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- From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: how to delete palette icon from IB preferences?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.015021.23023@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <5NOV199214041116@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:50:21 GMT
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- Dick Silbar writes
- > In trying to develop a custom palette (actually, help Charlie Fletcher
- > get nxyPalette working on 3.0) I found the following annoying "feature"
- > of the 3.0 Interface Builder. You can have multiple copies of the
- > palette icon in the Preferences panel which allows you to load or unload
- > a palette more quickly than going through the Tools menu item. Fortunately
- > the pathname is given, so you can sort out which palette is which.
- > UNfortunately, I can't seem to delete the bad ones from that panel
- > (employing the usual GUI tricks of highlight + <del> or <cmd-x>).
- >
- > What's the trick here?
- >
- > Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
-
- There must be a better way than this, but here's a trick I use:
-
- Go into your ~/.NeXT directory, and look for a file called defaults.nibd.
- There are three fields of interest:
-
- ActivePalette
- AvailablePalettes
- Palettes
-
- ActivePalette is a 0-based index into the Palettes list which says which
- palette is selected when IB comes up. AvailablePalettes lists the palettes IB
- knows about (this is in the Preferences section). Palettes lists the palettes
- IB loads at launch time.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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