Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?
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- Subject: [mg118517] Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?
- From: István Zachar <zac at freemail.hu>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:54:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks for the follow-up post Martin.
I was aware of the KeyEventTranslations.tr file, but it always seemed
to be a bad idea to hack it, not because of the risk (I guess it's
minimal) but because one always forget to salvage old .tr files when
moving to a new computer/new Mathematica version. For my experience,
an external script is more portable.
Also, undocumentedness is a major hindrance...
Istvan
On Apr 28, 12:33 pm, Martin Harborth <martin.harbo... at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Dear Istv=E1n,
>
> 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.
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching
> between notebooks?
> Von: Istv=E1n Zachar <z... 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.