Operating the Slide Show pallete from a notebook?

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I have a series of Mathematica tutorials in slide show format published in my website. Frequently I have to update them, what forces me to call the Slide Show pallete to bring all files to “Working” status (Settings, View Environment). After finishing the work I have to change back all files to the “SlideShow” status.

It would be much better if I could do this operation over all those files from a notebook in a programatically way. I really tryed to find some material that could give me a direction, but unfortunatelly I found nothing (probably I used wrong keywords in the search).

Can someone help me?

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Anderson,

You can do that programmatically with the SetOptions command. First you need a handle to your Notebook. You can specify it multiple ways (see Guide to Notebook programming. Lets get all of the notebooks and pick one.

mybooks = Notebooks[]
slideshow = mybooks[[3]]

Now look at the options:

In[72]:= Options[slideshow]

Out[72]= {
 ScreenStyleEnvironment -> "Working", 
 StyleDefinitions -> "Default.nb", 
 WindowMargins -> {{42, Automatic}, {Automatic, 24}}, 
 WindowSize -> {808, 751}}

Now change the show environment:

SetOptions[slideshow], ScreenStyleEnvironment -> "Working"]

or

SetOptions[slideshow], ScreenStyleEnvironment -> "SlideShow"]

Using this you can make a program to automatically process your slide shows.

Regards,

Neil

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To clarify:

Options gives the altered options and not “all” the options of a notebook. You can see what options are available by going to the options inspector in the Format menu.

Regards

4

Hi Neil,

I would like to thank you very much. Your suggestion worked perfectly.

Best regards,
Anderson

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Understood. Thanks.