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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide
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Preface
1. Configuring Login Manager
2. Configuring Session Manager
3. Troubleshooting Login and Session Startup Problems
4. Adding and Administering Applications
5. Registering an Application
6. Miscellaneous Configurations
7. Configuring the Desktop in a Network
8. Configuring and Administering Printing from the Desktop
9. Desktop Search Paths
10. Introduction to Actions and Data Types
11. Creating Actions and Data Types Using Create Action
12. Creating Actions Manually
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
Unsupported Messages
13. Creating Data Types Manually
14. Creating Icons for the Desktop
15. Advanced Front Panel Customization
16. Customizing the Workspace Manager
17. Administering Application Resources, Fonts, and Colors
18. Configuring Localized Desktop Sessions
A. dtconfig(1) Man Page
Index
To Create an Action Manually