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RE: Button on a palette to create new text cells

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• Subject: [mg77975] RE: [mg77967] Button on a palette to create new text cells
• From: "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:27:54 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200706200945.FAA10630@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>

Try

CreatePalette[{Button["New Text Cell", 
   NotebookWrite[InputNotebook[], Cell["", "Text",
      FontFamily -> "Helvetica",
      FontSize -> 36,
      FontWeight -> "Plain",
      FontSlant -> "Plain",
      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.8, 1]]]]}, 
 WindowTitle -> "Text Cell Creator"]

Best regards

Ingolf Dahl

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald DuBois [mailto:donabc at comcast.net] 
Sent: 20 June 2007 11:46
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg77975] [mg77967] Button on a palette to create new text cells

I am trying to create a palette that has a button
on it which, when clicked, will create a new text cell
right under the cursor in the selected notebook and this cell will have a
given background color, font family and font size.   The closest I have
been able to get to this goal are the following
lines:

CreatePalette[
 {
  
  Button["New Txt Cell", FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken[SelectedNotebook[],
"SimilarCellBelow"]]]
  
  }
 ]

This creates a new cell which I hoped to be able to modify to
be of Style "Text" with a given background color, font family and size but
have not been able to do so.
The style stays the same as the previous cell - whatever that may have been
- and I don't seem to be able to change that.

There is no token other than "SimilarCellBelow" that I have found that seems
capable of generating a new cell
which is why I am trying to modify what it does.

The general application is to be able to easily add text cells for comments
in a notebook without having to select the cell, and go to the Format pull
down menu 
and then click on a style.

Any suggestions would be creatly appreciated.

Don

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  • Button on a palette to create new text cells
    • From: Donald DuBois <donabc@comcast.net>