Questions tagged [mathematica-frontend]

Programming the FrontEnd Notebook interface component of Wolfram Mathematica. Dedicated Mathematica SE site: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/

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How to partially change the default stylesheet for the current Notebook

Is there a way to make a minor modification of the default appearance of cells in the current Notebook without specifying the all set of options? For example, I wish to have all Cells with style "Text" in the current Notebook by default having …
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How to modify OUTPUT font type?

Is it possible to change the OUTPUT font type instead of the default one? How? This is my default stylesheet: http://filefactory.com/file/cfc2cb0/n/blueOutput.nb Thanks!
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CellDingbat is below the first line of the Cell

According to the Documentation, "Dingbats are placed to the left of the main contents of a cell, aligned with the first line of the contents." But when I evaluate CellPrint@Cell[BoxData["Text"], CellDingbat -> "CellDingbat"] in a Notebook with the…
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How to create a notebook with a properly formatted expression

I have a Mathematica expression generated by another program, which I would like to open in a notebook, properly formatted. For instance, the other program generates…
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Self-destructive Button inside Column

How to create a Button which will be displayed only when the value of some global FrontEnd setting is False and will self-destruct with entire row of the Column after pressing it setting this value to True? I need something like this: Column[{"Item…
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Styling 3D plots as it was in Mathematica 5

I like quiet and undisturbed color gamut and lighting of 3D plots in Mathematica 5. Is it possible to style 3D plots in Mathematica 7 exactly as it was in Mathematica 5? Plot3D[Sin[x y], {x, 0, Pi}, {y, 0, Pi}, ImageSize -> 360] <<…
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Workaround for \[Conjugate] font bug in Mathematica's linux frontend

Version 8.0.1 of Mathematica has just been released and it didn't fix the bug that has been most annoying me. This is a known bug and WRI promise to fix it "in a future release". Until they do, maybe we can find a workaround. The symbol for…
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Keyboard navigation of cell grouping hierarchy?

I find cell grouping very useful in organizing my notebooks. I've been navigating this hierarchy by clicking with the mouse in the brackets on the right hand side of the notebook, but that's kind of tedious and requires some hand-eye coordination…
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Creating Palette for switching .NB-associations between installed versions of Mathematica

I would like to create a palette for switching .NB-file associations between installed versions of Mathematica under Windows. At this moment I have developed the following code for enumerating installed versions of Mathematica and switching between…
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Two initialization Cells in one Notebook each autosaved in separate .m-file?

Is there a way to create Notebook in which each Initialization Cell will be auto-saved in its own .m-file with arbitrary name? P.S. The question is related to the Mathematica program developed by Wolfram Research Inc. It is not about Mathematics or…
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Where is mathematica help notebook?

I apologize that this isn't a question on how to use Mathematica, but rather where the documentation lies inside the applications folder. During a drag and drop, I happened to drag the Mathematica symbol on the help window (on a Mac) onto the…
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Why normal notebook created from script minimizes automatically?

The code is simple: #!/usr/local/bin/math -script UsingFrontEnd[FE=$FrontEnd]; Unprotect[$FrontEnd]; $FrontEnd=FE; nb= NotebookOpen["/home/src/math/test.nb",Visible->True]; Pause[10] But window of Notebook is first minimized, and when clicked…
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Permanent changing FrontEnd behavior to force aborting evaluation of the full sequence of inputs

This sub-question comes from the question on aborting evaluation of the full sequence of inputs together with previous sub-question. How should we change the file KeyEventTranslations.tr (and/or MenuSetup.tr) to force aborting evaluation of the full…
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Formatting Message arguments

Can anyone explain why the first of these expressions works as expected while the second does not? What is the difference between "number one" and DisplayForm@"number one"? Block[{$MessagePrePrint}, Message[f::event, DisplayForm@"number…
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How to check whether the FrontEnd considers evaluation still running?

Is there a way to check programmatically whether the FrontEnd considers evaluation still running? Or even better: is there a way to check whether the FrontEnd has some pending inputs to be sent to the kernel? P.S. This question has arisen from…
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