Interrupting Calculations (Mathematica Tutorial)

There will probably be times when you want to stop Mathematica in the middle of a calculation. Perhaps you realize that you asked Mathematica to do the wrong thing. Or ...

MousePosition (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MousePosition[] gives the current mouse position in the notebook front end. MousePosition["coords"] gives the mouse position with respect to the specified coordinate ...

EventHandler (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EventHandler[expr, {"event_1" :> action_1, "event_2" :> action_2, ...}] displays as expr, evaluating action_i whenever "event_i" occurs in connection with expr.

Use Palettes (Mathematica How To)

Palettes give you immediate access to many features built into Mathematica, from creating syntactically complete expressions and inserting special characters, to building up ...

GUIRunModal (GUIKit Package Symbol)

GUIRunModal[src] loads and runs an interface definition in a modal state with the kernel and returns a result when finished.GUIRunModal[src, args] passes arguments to the ...

MathLink Development in C (Windows) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on computers running a Microsoft Windows operating system. ("MathLink and External ...

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.

Executing GUIs (GUIKit Package Tutorial)

One of the most basic features of GUIKit is loading and executing an existing user interface application. This can be accomplished in one step in either a modal or modeless ...

EquationTrekkerNonModal (Equation Trekker Package Symbol)

EquationTrekkerNonModal is the nonmodal dialog version of EquationTrekker.

Dialog Boxes (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's unified symbolic architecture makes it incredibly easy to create dialog boxes that range from the straightforward to the highly elaborate and customized. Every ...