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Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Chapter 10 Creating Actions Manually

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Reasons You Must Create an Action Manually

COMMAND Actions
MAP Actions
TT_MSG (ToolTalk Message) Actions

Creating an Action Manually: General Steps

Configuration Files for Actions
To Create an Action Manually
Example of Creating a COMMAND Action
Example of Creating a MAP Action
To Reload the Actions/Data Types Database
Creating an Action File (Icon) for an Action
Specifying the Icon Image Used by an Action
To Modify an Existing Action Definition
Precedence in Action Definitions

Building the Execution String for a COMMAND Action

General Features of Execution Strings
Creating an Action that Uses No Arguments
Creating an Action that Accepts a Dropped File
Creating an Action that Prompts for a File Argument
Creating an Action that Accepts a Dropped File or Prompts for One
Creating an Action that Prompts for a Non-File Argument
Interpreting a File Argument as a String
Providing Shell Capabilities in an Action
Creating COMMAND Actions for Multiple File Arguments

Windowing Support and Terminal Emulators for COMMAND Actions

Specifying the Window Support for the Action
Specifying Command-Line Options for the Terminal Emulator
Specifying a Different Default Terminal Emulator

Restricting Actions to Certain Arguments

Restricting an Action to a Specified Data Type
Restricting an Action Based on the Number of Arguments
To Provide Different Double-Click and Drop Behavior
Restricting an Action Based on the Mode of the Argument

Creating Actions that Run Applications on Remote Systems

Creating an Action that Runs a Remote Application

Using Variables in Action and Data Type Definitions

Using String Variables in an Action
Using Environment Variables in Actions and Data Types

Invoking Actions from a Command Line

Syntax of dtaction
Creating an Action that Runs Another Action
Creating an Action that Runs as a Different User

Creating Localized Actions

Locations for Localized Actions
To Localize an Existing Action

Creating Actions for ToolTalk Applications

addressing and disposition Fields

There are two ways to create actions:

Using the Create Action desktop application
Manually creating an action definition

Creating an action manually requires you to edit a database file. This chapter describes how to manually create action definitions.

“Reasons You Must Create an Action Manually”

“Creating an Action Manually: General Steps”

“Building the Execution String for a COMMAND Action”

“Windowing Support and Terminal Emulators for COMMAND Actions”

“Restricting Actions to Certain Arguments”

“Creating Actions that Run Applications on Remote Systems”

“Using Variables in Action and Data Type Definitions”

“Invoking Actions from a Command Line”

“Creating Localized Actions”

“Creating Actions for ToolTalk Applications”

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