This provides a hook to the New:Notebook menu procedure. The hook puts up a control panel with more settings than the standard New:Notebook dialog box.

Features

Panel to input settings for a new notebook.

Title - a title for the notebook (blank titles default to "ENNotebook")

Name - generate the name from the title or from a time-stamp

Format - create a formatted (default) or unformatted notebook

Ruler - show or hide the ruler in formatted notebooks

Kill - how should the notebook be closed when you click on the close window button

Sizes - set the top, left, right, and bottom coordinates for the notebook as pixels (optional - the values are input as % of screen size when ScreenSizer is installed)

(Desktop - optional) - a popup menu with "-", "D", or "1-4" appears when ACL_WindowDesktops is installed to place the notebook in a certain desktop and move to that desktop (selecting "-" cancels invoking WindowDesktops for the new notebook)

If you do not handle the panel immediately, it may beep at you and, on the second time, disappear quietly.

Distribution Details

• Experiments: none
• Procedure Files: EasyNewNotebook
• XOPS: none
• Demos: none
• Requires Packages: NONE
• Benefits from Optional Packages:
  ScreenSizer: input notebook sizes as % screen size (shows a +SS in panel name)
  WindowDesktops: send notebook directly to selected desktop (shows a +WD in panel name)
• Help Files: none
• Documentation: the Web pages for this project

Installation Notes

After unpacking, copy the EasyNewNotebook folder to the User Procedures folder. Make an alias (shortcut) to the folder and put it into the Igor Procedures folder. The control panel should always appear with a New:Notebook call.

Benefits of the optional packages only appear when they are compiled before or at the same time as this package.

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