Re: front end commands
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- Subject: [mg85171] Re: front end commands
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:45:11 -0500 (EST)
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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