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Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?

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  • Subject: [mg118378] Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?
  • From: Martin Harborth <martin.harborth at yahoo.de>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:28:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear István,

Thanks for your suggestion to use autohotkey. But I'm using
Mathematica at my business site and I'm not allowed to install
any other "not confirmed" software on my business computer
(this is even controlled by automatic registry scan).

If there is really no way to assign Ctrl+Tab for notebook
switching within Mathematica 8 I'm still pretty astonished
because Ctrl+F6 is not handy in my opinion. And switching
notebooks is a very frequent task ...

And by the way, in Mathematica 4 on Windows, Ctrl+Tab works
like expected. So why not in Mathematica 8? :-(

Best regards,
Martin.



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Betreff: Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching
between notebooks?
Von: István Zachar <zac at freemail.hu>
An:
Datum: 24.04.2011 14:26

> Dear Martin,
> 
> as far as I know, there is no handy way to reassign a shortcut key
> combination to window swtiching *inside* Mathematica.
> However, it is possible to use external applications, that register
> clicks and key hits, and call arbitrary functions: one particularly
> fitting is AutoHotkey:
> 
> http://www.autohotkey.com/
> 
> My personal solution is to assign the Win+Tab key to send Ctrl+F6 to
> Mathematica (and change between Mathematica windows), and by this way,
> I can rely on Alt+Tab as well to change between other windows and
> Mathematica.
> The AutoHotkey language is easy like hell, but since this is a
> Mathematica forum, I won't flood it with example code. Email me if you
> need further help.
> 
> Istvan
> 
> On Apr 22, 11:41 am, Martin Harborth <martin.harbo... at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> Dear Mathematica Gurus,
>>
>> I'm using Mathematica 8 and I was searching today in the
>> Internet but I did not find a solution for the following
>> "problem":
>>
>> I really don't like the unhandy shortcut Ctrl+F6 for switching
>> between open notebooks. Because on a Windows system I'm used
>> to the convenient shortcut Ctrl+Tab for the same functionality
>> in a lot of different applications.
>>
>> Is it really not possible to customize Mathematica key
>> bindings in order to have the same shortcut in Mathematica 8?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin.
> 
> 


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