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What's the effect of SyntaxForm option in StandardForm boxes of Superscript?
Consider the following sample:
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How do I include additional kinds of boxes that are Tab-selectable
Observe that "PlaceHolder" and InputFieldBox are known by the FE to respond to pressing the Tab key:
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Context menu to graphics component
How do I add individual context menus (shown upon secondary mouse click) to various components of a graphics object without needing to go into edit mode?
Consider the following example:
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How to detect errors that happen in the FrontEnd? [duplicate]
Some errors only seem to be produced at the point of typesetting, making it very difficult to detect them early. For example:
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How to explicitly open or close cell group?
There is a "OpenCloseGroup" in FrontEndTokenExecute. It act like toggle. If the selected cell group is open, ...
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Turning off automatic hyperlinks
Recently (I only noticed in V12.2), website URLs, such as https://www.wolfram.com, became active in text cells in notebooks. The "hot" nature makes the links hard to edit, since any click ...
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In search of lost time: Mathematica keyboard shortcuts
I am wondering about all the shortcuts that there are in Mma, besides the documented ones in https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/KeyboardShortcutListing.html.
Are there any undocumented ...
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Control page width when using ExportPacket[..., "InputText"]
Suppose we have a cell like this:
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Is it possible to get current thickness for every Line, Polygon, Circle object in a plot?
When exporting Mathematica graphics to raster formats with high resolution the common problem is that thickness for such objects as Line, ...
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Why does setting SyntaxInformation add a definition to DefaultValues
Before setting any definitions to the symbol f, the DefaultValues of f is empty:
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Can I reimplement something like TogglerBox?
As a purely academic exercise can I make a box structure that'll toggle between two views when clicked and that doesn't ever depend on Dynamic or ...
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Why does the kernel strip \< and \> from strings [duplicate]
The FE always passes strings to the kernel that look like:
"\"\<asdasd\>\""
And the \< and > get pruned out. We can simulate this for ourselves with:
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How can I see all FE nine-patch bitmaps?
The FE stores a bunch of little nine-patch images in the layout that govern the appearance of much of Mathematica. These things are incredibly useful to have as they may be used to give a clean ...
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How to make custom attached menubars? [duplicate]
I would like to understand how to build an attached menubar. For example, Image has the following bar - an attached cell that arises when clicked on:
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Get all built-in image files for styling buttons and panels
Mathematica makes use of nine-patch images in styling its resizable interfaces like Panel and Button. Nicer than remaking new ...
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