Re: Finding the Path to the Active Notebook
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- Subject: [mg12610] Re: Finding the Path to the Active Notebook
- From: gwinn@ma.ultranet.com (Joe Gwinn)
- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:25:20 -0400
- Organization: Gwinn Instruments
- References: <6jol58$k6h@smc.vnet.net> <6k7ek7$1nt@smc.vnet.net>
I don't know that use of SelectedNotebook[] solves the problem. If I
understand the original problem, it's a problem I also have, access to
a bunch of data-filled notebooks kept in the same directory as the
data-analysis notebook that uses that data, without having to
explicitly specify the full path to those data-filled notebooks, so if
the directory is moved or copied, those explicitly specified paths
don't have to be explicitly re-specified.
Joe Gwinn
In article <6k7ek7$1nt@smc.vnet.net>, Paul Abbott
<paul@physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Adalbert Hanszen wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know a way, how to programmatically find out, from which
> > directory the active notebook was loaded?
> >
> > I am looking for something like MyOwnPath[] returning me the full path
> > to the active notebook (or None, if the notebook has just been typed in
> > without any Notebook-loading).
>
> Do you really need this? Doesn't SelectedNotebook[] provide the
> functionality you need for working with a particular Notebook?
>
> In[1]:= SelectedNotebook[]
> Out[1]=-NotebookObject-
>
> Note that, if you unformat this output, you can find out more
> information about this NotebookObject:
>
> Out[1]=
> Cell[BoxData[
> FormBox[
> InterpretationBox[
> RowBox[{
> "\[SkeletonIndicator]", "NotebookObject",
> "\[SkeletonIndicator]"}],
> NotebookObject[
> FrontEndObject[
> LinkObject[ "Mathematica 3.0", 1, 1]], 77],
> Editable->False], TraditionalForm]], "Output",
> CellLabel->"Out[1]="]
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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