Questions tagged [dialog-window]
Dialog windows are special notebook windows of the Mathematica front end.
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Package function doesn't plot math function when given as input
I'm new to Mathematica and I'm trying to learn to write some basic code to create a DialogInput in which the user writes the function to plot.
I'd like to ...
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How to stop continuation if no selection made on radio button bar?
The following returns the user's choice among four items on a radio button bar, but it can also give a null return if they hit "OK" without selecting an option. How to avoid this? How to ...
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Behaviour of OpenerView inside a loop
OpenerView works as expected in this:
OpenerView[{"This is the question", "This is the answer"}, False],
Yet when I put it in a loop, it has no ...
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How to resolve the following problem with DialogInput/PopupMenu?
Consider the following DialogInput:
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How to select only particular values from the list using dialog windows?
Consider some list:
list = {"A","B","C","D"}
How to select only particular values from it using a dynamic dialog window ...
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A question about ChoiceDialog
Consider some test list that I call LongList:
LongList = Table["Some very-very long name", 300];
I would like to use <...
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How to completely control the displayed title of a window?
I can't quite seem to find a way to accomplish this task. I want to display an image in its own window with a custom title. This code almost accomplishes the task:
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How to launch specific section of the Mathematica notebook depending on the dialog choice?
Consider some Mathematica notebook where there is some preliminary code followed by chapters, sections, and subsections that must be evaluated using the code. Say, there are ...
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Enter special character in search box
Usually, I just enter special characters with the Esc key and hence am not familiar with their real code in plain text. But this seems troublesome in the search box ...
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How to get rid of the "You are pasting text into a string..." dialog or skip it?
Consider the following example:
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How to automatically put the keyboard focus in the InputField of a newly created dialog window?
Suppose I want my code to pop up a dialog window containing an InputField and automatically put the keyboard focus there so it's ready and waiting to accept user ...
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Problem With Dynamic[] in Graphics
I'm writing a little function to quickly draw some bezier-curves and lines on diagrams. The function opens a DialogInput. The user can use Locators to draw a line onto the diagram. When the user ...
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Create a dialog inside a palette
I am trying to get better at UI programming, by building a simple greeting.
The user is asked to type his name in a prompt, and Mathematica will then print a greeting using his name:
What is your ...
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