Mathematica Solution for Interface Development

From simple toolbars to sophisticated palettes and complex applications, Mathematica makes developing and deploying user interfaces easy, reducing the overhead of interface creation and optimizing the use of the underlying application.

Because the controls in the Mathematica interface development solution are symbolic objects, their selection, layout, and relation to variables is automatic, streamlining interface construction and shortening development time.

Creating sophisticated user interfaces symbolically and programmatically with unprecedented automation

Arrange controls in arbitrary layouts to create any desired interface, such as these tools for measuring polygons and morphing between surfaces in 3D

Key Capabilities

Why Choose Mathematica

Ways to Use

Mathematica includes thousands of built-in functions for computation, modeling, visualization, development, and deployment »
Interface development specific capabilities:
Automatic selection and layout of control types to make interface creation more efficient »
Programmatically create arbitrary patterns of controls or arbitrary interface structures—all controls are specified in convenient symbolic form »
Seamless integration of all content, including text, editable graphics, and interactive controls, into scrollable documents »
Manipulate for instant interface building using a single command, with automatic selection and layout of appropriate controls
Unification of graphics, text, and controls such that controls can use graphics or other controls as labels and values, and graphics can contain controls and other interactive content »
All standard types of controls and interface elements, including sliders, checkboxes, popup menus, dialogs, toolbars, and input fields with styled default text or masked characters, as well as the ability to create new forms of controls
Thousands of interactive models across a broad range of subjects in the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, ready to be used and extended »
Document-centered interface in which control elements, structural information, and user data all reside in a single document »

Key Capabilities

Why Choose Mathematica

Ways to Use

Compare Mathematica to your current tools. Do they have these advantages?
Fast prototyping of applications or tools without being an expert in interface creation »
Interfaces are fast and easy to create because components are linked together with simple variable values, not complex script code
Competitor note: Constructing an interface with the Java Swing toolkit or other systems requires writing event-handling code
Manipulate allows instant creation of an interface, automatically selecting and arranging appropriate types of controls »
Competitor note: Unique to Mathematica
Use any standard interface element, create a new type of control, and use graphics as elements of controls
Competitor note: Matlab and other applications limit the types of controls available

Easy development and effective deployment with Wolfram CDF Player »
Competitor note: Matlab applications must be compiled and are not platform-independent
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Key Capabilities

Why Choose Mathematica

Ways to Use

Mock up or prototype new interface elements
Quickly create an interface to see how changing parameters will affect experiments
Create an interface to streamline data analysis and curve fitting »
Merge text, graphics, and applications into one interactive document »
Programmatically produce user interfaces as output
Construct sophisticated interfaces for applications
Design dynamic interfaces that change in real time, depending on the options selected by the user
Develop applications with quick-to-build interfaces