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

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  • Subject: [mg118433] Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?
  • From: Martin Harborth <martin.harborth at yahoo.de>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear István,

I tried it today again.

One only has to add the following lines to the 
"KeyEventTranslations.tr" file in order to have the Ctrl+Tab 
key working in the front end of Mathematica 8 as in Mathematica 4:

Item[KeyEvent["Tab", Modifiers -> {Control}], 
FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["CycleNotebooksForward"]]]

But this is really undocumented by Wolfram Research, I wonder 
why ...

Thanks a lot.

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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