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Programming the fiver game
In this case I don't know how to post something helpful without providing full code so I'll just do that and hope this wasn't homework. My emphasis is on clarity (hopefully) rather than brevity or ...
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UI performance with large image data
A lot can be tweaked, but it is hardly ever straightforward:
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
Here is a very crude first implementation (code at the bottom):
(note that the updated version is called as `dragDropList[Dynamic@l)
Some notes:
The black box serves both as insertion marker and as ...
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Minesweeper: How to Dynamic a lot of graphics with high-speed?
The issue with such multicontroller dynamic interfaces is that one usually wants to store the state of all controllers in one variable for convenience (e.g. store status of position ...
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Creating a simple Dock Cell that Fades In when Cursor Hover Over It
Edit: Fading overlay window
In order to get a top dock element with real transparency, one can create a window that overlays the current notebook window and adjusts its position together with it.
<...
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
I once approached this. I never finished it so let me know if you face any issues:
ResourceFunction["GitHubInstall"]["kubapod", "mgui"]
<< MGUI`
And here ...
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Visually permute rows of a matrix via mouse dragging
EDIT: converted the use of explicit Hold wrappers to appropriate HoldAll and HoldFirst ...
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Working with DynamicModule: SetDelayed + OwnValues
J. Fultz' answer indicates that it is not a bug but a feature which needs better documentation.
Get a habit of defining your procedures with [], e.g. ...
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Allow multiple GUI elements to react dynamically to interaction with a single element
n = 120;
names = Range[n];
pts = AssociationThread[names -> N@CirclePoints[n]];
edges = RandomSample[Subsets[names, {2}], 250];
There are two reasons why ...
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Animating a Potential Function (eigenfunctions of Laplace's equation)
The fix is to move Animate outside of LocatorPane, but let's go couple of steps further:
I turned Eigenvalues procedure into a ...
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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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How to create Right-Click ActionMenu at mouse position?
Both solutions are undocumented but I don't think they will go away. Menu/MenuItem are used internally for a long time and ...
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How is the zoom tooltip in the "Coordinates Tool" implemented?
Here's a proof-of-concept demonstration of how to build your own tooltip with reasonable performance:
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Guidelines for planning custom GUI in Mathematica
Things to keep in mind when developing complex GUI in Mathematica:
Wolfram System general issues:
Styles management/inheritance system (StyleSheets and friend)
It is complicated, full of exceptions ...
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How can I get a FileNameSetter-like dialog inside my own custom dialog?
Not perfect but a good start.
Openers expand/collapse trees but it does not affect the preview pane. Clicking on the directory name does.
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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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switch between automatic and manual updating
Edit
Can you think of another way to accomplish the same thing [...]? It would be nice to have a solution that didn't involve duplicating each slider.
-nibudd
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Constraining locators in a locator pane to a specified data set
Use Nearest[]:
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Create dynamically Manipulate buttons to come back to current parameters
Here's my go at it. I used a SetterBar with a Dynamic list of presets, since it implements a ...
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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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How is the zoom tooltip in the "Coordinates Tool" implemented?
Answering the first part of my question (thanks to Lukas Lang for pointing me in the right direction!).
The source code for the Image Assistant Toolbar that appears when you select ...
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Programming the fiver game
Here is a version that uses only the Front End, which can be verified using LinkSnooper. This is mostly a useless optimisation/exploration.
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Generating graphs interactively (GUI)
IGraph/M 0.6 includes IGGraphEditor[], an interactive editor for creating graphs. Here's an example of it in use:
This project is still in experimental stage, and ...
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How to make a Locator3D/LocatorSphere?
Here's something to get you started with a new design.
First we make the function that actually makes a DynamicModule. It supports having more than just a sphere ...
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Dynamically Center a Control in Manipulate
We make plot image size a control variable and use the (undocumented) Method option "ControlAreaDisplayFunction" to ...
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