Re: CurrentValue
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg88720] Re: [mg88709] CurrentValue
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Tue, 13 May 2008 07:10:54 -0400 (EDT), Hannes Kessler wrote: > Hello, > > CurrentValue["SelectionData"] works for selections in the evaluation > notebook: > > Button["label", > With[{repeated = ToString@CurrentValue@"SelectionData"}, > NotebookApply[EvaluationNotebook[], > "f[" <> repeated <> "," <> repeated <> "]"]]] > > How to use CurrentValue for other notebooks than the evaluation > notebook? > CurrentValue[NotebookSelection[nb]] does not work. > > Regards, > Hannes Kesler For a palette, you would do it like this... CreatePalette@ Button["label", With[{repeated = ToString[CurrentValue[InputNotebook[], "SelectionData"]]}, NotebookApply[InputNotebook[], "f[" <> repeated <> "," <> repeated <> "]"]]] You can't use InputNotebook[] in a regular notebook because the act of clicking on the button will make the notebook containing the button the InputNotebook[]. Palettes don't have this property. But, of course, it would work fine for any explicit NotebookObject[]. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.