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Re: Re: Adding current style name to window title or status

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• Subject: [mg82447] Re: [mg81285] Re: Adding current style name to window title or status
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I don't understand the syntax of that SetOptions expression, 
specifically the hyphen (or minus sign) after "WindowStatusArea".

Norbert Marxer wrote:
> On 17 Sep., 09:47, chuck009 <dmili... at comcast.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to know the current style my notebook is using.  Would be nice I think if the style name would appear in the window title or maybe in the status area.  Here's what I have so far which only extracts a string containing the style name but I can't figure out how to get it in the window any way.  I realize there's a WindowStatusArea command but I don't know how to use it yet.  
>>
>> nb = Options[EvaluationNotebook[], StyleDefinitions];
>> myStyle = StyleDefinitions /. nb
>> my2 = myStyle[[1, 1]]
> 
> Hello
> 
> The following command (evaluated in the appropriate notebook) writes
> the file name of the style sheet in the status area of the window:
> 
> SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],WindowStatusArea-
>> ToString[StyleDefinitions/.Options[EvaluationNotebook[],StyleDefinitions]]]
> 
> Best Regards
> Norbert Marxer
> 
> 

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