Questions tagged [interface]

Questions on building or modifying user-facing functionality for input, or displaying information.

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Is there a keyboard shortcut for hiding the suggestion bar?

I see that there's a control I can click to hide or "minimize" version 9.0's "suggestion bar". Is there a keyboard shortcut to do this?
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How to make the Mathematica icon flash in the taskbar?

I have a somewhat long computation running in the background. I would like the Mathematica icon on the taskbar to flash once the computation is done. For example, Microsoft Outlook reminders make the taskbar flash: How can I achieve the same effect…
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Automatic Text Adjustment

Continuing the theme of minor interface annoyances, one of the unique features of Mathematica as a text editor is the automatic adjustment of text location as you type. This could be a bit disorienting...Any way to make it stop?
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Save icon in toolbar in v9

In previous versions of MMA there was a 'Save" icon in the toolbar when you do the "Show Toolbar" from the "Window" menu. This is not present in v9. Anybody know how to get it back?
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Can the toolbar be moved to the code window?

Is there any way to move Mathematica's toolbar window so it is just part of the current notebook's window? I usually just work with one notebook at a time and it is pretty annoying to have to have two windows.
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Creating a nested menu with OpenerView

I have a file with the following structure: GAME { version = 0.23.5 linkURL = Mode = 1 PARAMETERS { FLIGHT { CanQuickSave = True CanQuickLoad = True } } SCENARIO { …
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How to get rid of Mathematica 10's help tooltips?

Since Mathematica 10 every time your mouse cursor appears above some function or even variable, an annoying tooltip appears offering help: I've become quite used to Mathematica now and I don't need these tooltips everywhere every second, and I can…
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How to create a notebook that has the form (not function) of the System Information Notebook?

Mathematica's system information display (click Help>AboutMathematica>SystemInformation to see it) is nicely packaged. Is it just a notebook with a TabView and other controls in a notebook with options set to size it just larger than the controls?…
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Deal with sudo/interactive input in StartProcess

Deal with sudo/interactive input in StartProcess There is a example in document page of StartProcess command = ""; process = StartProcess[$SystemShell]; Pause[.1]; processString = ReadString[process, EndOfBuffer]; Column[{ …
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Getting the current status of a FlipView object

Clear["Global`*"]; Table[FlipView[Framed[Style["A", 32, Black, Bold] , ImageSize -> {60, 60}, Alignment -> Center, Background -> #] & /@ Lighter@{Red, Green, Blue}, 1], {4}] Question As the colors change upon clicking, I would like to…
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Why do I get such symbols on the window?

In coding, I get some strange symbols on my window. See the figure attached. My version is v11 and my OS is Windows 7, 64bit. Can I get rid of them?
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Disable Increased Indentation on Open Brackets, Parentheses, Quotes, etc

An interface annoyance, to the otherwise exceptional automatic indentation, is the fact that Mathematica increases the indentation on a line when one opens a bracket, parentheses, quote, etc. I can't seem to find a way to disable only this feature.…
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Mathematica User Interface Tutorial

There I am looking for Mathematica User Interface Tutorial if anyone know Please provide the Link or description UserInface like Importing file using Buttons poping dialog boxes etc. Any help will be appriciated
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Form with FormFunction problem

I've this form: f[a_, b_] := a + b; form = FormFunction[FormObject[<|"a" -> "Number", "b" -> "Number"|>], f[#a, #b] &]; form[] How I can automatically bring up the form after the output display? (If I insert 3 and 2 and I click submit, it return 5.…
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Consistency between Enter keys

The notebook tutorial notes that Shift+Enter needs to be pressed to evaluate input; however, for the number pad, only Enter is required. It appears as though the use of Shift is inverted for the number pad and this inconsistency is rather…
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