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Mathematica 9 (2012)

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MATHEMATICA GUIDE

Low-Level Notebook Programming

In Mathematica's unified symbolic architecture, every Mathematica notebook you see is represented as a symbolic expression that can be manipulated and controlled programmatically using Mathematica's symbolic language. Mathematica's low-level notebook programming functions give direct incremental access to notebook expressions, allowing you successively to perform arbitrary operations on the "selection" in any notebook.

Learning Resources Learning Resources

Tutorials

Notebooks as Mathematica Expressions Cells as Mathematica Expressions Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel Manipulating the Front End from the Kernel Executing Notebook Commands Directly in the Front End Notebooks as Documents Introduction to Toolbars

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Notebook Handles

Notebooks — a list of open notebooks (NotebookObject objects)

SelectedNotebook ▪ EvaluationNotebook ▪ InputNotebook ▪ ButtonNotebook

NotebookLocate — locate a notebook, a web notebook, or a tag in a notebook

NotebookFileName ▪ NotebookDirectory

Cell Handles

Cells — a list of cells in a given notebook (CellObject objects)

SelectedCells ▪ EvaluationCell

Operations on Complete Notebooks

Options, SetOptions, CurrentValue — get or set any option of any notebook object

NotebookInformation — information on open notebooks

SetSelectedNotebook ▪ NotebookClose ▪ NotebookSave ▪ NotebookPrint

Symbolic Notebook Structure »

NotebookGet — get the symbolic representation of a displayed notebook

NotebookPut — display the notebook corresponding to a symbolic expression

Notebook ▪ Cell ▪ RowBox ▪ ButtonBox ▪ GridBox ▪ ...

Modifying Notebook Contents

NotebookFind — find a structure within a notebook

SelectionMove — move the selection in a notebook

NotebookRead — read the current selection as a symbolic expression

NotebookWrite, NotebookApply — write, apply content at the current selection

NotebookDelete — delete the current selection

ShowSelection ▪ Visible ▪ AutoScroll

NotebookSelection — a handle to a selection in a notebook

SelectionEvaluate ▪ SelectionCreateCell ▪ SelectionAnimate

Global Front End Operations »

FrontEndTokenExecute — execute a menu-like front end command

$FrontEnd ▪ $FrontEndSession ▪ FrontEndEventActions ▪ ...

FrontEndExecute — send an expression to be executed by the front end

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