[comp.sys.next] How set Digital Librarian icons?

daugher@ksrcnxt3.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity) (11/30/90)

A student just showed me how to add files to Digital Librarian's shelf
by editing /NextApps/Librarian.app/targets/targetFile in the obvious
fashion; what's not obvious is how to associate an icon with an entry
(and I didn't see it in the on-line documentation).  Anybody know?

Thanks!



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jasmerb@prism.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) (11/30/90)

In article <10503@helios.TAMU.EDU> (Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>A student just showed me how to add files to Digital Librarian's shelf
>by editing /NextApps/Librarian.app/targets/targetFile in the obvious
>fashion;

EEEEEEKK!!

Why don't you just drag the folder from the Browser into Digital
Librarian? This is a heck of a lot easier to do, plus it will make
it less system-wide (it creates a 'targets' directory in ~/.NeXT)
instead of changing what everyone sees when they start DL.

>what's not obvious is how to associate an icon with an entry
>(and I didn't see it in the on-line documentation).  Anybody know?

Sure, DL looks for a file named icon.tiff in the .index directory that
is created after you index the target. 

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@ohsu.edu

treed@odie.UUCP (Timothy Reed) (12/27/90)

It's much easier than that in  2.0: just create a file called  .dir.tiff
in your documentation directory  - not only  will Digital Librarian  see
the icon, but the view will too.   Thank God that we don't have to  putz
around with the .index directory and  whatnot anymore.  You can  replace
the standard  directory  folder icon  of  any directory  (including  the
crummy "little house"  icon that  represents your  home directory)  with
your own cool custom icon.

Tim Reed
Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc.

In article <1990Nov30.031643.14681@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> jasmerb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer) writes:
>In article <10503@helios.TAMU.EDU> (Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>
>>what's not obvious is how to associate an icon with an entry
>>(and I didn't see it in the on-line documentation).  Anybody know?
>
>Sure, DL looks for a file named icon.tiff in the .index directory that
>is created after you index the target. 
>
>Bryce Jasmer
>jasmerb@ohsu.edu

tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich) (12/28/90)

In article <138@odie.UUCP> treed@odie.UUCP (My Account) writes:
>It's much easier than that in  2.0: just create a file called  .dir.tiff
>in your documentation directory  - not only  will Digital Librarian  see
>the icon, but the view will too.   Thank God that we don't have to  putz
>around with the .index directory and  whatnot anymore.  You can  replace
>the standard  directory  folder icon  of  any directory  (including  the
>crummy "little house"  icon that  represents your  home directory)  with
>your own cool custom icon.
>
>Tim Reed
>Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc.
>
 
This is neat!!  On a related subject, where are the system icons stored?
(eg the Recycling Center or NeXT Workspace Manager Icons)       

 
Tyler