Create Animations (Mathematica How To)

Animations can convey much more information than static displays. The built-in Mathematica functions Animate and ListAnimate provide an immediate way to construct animations ...

Use Built-in Gamepad Support (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica supports using joysticks, gamepads, 3D mice, and all other controller devices that follow the HID specification. In fact, in many cases, there is zero setup ...

SectorChart (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SectorChart[{{x_1, y_1}, {x_1, y_2}, ...}] makes a sector chart with sector angles proportional to x_i and radii y_i.SectorChart[{..., w_i[{x_i, y_i}, ...], ..., w_j[{x_j, ...

ControlActive (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ControlActive[act, norm] evaluates to act if a control that affects act is actively being used, and to norm otherwise.

Activating Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Once the installation of Mathematica 8 is complete, you will be presented with the Wolfram Product Activation dialog. There are three methods to activate Mathematica: online ...

Managing Computations in Notebooks (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's sophisticated notebook paradigm provides a uniquely powerful way to manage, organize, document and present computations—from a few input and output lines, to ...

Data Formats in Wolfram|Alpha (Mathematica Tutorial)

In addition to its graphical results, Wolfram|Alpha can provide alternative representations that contain additional information or are well suited to particular tasks. These ...

ImageSizeAction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ImageSizeAction is an option for Pane and related constructs that specifies what to do if the specified ImageSize setting does not match the size of the contents.

ColorSlider (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ColorSlider[color] represents a color slider currently set to the color corresponding to color.ColorSlider[Dynamic[color]] uses the dynamically updated current value of ...

Database Connections (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The first step in using a database is making a connection. This part of the tutorial discusses how to do this. If you are just starting to use DatabaseLink, you might want to ...