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Topic: Question about creating .uci extensions, Help on icons and menus

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hawki

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Posted: June 29 2005,22:46

I've looked around and haven't found all I think I need to know to correctly build .uci extensions. I deconstructed a couple existing extensions and believe I got the application, the user.tar.gz, and /tmp/mydsl.menu files all correct. In order to get the icon on the desktop I put the icon and lnk files in the user.tar.gz file. The downside is that when I unload the extension the icon does not get removed from the desktop. It seems like the menu item does get removed.

Is there a way to use /tmp/mydsl.icons to load and unload the icons. If so please share.

thanks

mikshaw

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Posted: June 30 2005,03:00

Make sure the package, icon, and menu item all have the exact same name. So if your package is blahBlah1.0.uci, the icon files should be blahBlah1.0.lnk and blahBlah1.0.png

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ke4nt1

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Posted: June 30 2005,07:04

mikshaw is so sharp !..

see here that your /tmp/mydsl.menu/foobar filename matches as well.

name of extension = foobar.uci
name of link = foobar.lnk
name of icon = foobar.png
name of mydsl file = tmp/mydsl.menu/foobar
( and inside the foobar file, the beginning of the title needs
to match closely, but uniquely, to the extension )
e.g. Foobar Install , not Install Foobar

73
ke4nt

hawki

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Posted: June 30 2005,13:50

Thanks guys
I retried the same thing I was doing yesterday and everything is working. The fog may have cleared this morning.

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