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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Silly NeXT question from user who should know the answer
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:03:04 GMT
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- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- > I'm going to catch hell for now knowing this, but...
- >
- > How can a user "inform" the FileViewer that files with certain
- > extensions should have a corresponding app selected as the default
- > launch app? It's easy enough to select an app already displayed in the
- > Tools panel of the inspector, but how does one add a new choice? Dragging
- > an icon into that area doesn't seem to work (it should!)...
-
- Hmm, I'm not sure that it should. Interesting idea, I guess. I'm not sure
- that it shouldn't, either... :-)
-
- The application itself advertises what kinds of files it knows how to
- handle. So the person writing the application has to put that part in.
- Then, the user has to put the application in one of the standard paths (ie,
- in /LocalApps, or ~/Apps, etc). You could add more paths to the list of
- ones which are checked by changing the appropriate "defaults" value (which
- is "Workspace ApplicationPaths").
-
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- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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