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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: Silly NeXT question from user who should know the answer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.133046.15696@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan26.232845.12294@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:30:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.232845.12294@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
- >I'm going to catch hell for now knowing this, but...
- >
- >How can a user "inform" the FileViewer that files with certain
- >extensions should have a corresponding app selected as the default
- >launch app? It's easy enough to select an app already displayed in the
- >Tools panel of the inspector, but how does one add a new choice? Dragging
- >an icon into that area doesn't seem to work (it should!)...
-
- You have to edit the __header portion of the __ICON segment of the
- App. The best way to do it is to pull it out of the App with
- SegHoarker and change it with Edit.
-
- The format goes a little something like this:
-
-
- S <extension> <app name> <icon name>
-
-
- Those are tabs and not spaces... So if you want to make Edit the
- default app for tiff files for some reason, put this in the __header
- portion of Edit:
-
- S tiff Edit unknown
-
-
- This will make Edit appear in the tools inspector. Unknown just tells
- the workspace to get the icon from somewhere else (in this case from
- the OS, which already has a tiff icon).
-
-
- andrew
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