogglerBar
Here are implementations for a MeshTogglerBar and MeshSetterBar based on my answer here (code below). Both implementations use <...
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Using graphics primitives as buttons
It might be easier to build your own button using EventHandler and CurrentValue:
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How can I create a help button that looks more "professional"?
A couple of images that come with Mathematica. Caveat: There's no guarantee that they will be present in all (future) versions.
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Making a Mathematica version of Wordle interactive
This is a very minimal interactive wireframe to get you started.
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Fit text within a button
The following should work well for ordinary text, without any magic numbers or rasterization tricks required:
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In 10.3 System DialogInput execution error
Add Method -> "Queued"
Button["Import File", Import[SystemDialogInput["FileOpen", ".txt"], "List"],
Method -> "Queued"]
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How can I create a "Run all code" button in a notebook?
Here is some code I wrote to make a palette that I use a lot. Maybe the it will work you, or at least give you ideas on how to do it.
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Emulating an up/down button that temporarily changes blue when clicked
You can use two individual instances of Button
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In 10.3 System DialogInput execution error
The code above 9.0 is good
Unfortunately, this is not true. Even in version 9 this code was not good, but it just did not warn you about it. Take this simpler example, that only prints the file-name ...
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How to paste an equation to a graphics
In case you want to plot in place you can use something like:
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How to paste an equation to a graphics
According to the documentation, "PasteButton, evaluates its arguments in an ordinary way, so that expr is immediately evaluated"
It is like you evaluate ...
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How to horizontally center a button in manipulate?
Another way is to use Grid for complex layouts. One drawback is that Delimiter does not work as in the original ...
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How to make Button just works one time
Details aside, TogglerBar seems to fit your needs best:
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Multiple buttons on an Image
Actually, any button is an image. Therefore, you can create graphics background and put the button on it using Epilog->Inset[..] . The insets could be easy ...
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Multiple buttons in a Manipulate: how do I get a good layout?
How about putting everything in the grid? Like so:
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Making a Mathematica version of Wordle interactive
Feel free to take a look at this on the Wolfram community that I did for fun:
a facsimile of Wordle
Moderators: update… I did not see that a link to this was added as a comment above. I am leaving ...
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How to launch a Manipulate (or a function that uses Manipulate) via a Button
Look at the documentation for Button. After clicking the button, the expression in the second argument, named action, gets evaluated. But if you want the result of ...
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Function under Button, need help
I think this is what you are trying to achieve. Just check if the output is correct. One problem is that as you keep on clicking the button the results gets accumulated below the previous one. Note ...
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Error in Manipulate
This is not an answer. It is a long, long way from being an answer. It is a comment that needs to show a lot of code and an image.
Here is your code after some clean up. It doesn't work, but at least ...
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How to horizontally center a button in manipulate?
Place the Button in a Row. Using the dimensions that you have given of 600 for the plot and <...
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Button to close cells
TL;DR
Tell the button where to search, with, e.g. ButtonNotebook:
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