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Article #1390Re: how to delete palette icon from IB preferences?
From: Michael B. Johnson
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 14:04
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 14:04
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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. -- --> Michael B. Johnson --> MIT Media Lab -- Computer Graphics & Animation Group --> (617) 253-0663 -- wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu --> NeXT Mail accepted at wave@nordine.media.mit.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!news 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> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Lines: 41