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From: István on 13 Dec 2009 04:48 Dear All, Is it just me or others as well would appreciate a toolbar in Mathematica? I've missed it at the first time I've encountered Mathematica 4, but, since then, I've simply got used to the routine to kill the kernel or delete all output using key-combinations. I wonder why there is no useful toolbar at all, with these functionalities, and perhaps more. This is a must for all interactive interfaces from decades now. Palettes are good, but actually I never use them, knowing how to access characters and code. And even if I write a palette to sport the buttons "Kill kernel", "Delete output", I cannot dock it in the main window, below the file menu. For me it seems so obvious to have a toolbar, but I don't remember seeing any info or post about it in the group. Am I missing something here? Istvan
From: Adam Griffith on 14 Dec 2009 00:05 Hi Istvan, DockedCells can do this. For example: CreateWindow[ DockedCells -> Cell[BoxData[ ToBoxes[Grid[{{Item[ Style["Evaluation Tools:", FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12, Bold], Alignment -> Left], Item[ButtonBar[{Style["Delete All Output", 10] :> FrontEndTokenExecute["DeleteGeneratedCells"], Style["Interrupt Evaluation", 10] :> FrontEndTokenExecute["EvaluatorInterrupt"], Style["Abort Evaluation", 10] :> FrontEndTokenExecute["EvaluatorAbort"]}], Alignment -> Right]}}, ItemSize -> {{Scaled[0.3], Scaled[0.7]}}]]], "DockedCell", Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.991791, 0.866468]]] -Adam Istv�n wrote: > Dear All, > > Is it just me or others as well would appreciate a toolbar in Mathematica? > I've missed it at the first time I've encountered Mathematica 4, but, since > then, I've simply got used to the routine to kill the kernel or delete all > output using key-combinations. I wonder why there is no useful toolbar at > all, with these functionalities, and perhaps more. This is a must for all > interactive interfaces from decades now. Palettes are good, but actually > I never use them, knowing how to access characters and code. And even if > I write a palette to sport the buttons "Kill kernel", "Delete output", I > cannot dock it in the main window, below the file menu. For me it seems > so obvious to have a toolbar, but I don't remember seeing any info or post > about it in the group. Am I missing something here? > > Istvan >
From: Albert Retey on 14 Dec 2009 00:05 Hi, > Is it just me or others as well would appreciate a toolbar in Mathematica? > I've missed it at the first time I've encountered Mathematica 4, but, since > then, I've simply got used to the routine to kill the kernel or delete all > output using key-combinations. I wonder why there is no useful toolbar at > all, with these functionalities, and perhaps more. This is a must for all > interactive interfaces from decades now. Palettes are good, but actually > I never use them, knowing how to access characters and code. And even if > I write a palette to sport the buttons "Kill kernel", "Delete output", I > cannot dock it in the main window, below the file menu. For me it seems > so obvious to have a toolbar, but I don't remember seeing any info or post > about it in the group. Am I missing something here? Although it would be nice, it is not of the top on the list of my wishes: my personal preference is to use the keyboard shortcuts. After all, interaction with Mathematica usually means to input code with the keyboard anyway... Since version 6 it is also quite easy to make your own toolbar (per notebook though), e.g.: SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], DockedCells -> { Cell[BoxData[ToBoxes[ Row[{ Button["\[Dagger]", FrontEnd`FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`FrontEndToken["EvaluatorQuit"]], Evaluator -> None ], Button["\[DeleteKey]", FrontEnd`FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`FrontEndToken["DeleteGeneratedCells"]], Evaluator -> None ] }] ]], "DockedCell"] } ] hth, albert
From: Helen Read on 14 Dec 2009 00:06 On 12/13/2009 4:48 AM, Istv=E1n wrote: > Dear All, > > Is it just me or others as well would appreciate a toolbar in Mathematica? > I've missed it at the first time I've encountered Mathematica 4, but, since > then, I've simply got used to the routine to kill the kernel or delete all > output using key-combinations. I wonder why there is no useful toolbar at > all, with these functionalities, and perhaps more. This is a must for all > interactive interfaces from decades now. Palettes are good, but actually > I never use them, knowing how to access characters and code. And even if > I write a palette to sport the buttons "Kill kernel", "Delete output", I > cannot dock it in the main window, below the file menu. For me it seems > so obvious to have a toolbar, but I don't remember seeing any info or post > about it in the group. Am I missing something here? Well, there is the Edit toolbar, which I set in the Options Inspector to be always on, but there isn't a lot on it, and I don't use it as much as I used to, now that we have context menus. It would be nice to have a customizable toolbar where one could put buttons for Abort Evaluation, Delete All Output, Evaluate Notebook and the like. -- Helen Read University of Vermont
From: Harutyun Amirjanyan on 14 Dec 2009 00:06
I think, that interface of mathematica really needs some major changes. And office style Ribbon would be very useful. Tabs on titlebar (like in google chrome) to switch easily between notebooks will be very good feature as well. Palettes are good, but pushing everything into them (like in v7) is too much. |