BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
ButtonBox
ButtonBox[boxes]
is a low-level box construct that represents a button in a notebook expression.
- ButtonBox is the low-level representation of Button. Except for low-level notebook expression manipulation, ButtonBox should not need to be used directly.
- ButtonBox[boxes] displays as boxes and performs an action when it is clicked.
- The default action is to paste boxes at your current insertion point. Other actions can be specified using options.
- ButtonBox objects are used to implement palette buttons, hyperlinks, and other active elements in notebooks.
- ButtonBox objects are active when either they or the cell that contains them has the option Enabled->True.
- When ButtonBox objects are active, they perform an action whenever they are clicked. Otherwise, clicking them simply selects them or their contents.
- ButtonBox[boxes, BaseStyle->"style"] takes the properties of the ButtonBox from the specified style. The style for a ButtonBox can specify both its appearance and its action.
- The following options affecting button appearance can be given:
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- The following options affecting button action can be given:
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- ButtonBox[...] is by default interpreted as Button[...] if it is given as input to the Mathematica kernel.
Display a button that opens a new notebook window when clicked:
Out[1]//DisplayForm= |
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Display a button that assigns a random number to 
:
Out[1]//DisplayForm= |
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See the value of 
after clicking the button:
| Out[2]= |  |
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