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$ControlActiveSetting

is a symbol whose value is True if it is evaluated while a control is active, or in certain other previewing situations.

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$ControlActiveSetting

$ControlActiveSetting

is a symbol whose value is True if it is evaluated while a control is active, or in certain other previewing situations.

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Basic Examples  (2)

Detect when controls in Manipulate are being used:

Most plot functions use $PerformanceGoal to control visualization quality:

Hence the default behavior is effectively the following:

Wolfram Research (2007), $ControlActiveSetting, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html.

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Wolfram Research (2007), $ControlActiveSetting, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html.

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Wolfram Language. 2007. "$ControlActiveSetting." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html.

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Wolfram Language. (2007). $ControlActiveSetting. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html

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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_$controlactivesetting, author="Wolfram Research", title="{$ControlActiveSetting}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_$controlactivesetting, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={$ControlActiveSetting}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ControlActiveSetting.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}