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- From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: how to delete palette icon from IB preferences?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.140407.15874@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:04:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.081623.3026@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
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- Paul Burchard writes
- > 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.
- >
-
- I think what he is asking is how to get it out of the list in Preferences. You
- can unload it, but it's still taking up space. Why would this matter? Well,
- in my case, I'm developing palettes, and I might have a lot of versions of a
- palette floating around, and I don't want the old grotty ones around to be
- clicked on.
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