ButtonEvaluator
is an option for the low-level function ButtonBox that specifies where the expression constructed from ButtonFunction should be sent for evaluation.


ButtonEvaluator
ButtonEvaluator
is an option for the low-level function ButtonBox that specifies where the expression constructed from ButtonFunction should be sent for evaluation.
Details

- The default setting is ButtonEvaluator->None.
- Possible settings are:
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None the front end Automatic the kernel used by default in the current notebook "name" a kernel referred to by a specific name - With ButtonEvaluator->Automatic, the expression to be evaluated can contain any Wolfram Language objects.
- With ButtonEvaluator->None, the expression can contain only the specific notebook commands supported by the front end. All these commands are in the context FrontEnd`. Expressions intended for processing purely by the front end must be wrapped with FrontEndExecute.
History
Introduced in 1996 (3.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1996), ButtonEvaluator, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ButtonEvaluator.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "ButtonEvaluator." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ButtonEvaluator.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). ButtonEvaluator. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ButtonEvaluator.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_buttonevaluator, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ButtonEvaluator}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ButtonEvaluator.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_buttonevaluator, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ButtonEvaluator}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ButtonEvaluator.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}