Streams and Low-Level Input and Output (Mathematica Tutorial)

Files and pipes are both examples of general Mathematica objects known as streams. A stream in Mathematica is a source of input or output. There are many operations that you ...

Graphics Coordinates (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica supports a variety of coordinate systems, organized for ease and efficiency of both direct and programmatic use. It supports convenient robust automatic range and ...

Low-Level Interface Control (Mathematica Guide)

The core of Mathematica's unique power for building interfaces is in its extremely flexible high-level symbolic paradigm. But Mathematica also allows you to build interfaces ...

ContentPadding (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ContentPadding is an option for objects that can be displayed with frames that specifies whether the vertical margins should shrink wrap tightly around the contents.

DockedCells (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DockedCells is an option for notebooks that gives a list of cells that are to be displayed "docked" at the top of the notebook.

FieldMasked (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FieldMasked is an option to InputField that determines whether to mask user input.

FinishDynamic (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FinishDynamic[] finishes updating and displaying all currently visible Dynamic objects.

LibraryFunctionError (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LibraryFunctionError[name, code] represents an error returned from a LibraryFunction.

LibraryLoad (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LibraryLoad[lib] loads the dynamic library lib into the Mathematica runtime.

PolarPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PolarPlot[r, {\[Theta], \[Theta]_min, \[Theta]_max}] generates a polar plot of a curve with radius r as a function of angle \[Theta].PolarPlot[{f_1, f_2, ...}, {\[Theta], ...