editing the workspace's menu
Nick Kline
Tools->inspector
This was very convenient. So tonight, I opened up
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/English.lproj/Workspace.nib and
edit the menu entry. I added 'i' to be the command key for
inspector.
But, it doesn't work! I logged out and logged in again and it didn't
work. The letter i was now visible there but alas, it didn't work.
Is there a layer of indirection in the workspace for command key
equivalents? Or is there another entry that already uses 'i'?
(I didn't find it).
And I still didn't get a solution for the problem, given two colors,
background and foreground, give me the highlight color.
thanks,
nick
Garance A. Drosehn
> In 3.0 I edited the workspace's menu and added i to refer to
> Tools->inspector
>
> This was very convenient. So tonight, I opened up
> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/English.lproj/Workspace.nib
> and edit the menu entry. I added 'i' to be the command key for
> inspector.
>
> But, it doesn't work! I logged out and logged in again and it didn't
> work. The letter i was now visible there but alas, it didn't work.
A much better solution, done on a per-user basis, is to use some
dwrite commands. There's a dwrite setting called NXCommandKeys.
For Terminal, for instance, I wanted to change command-key shortcuts.
In a unix window I typed:
dwrite Terminal NXCommandKeys "Quit,Q,Close Window,W"
so those would be capital letters, instead of lowercase letters.
In your case, you'd want to change:
dwrite Workspace NXCommandKeys "Inspector...,i"
I used to do this on my NS-2.1 system, but ended up deciding
that it made more sense to use the already-defined command-key
equivalents. Ie, command-1, command-2, command-3, and command-4
to get straight to the Inspector panel of choice.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = g...@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA