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- From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
- Subject: Re: how to delete palette icon from IB preferences?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:22:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.140407.15874@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu
- (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
- > 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.
-
- All the advice I have seen so far still requires IB to be restarted.
- If you're willing to restart it, you can just follow the directions....
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- Paul Burchard <burchard@geom.umn.edu>
- ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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- 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.
-
- All the advice I have seen so far still requires IB to be restarted.
- If you're willing to restart it, you can just follow the directions....
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