Re: Notebooks as Forms for input
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- Subject: [mg19066] Re: Notebooks as Forms for input
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:34:54 -0400
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On 2 Aug 1999, Sortech Limited wrote: > I have been looking around for documentation on programming the Mathematica > interface. It looks like Stephen Wolfram got bored writing that part of the > book and decided to concentrate on less commercial aspects! In all fairness, _The Mathematica Book_ does state that the examples are not chosen for their commerical applicability. Quoting from section at the beginning of the book titled "The Scope of the Book": | You should understand, however, that the examples in this book are | chosen primarily for their simplicity, rather than to correspond to | realistic calculations in particular application areas. | | There are many other publications that discuss Mathematica from the | viewpoint of particular classes of applications. In some cases, you may | find it better to read one of these publications first, and read this | book only when you need a more general perspective on Mathematica. | | Mathematica is a system built on a fairly small set of very powerful | principles. This book describes those principles, but by no means spells | out all of their implications. In particular, while the book describes | the elements that go into Mathematica programs, it does not give | detailed examples of complete programs. For those, you should look at | other publications. > The Loan.nb pointed out by Paul Hinton is a pointer to what can be > achieved but I cant see how to program it from what is in The Book. > > Is there a good text out there which guides the user to producing Notebooks > that look like Forms so that they can be used to generate Reports in > Notebooks? For programming the front end and creating dialog boxes, you may want to refer to John Novak's talk materials from the 1998 Worldwide Mathematica Conference. http://library.wolfram.com/conferences/conference98/abstracts/programming_the_front_end.html For creating formatted output, see John McLoone's notebooks from the same conference. http://library.wolfram.com/conferences/conference98/abstracts/report_generation.html -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.