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Creating a Custom Snippets Palette
Maple provides a number of palettes, collections of buttons representing symbols, expressions, and so on, that can be inserted into a Maple document. You can also create your own custom Snippets palette. The process for creating a Snippets palette is:
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Define the items that you will put on your palette by creating tasks.
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Define a Snippets palette.
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Create icons for your palette items (optional).
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Add the palette items to your palette.
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Defining a Palette Item by Creating a Task
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Palettes are built from task templates. A task template can be any subselection of a Maple worksheet (or an entire Maple worksheet). It can include placeholders similar to those used in the Expression palette.
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Defining a Snippets Palette
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You can specify where the palette appears in the Maple window (left or right, top or bottom). To change this later, see Arranging Palettes.
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Creating an Icon for Your Palette Item
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To create the icon that will display on the palette:
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Save the desired image as a PNG file.
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Use the command DocumentTools[AddIcon] to store the icon in the same help database file as the associated task (by default, the tasks.hdb file).
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Note: Creating an icon is optional. If you do not use an image file as the icon, then a default text display is used.
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Adding a Palette Item to Your Palette
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