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Re: more documentation finder palettes

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• Subject: [mg76181] Re: [mg76120] more documentation finder palettes
• From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
• Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: drmajorbob at bigfoot.com

This fails. The slashes are backward.

SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <>
   "/Documentation/English/Packages/Compatibility/Documentation/
   English/Guides"]

Bobby

On Wed, 16 May 2007 04:41:42 -0500, Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183 at earthlink.ne=
t>  =

wrote:

>
> (* This is a vastly improved version of the previous palette for
> opening tutorial overviews: *)
>
> columns = 3;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <>
>     "/Documentation/English/System/Tutorials"];
> overviewNames =
>    StringReplace[#, {".nb" -> ""}] & /@ FileNames["*Overview.nb"];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*Overview.nb", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/System/Tutorials"}, Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@
>             StringReplace[
>              First[#], {"Overview" -> "", "And" -> "&",
>               StartOfString ~~ "The" -> "", "Administration" -> "Admin=
",
>               "TwoDimensional" -> "2D", "Operations" -> "Ops"} ],
>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@
>         Transpose[{overviewNames, docpaths}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 9, FontFamily ->
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{2, 2}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
>
> (* This one opens package guides:  *)
>
> columns = 3;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <> "/Documentation/English/
> Packages"];
> pkgnames = FileNames[];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/Packages/*/Documentation/English/Guides"}=
,
>    Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@First[#],=

>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@
>         Transpose[{Flatten[pkgnames /. "Compatibility" -> {}],
>           Flatten[
>            If[Not@StringMatchQ[#, {"*Package.nb"}], {}, #] & /@
>             docpaths]}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 9, FontFamily ->
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{2, 2}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
>
>
> (* This one opens the compatibility guides: *)
>
> columns = 1;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <>
>     "/Documentation/English/Packages/Compatibility/Documentation/
> English/\
> Guides"];
> pkgnames = FileNames[];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/Packages/Compatibility/Documentation/
> English/\
> Guides/*"}, Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@First[#],=

>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@ Transpose[{pkgnames,
> docpaths}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 10, FontFamily ->
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{10, 10}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
>
>
>
>
>



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DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com

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  • Re: Compatibility woes
    • From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob@bigfoot.com>