Re: Re: How do I send the palette behind other windows?
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- Subject: [mg99327] Re: [mg99295] Re: How do I send the palette behind other windows?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 05:19:23 -0400 (EDT)
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That doesn't work for me. I can't make the addition stay in the init.m file. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Helen Read [mailto:hpr at together.net] Bob F wrote: > On Apr 30, 4:18 am, sean_inc... at yahoo.com wrote: >> I was trying to do some typesetting and needed the palettes, and to my >> surprise, they changed the precedence of the palettes such that it >> stays on top of all other windows. >> >> How do I fix this so that it will get behind the window when I click >> other windows to activate them? >> >> Thanks for any insights. >> >> Sean > > I thought the WindowFloating attribute is supposed to control this > (set to True it's always on top, set to False it's on top if you click > on it, or underneath others if you click on some other window or > palette), but I tried setting one of my Palettes to WindowFloating- >> False and it still has this "always on top" behavior, so not sure why > this happens, but I wonder if this is platform or version specific. I > tried this on a Mac with version 7.0.1 -- what version/platform does > Sean have? The only I have found to prevent the palettes from always floating on top is to edit the FrontEnd init.m file. Look for PalettesMenuSettings->{ } and within that there are settings for individual palettes. Set WindowFloating->False for *each* palette that you do not want to float on top. There will generally be a whole whack of options already set for the palettes that you use. For instance, here's what the ClassroomsAssistant palette settings look in my profile on the machine where I am currently logged on. I have added the WindowFloating->False option to it. Following that there may be other palettes listed, and you can insert others if they are not there. PalettesMenuSettings->{ "ClassroomAssistant.nb" -> { WindowMargins -> {{Automatic, 100}, {Automatic, 36}}, TaggingRules -> { "DocuToolsSettings" -> { "$PaletteMode" -> "Internal", "$ApplicationName" -> "Mathematica", "$LinkBase" -> "Mathematica", "$ApplicationDirectory" -> "C:\\Mathematica\\", "$DocumentationDirectory" -> "C:\\Mathematica\\Documentation\\English\\"}, "ShowCalculator" -> True, "PaletteMode" -> 1, "ShowNavigationTools" -> False, "ShowBasicCommands" -> True, "ShowWritingTools" -> False, "ShowBasicTypesetting" -> False, "ShowAbcKeyboard" -> False, "ShowHelpLinks" -> False, "OptionsInsertionMode" -> 1},WindowFloating->False} } -- Helen Read University of Vermont