Re: Manipulating the Front End
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- Subject: [mg47045] Re: Manipulating the Front End
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve1 at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:19:01 -0500 (EST)
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In version 5 you will find all of the Front End tokens documented in the Help Browser. Select the "FrontEnd" tab, then the 6th entry in the left hand pane is "Front End Tokens". You invoke these commands using FrontEndTokenExecute. Steve Luttrell <JonasB at iui.se> wrote in message news:c3h19u$bad$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Does anyone know where can I find a complete documentation of the FrontEnd > programming features? There is a little in the Mathematica book and in the > online documentation, but it is by no means complete. Too often, like for > example in section 2.11.4 of the manual, you see tables listing: > > "A few named commands that can be given to the front end. These commands > usually correspond to menu items." > > But where do I find _all_ the named commands? > > I want to create keyboard macros for things I type often. (There are > palettes, I know, but...) Quite a bit can be learned by simply looking at > the *.tr files, but there is too much guesswork. Editing > DefaultFrontEndInit.tr was simple enough, Esc-si-Esc is replaced by > "//Simplify" if: > > "si"->"//Simplify", > > is added to the InputAliases. Since I would prefer to have Ctrl-Alt > combinations than Escaping all the time, I started looking at > KeyEventTranslations.tr. I managed to get "//Simplify" written when I type > Control-h by adding: > > Item[KeyEvent["h", Modifiers -> {Control}], > FrontEndExecute[{ > FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[SelectedNotebook[], > "//Simplify"] > }]], > > Unfortunately, I could not get any Ctrl-Alt combination to work by setting > Modifiers -> {Control, Option}. Does anybody have any suggestions? > > Jonas > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Omega Consulting [mailto:info at omegaconsultinggroup.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > Sent: den 12 februari 2004 13:16 > > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > Subject: [mg47045] Formatting notebooks for > > Menu File:New? > > > > > > At 05:05 AM 1/16/2004, jose flanigan wrote: > > >hi, > > > > > >I put some notebook formatting commands in the autoload init.m. This > > >formats the initial notebooks when I start Mathematica 5.0 from > > >scratch. However, it does not format the new notebooks I start by > > >clicking on File:New. > > > > > >Do you know how I can control the format of the notebooks > > started with > > >the File:New menu command? > > > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > > The actions of the menus are controlled by the MenuSetup.tr > > file. The file > > is in SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources or the platform-specific > > subdirectory. The action associated with each of the menu > > items can be any > > frontend command. Change the line: > > > > Item["&New", "New", MenuKey["n", Modifiers->{Control}]] > > > > to > > > > Item["&New", > > FrontEndExecute[{NotebookCreate[WindowSize->{100,100}]}], > > MenuKey["n", Modifiers->{Control}]] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Omega Consulting > > "The final answer to your Mathematica needs" > > http://omegaconsultinggroup.com > > >