How to Create Buttons

P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.

Talk given on Friday, October 22, 1999, at the 1999 Mathematica Developer Conference in Champaign, Illinois.

Buttons provide a means of creating highly interactive notebooks; however, writing your own buttons to perform nonstandard tasks can be frustrating. This talk will discuss buttons from a fundamental viewpoint and demonstrate how to create and test them. The audience is assumed to have a basic understanding of the box expressions used in Mathematica's math editing environment, notebook manipulation commands, and pure functions.