Mathematica 6 introduced the revolutionary idea of symbolic dynamic interactivity. Mathematica 7 makes use of this idea throughout the system, and adds a number of additional features to the core concept.

Interactive Manipulation

Manipulate (modified) — new support for arranging controls in grids etc.

New in Symbolic Controls

Control — an interactive control with type automatically chosen

ButtonBar — a bar of buttons with labels and actions

ChoiceButtons — a pair of OK and Cancel buttons that close a dialog

Pane (modified) — scrollable pane

TabView (modified) — scrollable tabs

CheckboxBar, RadioButtonBar (modified) — new support for in-bar delimiters

Panel (modified) — display a panel with different appearances

PreemptProtect — protect evaluation from interruption by preemptive evaluations

Interface Building

Placeholder — symbolic representation of place to type into