Re: Switching between open notebooks
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- Subject: [mg80629] Re: Switching between open notebooks
- From: John Jowett <John.M.Jowett at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:26:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello,
At least on Windows, Ctrl-F6 has always done this (in
Mathematica and many other programs).
John Jowett
On Aug 26, 10:28 am, "Yuri Kandrashkin" <spinalge... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I prefer using keyboard commands and
> I dont really like the mechanism of switching between active
> (selected) notebooks from FrontEnd menu. I have found a solution which
> might be helpful for others.
> I set keyboard shortcut "ALT-`" to rotate open notebooks which is similar=
to
> "ALT-TAB" command of choosing active programs in Windows.
> Below are steps to activate this mechanism:
>
> 1. Find the file "MenuSetup.tr". You can find it path by evaluation of
> the command:
> ToFileName[{$TopDirectory,"SystemFiles","FrontEnd","TextResources","Windo=
ws=AD"}]
> 2. Copy this file keeping the same directory structure into your
> $UserBaseDirectory
> 3. Put the following line
> ,Delimiter,
> Item["&Switch Windows",
> KernelExecute[SetSelectedNotebook[Last[
> DeleteCases[Notebooks[],MessagesNotebook[=
]]]]],
> MenuKey["`",Modifiers->{Command}],
> MenuEvaluator -> Automatic]
> after the line Item["Start Windows Listing", "MenuListWindows",
> MenuAnchor->True]
> The command and shortcut is optional, you can choose other combination
> 4. Restart Mathematica
>
> This should activate the shortcut command "ALT-`" to swith active windows.
>
> Unfortunately the solution isn't perfect because it uses the commands of =
kernel.
> Please let me know if there is a better solution.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Yuri Kandrashkin, PhDhttp://spinalgebra.com- Mathematica based applicatio=
ns:
> - Magnetic Resonance with SpinAlgebra
> - Work with systems of Units