Re: How do I make my own pallettes
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- Subject: [mg17174] Re: How do I make my own pallettes
- From: paulh (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:53:17 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In article <7f9iu6$56q at smc.vnet.net>, Voyager_2 at cable.A2000.nl (Jeffrey A. Soesbergen) writes: > How can I make my own pallettes in Mathematica? > > For example, I want a button containing the actions > > <<Algebra` > > and > > InequalitySolve` > > Everytime I have to type this, but I want to make a button > of it, but how must I do this? The general subject of button programming in Mathematica is a topic that could consume a lot of bandwidth. I would encourage you to review the short summary of buttons that can be found 2.10.6 in _The Mathematica Book_ (Third Edition). If you read documentation through the Help Browser, you can paste this expression in a notebook and evaluate it. FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup["MainBook", "2.10.6"]] Then go download a copy of the ButtonBox HOWTO that demonstrates the act of designing a nontrivial button through start to finish. http://www.mathsource.com/Content/General/Tutorials/Programming/0209-809 The type of button you describe evaluates an expression in the kernel rather than a front end. That means that it is important to set the ButtonEvaluator option to something other than it's default value of None. ButtonBox[ "Load Algebra`InequalitySolve`", ButtonFunction :> Needs["Algebra`InequalitySolve`"], ButtonEvaluator -> "Default", Active -> True ] // DisplayForm This should generate a button with the first argument as the label of the button. The ButtonFunction specifies what operation is to be performed when the button is clicked. The ButtonEvaluator is set to be the the front end's default evaluator, and setting Active to be True guarantees that the button is turned on. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.