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.

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

Operations on Complete Notebooks

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

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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