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Re: Help with Alignment for PasteButtons

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  • Subject: [mg89625] Re: Help with Alignment for PasteButtons
  • From: m.r at inbox.ru
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 12, 2:00 am, Syd Geraghty <sydgerag... at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to clean up a GUI for pasting function options with paste  
> buttons.
>
> This is an example of where I am headed:
>
> optionPalette :=
>    PaletteNotebook[{HoldForm[# "Options"],
>       Grid[Partition[PasteButton /@ Options[#], 3]]}] &;
> optionPalette[Graphics]
>
> My 1st question is one of Alignment:
>
> This sorts the options list, aligns it left and gives the PasteButton  
> labels alphabetically in three columns and tries to solve the padding  
> problem (not entirely satisfactorily, buttons 56 & 57 could be  
> unlabeled instead of repeating the start of the list):
>
> clen = Ceiling[Length[Options[Plot]]/3]
>
> Grid[Transpose[Partition[Options[Plot], clen, clen, {1, 1}]],
>   Alignment -> Left]
>
> This generates the PasteButton grid:
>
> clen = Ceiling[Length[Options[Plot]]/3]
>
> Grid[Transpose[Partition[PasteButton /@ Options[Plot], clen, clen, {1,  =

> 1}]]]
>
> How would I align the labels left  vs centered to make reading the  
> PasteButton columns easier?
>
> My 2nd question is how to insert a "," in front of all the pastes to  
> make it even easier to use this GUI to create syntactically correct  
> lists of options for a chosen function?
>
> Note, after a deal of trying this is NOT as easy as it might seem (I  
> think). The alpha lists should be preserved as in
>
>   , AlignmentPoint -> Center
>   , AspectRatio -> 1/GoldenRatio
>   , Axes -> True
>   , AxesLabel -> None
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Cheers .... Syd
>
> Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.
>
> sydgerag... at mac.com
>
> My System
>
> Mathematica 6.0.2.1 for Mac OS X x86 (64 - bit) (March 13, 2008)
> MacOS X V 10.5.2
> MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo  2GB RAM

This should do what you want:

Partition[PasteButton[RawBoxes[RowBox[{",", ToBoxes@ #}]],
      Alignment -> Left]& /@ Options[Plot],
   19, 19, {1, 1}, Null] //
  Transpose // Grid // Deploy

Maxim Rytin
m.r at inbox.ru


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