Re: Toolbar
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- Subject: [mg105660] Re: Toolbar
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:06:16 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
On 12/13/2009 4:48 AM, Istv=E1n wrote: > Dear All, > > Is it just me or others as well would appreciate a toolbar in Mathematica? > I've missed it at the first time I've encountered Mathematica 4, but, since > then, I've simply got used to the routine to kill the kernel or delete all > output using key-combinations. I wonder why there is no useful toolbar at > all, with these functionalities, and perhaps more. This is a must for all > interactive interfaces from decades now. Palettes are good, but actually > I never use them, knowing how to access characters and code. And even if > I write a palette to sport the buttons "Kill kernel", "Delete output", I > cannot dock it in the main window, below the file menu. For me it seems > so obvious to have a toolbar, but I don't remember seeing any info or post > about it in the group. Am I missing something here? Well, there is the Edit toolbar, which I set in the Options Inspector to be always on, but there isn't a lot on it, and I don't use it as much as I used to, now that we have context menus. It would be nice to have a customizable toolbar where one could put buttons for Abort Evaluation, Delete All Output, Evaluate Notebook and the like. -- Helen Read University of Vermont