Questions tagged [palettes]

In Mathematica, a palette is a notebook with a collection of controls such as buttons. They can be used to perform many actions in Mathematica, including entering typesetting characters, styling notebooks, and performing evaluations.

In Mathematica, a palette is just a notebook with a collection of controls such as buttons. A uniquely powerful consequence of Mathematica's unified design is that a symbolic specification, easily built up by a program, can immediately be deployed as an active palette.[1]

Palettes are like extensions of your keyboard. They can be used to perform many actions in Mathematica, including entering typesetting characters, styling notebooks, and performing evaluations. As with any notebook, creating palettes can be done with a menu item or programmatically.[2]

How To Use Palettes

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A palette of accumulated expertise

I've been trying to put together a palette of useful functionality garnered from this site. There is useful stuff scattered all over the place, for example: Post an image Copy code Duplicate a notebook Paste a table As an ugly, yet functional,…
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Can palettes dock to notebooks?

Over on Meta: A wishlist for Mathematica I got an interesting comment on the following suggestion and thought it merited a stand alone question: re: NOTEBOOK INTERFACE USABILITY & ORGANIZATION Dock palettes -- When I use palettes, I'd love the…
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Some windows go off display

(I'm navigated from stackoverflow.com where I asked almost the same question) When I want to use additional windows, let's say for example "Basic Math Input", I feel reluctant to find visually where they are in the display. So I tend to "re-open"…
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Behavior of code changes after a palette is installed

Please consider the toy code here: CreatePalette[DynamicModule[{var}, Button["Generate Random Number", randstuff[var], ImageSize -> Medium, Method -> "Queued"]], {Initialization -> (randstuff[var_] := DynamicModule[{}, …
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Mathematica palettes in Wolfram Desktop

Apparently Wolfram Desktop is missing some useful palettes. How can I install them properly? Where would I download Writing Assistant from for example?
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Palette to highlight a part of an Input expression

Teaching my grandson mathematics in the online regime through Skype, I show him my screen on which a Mathematica notebook is open. I use it to give him tasks by writing simple arithmetical expressions (according to his age) in the Input Cells. Then…
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Will the Wolfram Cloud products have a palette function?

I am going to use the Wolfram Cloud for my class. Will the Wolfram Cloud products have a palette function?
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Misbehaving palettes

The behavior I am describing below may be OS specific, so I start by saying this is on Win7 x64. I'd like to have the Special Characters palette always available, and appearing on startup. However, I want it to appear in a specific position,…
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How to get the full Basic Math Assist palette

I find that in the latest version of Mma and Windows the Basic Math Assist palette cuts off all the useful functions (see image below). The only fix I have found is to close the tiny window and click on Palettes/Basic Math Assist. How do I directly…
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Classroom Assistant Will Not Expand Horizontally With Magnification

Being of advanced age I need magnification of tool bars, symbols etc. I get this for all palettes except Classroom Assistant. If I set a magnification that occurs but there is no horizontal increase of the palette size---so if what you need is on…
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Change the Image Margins of a Toggler Dynamically

I am making a unit palette for myself in Mathematica 11.3, and am planning on making a column of togglers for the sections. Toggler[ Text[Style["Physics Constants", 24, Italic]], {Text[Style["Physics Constants", 24, Italic]], …
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Custom File Palette

I find the default Mathematica IDE lacking. I am missing a simple project file tree on the left (as in eclipse, visual studio etc.) The following would be very cool: All your files (in a given directory) would be displayed in a Mathematica Palette.…
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