[mg85171] Re: front end commands

[Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>]

On Jan 30, 12:05 pm, patrol_b... at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I want learn how to execute any menu command using the
> FrontEndExecute and FrontEndToken commands from the input prompt.  The
> problem I'm finding is that not all commands, as named in the menus,
> seem to execute this way.  For example, when I enter
> FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["New"]], it opens a new notebook, but
> when I enter FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["Size"]], nothing seems to
> happen.  When I went to the help system under FrontEndToken, it says:
>
> "The mapping between command tokens and menu items or keyboard
> shortcuts is defined in front end text resource files."
>
> I'm not sure what they mean "front end text resource files."  Can
> someone help me out?

The file you're looking for is located at

C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\6.0\SystemFiles\FrontEnd
\TextResources\Windows

on a standard Windows installation.

Szabolcs