In article <1992Nov8.015021.23023@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu
(Michael B. Johnson) writes:
> 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:
I may be misunderstanding your question, but the directions are right on the prefs panel. It says "double click to install/uninstall", and indeed, double clicking will both unload the palette and change your IB prefs.
Yes, it's inconsistent with NeXT's own UI guidelines, but there it is...