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Re: Lauching application from an icon

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• Subject: [mg110562] Re: Lauching application from an icon
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:08:33 -0400 (EDT)

What do you mean by: "launch a Mathematica application...directly from an
icon"?

It is specific notebooks that are "launched" by Mathematica. In Windows, at
least, you can simply drag a notebook to the desktop and create an icon.
When you double-click the icon the notebook will open. I suppose one could
also put the notebook on the task bar and open it with a single click. (The
notebook itself might have initialization cells that load any packages in
the application, and maybe even bring up the main documentation guide page.)

Often, when I am working on some project that has many notebooks in a
folder, I create a shortcut icon for the folder on the desktop. It's easy to
create these and then delete them when you are no longer using them.

I don't know if that is what you are thinking of.

I also have a shortcut icon on my desktop that links to a folder that
contains links to the common folders that I often use.

I also have a CurrentBackup folder on my desktop (not a shortcut) where I
can copy current notebooks I am working on as a temporary backup between
system or DVD backups.


David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/  



From: Chris Degnen [mailto:degnen at cwgsy.net] 

I have still found no way to launch a Mathematica application in
the front-end, directly from an icon (or via cmd).
On a previous thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/
thread/022d34bca79f6375?pli=1

the following were suggested, but they don't work.  Any ideas?

(cmd line)  start foo.nb
containing:
UsingFrontEnd[
  nb = NotebookOpen["MYFILETOEXECUTE.nb"];
  SelectionMove[nb, All, Notebook];
  FrontEndTokenExecute[nb, "EvaluateCells"];
]

or

MathKernel -noprompt -run "(*some command*);Quit[]"


On Jun 11, 12:58 pm, Chris Degnen <deg... at cwgsy.net> wrote:
> Is there some way to start a Mathematica application from an icon?
> I tried using a batch file to no avail, e.g.
>
> @echo off
> "C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\7.0\Mathematica.exe" -
> run KernelExecute[Get["MyPrograms`StartDialog`"]]
>
> There are only two command-line options shown here:-
>
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/program/Mathematica.html