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How can I make controls have Button-like behaviour?
The Button control is very easy to understand
Button["Press Me", Print["Pressed"]]
I press the button, I execute the ...
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Making a multiple choice button
I've written the following code to create a multiple choice button that takes an arbitrary number of answer options and will assign a variable true/false depending on whether or not the correct choice ...
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Altering layout and sizing of Manipulate controls?
I'm currently working on a display project using Manipulate and was wondering if there is a straightforward way to alter the placement of the control options that I ...
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Manipulate Slider over discrete collection. Keyboard control.
I would like to create a Manipulate slider that iterates over a discrete set of items. Something like the following
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Remove controls in Animate with exception of PlayPauseButton
I'd like to retain the PlayPauseButton in the Animate and remove all other Controls ...
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Listing properties of a control?
I have been trying to style a TabView like in the examples on the Wolfram CDF site, where they have custom sizes and backgrounds with images or gradients, but I am ...
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How to set the slider width inside Manipulate
I use the code below to visualise the connection between a sine curve and the unit circle, but would like to make the slider wider, so it has at least almost the same with as the image. I have tried ...
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manipulate: time limit on calculations [duplicate]
I'd like to disable the 5 second time limit in the manipulate construct. I read about setting
SynchronousUpdating -> False
But for some reason this does ...
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Detecting change of a variable (detect mouse clicks)
I want to do something when the mouse is clicked. But it shouldn't matter where the mouse is clicked, so I can't use EventHandler. Instead, I'm trying to do it like ...
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Is this a bug in ListPicker?
I use Mathematica v9.0.1 Home Edition. I recently modified some code to take advantage of the ListPicker Manipulate control (new ...
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How can I create a table of sliders?
I'm trying to do the following:
I have a table:
w = Table[ToExpression[ToString[h] <> ToString[i]], {i, 1, Length[c]}]
This table is suposed to generate ...
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Can one affect the appearance of components of a control?
I'd like to control the appearance of the components of a TabView[] control.
Such a control appears constructed of Buttons, ...
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Using a MacBook's builtin sudden motion sensor with Manipulate
With the following code I can get the value of the "Sudden Motion Sensor", which is build into MacBooks:
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Estimate Imagesize of any given Particular Control object?
I make different controls(InputFields,Text,panel, etc) in my code for which the corresponding code is below.
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Difference between action of a Slider and a HorizontalGauge
First time posting. I am working on creating some interactive materials for the engineering classes that I teach and have run into an issue that I cannot puzzle out. I am using a slider to allow for a ...
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What are Controlling and Computing Processes?
My wolfram user portal claims that I have 2 controlling processes and 8
computing processes.
Mousing over the question mark gives me some information, but I still don't fully understand what this ...
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How to save Manipulate bookmarks permanently?
I would like to save current Manipulate parameter values to load them again later. Bookmarks (previously discussed here and here) work fine until the cell is ...
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Manipulate[]'ing complex roots of an equation using a 2D slider [closed]
I want to make a demonstration of how the complex roots of a polynomial change when I alter the coefficients. Here is my attempt:
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How can I align the labels of the buttons on a setter bar to the button centers?
I tried to align the labels on the buttons of a SetterBarto the button centers. This is my code:
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Using Control Objects with TabView [duplicate]
I have a number of different tabs on my 'dashboard'. Each tab has a few different Controls (drop down boxes) that the user makes selections with. These selections determine what is displayed on the ...
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How to change FieldSize to be the same as dropdown menu width in PopupMenu?
I've tried the following code to change the FieldSize but I can't make it equal the actual value of MenuSize and I tried to ...
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How can I control the behavior of a Manipulate with check boxes and radio buttons?
I've been stuck for a long time on this problem, and I really would appreciate if somebody helps me move in the right direction.
I have two functions and each can take one of two forms. I am ...
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ControlsRendering and operating systems
Controls, such as those appearing in Manipulate constructs, are by default rendered depending on the operating system. Wrapping everything in ...
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Can I select or implement a Manipulate bookmark from an arbitrary control?
I understand how I can select a bookmark from the "+" menu of a Manipulate. Is there a way to select a bookmark from an arbitrary control, or define a control that ...
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Creating Multi-Tabbed Grid with Preserved Contents and Overview Grid
I am in the process of creating an application/panel that will aide me in scheduling hours for my staff of ten or more. I am hoping to create a multi-tabbed grid within which I may collect data about ...
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Placing Manipulate controls in multiple columns
I have a Manipulate construct with a square Graphic on the left side and all the controls placed on the right side. There are so ...
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How do I Export through a standard system file save dialog activated by a Button?
As near as I can tell, Export cannot be configured through arguments or options, to present a standard system file save dialog to the user, so that he can specify a ...
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How do I constrain the region where I can drag a Locator?
How do I constrain the region where I can drag a Locator to conform to rules, including rules that apply to computations resulting from the value of the ...
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Enabled option for slider in Manipulate not updating dynamically
In a Manipulate expression I have a slider control which has the Enabled option
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“Masking” an InputField
In building an assignment for my class, I would like set up an InputField, where they will enter a function. I was wondering if there was a way to "continuously" check if their function is being ...
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How can I completely remove the ListAnimate controls?
I want to use ListAnimate to show an animation but I want to remove the slider and all of the buttons from the top and show the animation panel only. There is an ...
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How to link a button to a manipulate play
I am wondering how I can link a button to the play button shown if you expand "Show Animation Control",
So something like,
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How to force native styling of controls?
While preparing a dynamic module, I discovered a weird behaviour of Mathematica's controls when you rotate them:
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