Visible

Visible

is a notebook option which specifies whether the notebook should be explicitly displayed on the screen.

Details

  • With Visible->False a notebook can still be manipulated from the kernel, but will not explicitly be displayed on the screen.
  • CreateWindow[Visible->False] creates a new invisible window.

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Create a document that is not displayed:

You can carry out manipulations of the notebook even while it is invisible:

Make the notebook visible:

Wolfram Research (1996), Visible, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), Visible, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "Visible." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). Visible. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_visible, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Visible}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html}", note=[Accessed: 21-February-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_visible, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Visible}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Visible.html}, note=[Accessed: 21-February-2025 ]}