Creating an application
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- Subject: [mg84462] Creating an application
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:07:32 -0500 (EST)
I just tried to do something that should easily be possible in Mathematica
6. To teach myself about user interfaces in Mathematica 6 I have developed
an application that presents itself to me as various panels / tabbed views /
etc that live in a notebook, and which works very nicely. Now I would like
to turn it into an application that I can run cleanly, with Mathematica
silently doing its work in the background, and not cluttering up my screen
with any window(s) other than the window that my application uses. To keep
things simple, it would be enough for me to create such an application for
my own personal use alone, so it is alright to assume that I have
Mathematica installed on my computer.
For instance, if I build a simple "Hello World", then the notebook
expression looks like this:
Notebook[{
Cell[BoxData[
ButtonBox["\<\"Click Me\"\>",
Appearance->Automatic,
ButtonFrame->"DialogBox",
ButtonFunction:>Print["Hello World"],
Evaluator->Automatic,
Method->"Preemptive"]], "Output",
CellChangeTimes->{3.4076072169189997`*^9}]
},
WindowSize->{206, 152},
WindowMargins->{{44, Automatic}, {74, Automatic}},
FrontEndVersion->"6.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (June 19, \
2007)",
StyleDefinitions->"Default.nb"
]
When I paste this into Mathematica, save the resulting notebook, quit
Mathematica, double-click the notebook I just saved, then it fires up
Mathematica which then loads the notebook, and I am back in the usual
Mathematica environment.
So my question is: How can one fix things so that Mathematica will run
invisibly in support of an application, so that you couldn't even tell that
the application was powered by Mathematica, for instance?
Stephen Luttrell
West Malvern, UK