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Re: front end commands

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  • Subject: [mg85172] Re: front end commands
  • From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:45:42 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <fnplll$b0a$1@smc.vnet.net>


Hi Noname,

you find this info in:

Math6\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows\MenuSetup.tr

The reson that "Size" does not do anything is that it is no command. It 

is just another sub-menu.

hope this helps, Daniel



patrol_boat 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?

> 

> Thanks

> 




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