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.
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Here is the symbols palette -International Characters .
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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.
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This is a working version of the palette.
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In a palette like the one below the marked symbol shows that other symbols can be placed on it.
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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.
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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 ...
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You can create your own menus so you can use any function or expression manipulation.
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Clicking the button on a previously selected expression will work like the standard buttons.
Here is a working version of the palette:
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Created by Mathematica (October 6, 2007)