Single most useful dynamic/interactive capability in Mathematica?
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- Subject: [mg83038] Single most useful dynamic/interactive capability in Mathematica?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:11:18 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Stanford University
Q. What would be _the_ single _most useful_ dynamic or interactive
capability that might be added to Mathematica?
A. The ability to sort an already completed and displayed table on
any column, simply by clicking on the top of that column, as one
can do on the columns of Finder windows in List view in the Mac.
Refinement: Ability to toggle the associated sort order for that
column (sorting the entire table, of course) by repeatedly clicking
at the top of that column.
Alternative: An option ("InteractiveSort->False/True") that could
be added to the Table (or TableForm) command that would
implement this capability for a given table with no further
programming.
[Apologies if this or something equivalent to it exists and I've missed
it; I did make a quick scan through the lists of new features and the
Interactive/Manipulate descriptions on the Wolfram web pages.]