Palettes and buttons

Palettes and buttons allows the interactive style of the Mathematica system.

We have a collection of standard palettes which are accesible through the File\Palettes menu.

Here is a part of the palette Basic Calculations.

Here is the symbols palette -International Characters .

Palettes are like extentions to your keyboard.

Clicking on the symbol  ε from a palette like as shown below will place it in your notebook at the cursor location.

This is a working version of the palette.

In a palette like the one below the marked symbol shows that other symbols can be placed on it.

Another way is to select the text before clicking the button, in our case - square root.

Here is a working version of the same palette.

It is possible to create your own palette.

We start by creating an empty palette and filling it out as suggested from the Input/Create Table/Matrix/Palette menu ...

You can create your own menus so you can use any function or expression manipulation.

Clicking the button on a previously selected expression will work like the standard buttons.

Here is a working version of the palette:

Created by Mathematica  (October 6, 2007)