From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
Subject: Re: how to delete palette icon from IB preferences?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:22:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.140407.15874@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu  
(Michael B. Johnson) writes:
> Paul Burchard writes
> > In article <1992Nov8.015021.23023@news.media.mit.edu>  
> wave@waits.media.mit.edu  
> > (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
> > > Dick Silbar writes
> > > > In trying to develop a custom palette (actually, help Charlie Fletcher
> > > > get nxyPalette working on 3.0) I found the following annoying "feature"
> > > > of the 3.0 Interface Builder.  You can have multiple copies of the 
> > > > palette icon in the Preferences panel which allows you to load or unload
> > > > a palette more quickly than going through the Tools menu item.   
> Fortunately
> > > > the pathname is given, so you can sort out which palette is which.
> > > > UNfortunately, I can't seem to delete the bad ones from that panel 
> > > > (employing the usual GUI tricks of highlight + <del> or <cmd-x>).
> > > > 
> > > > What's the trick here?
> > > > 
> > > >    Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
> > > 
> > > There must be a better way than this, but here's a trick I use:
> > > 
> > > Go into your ~/.NeXT directory, and look for a file called defaults.nibd.   
> > > There are three fields of interest:
> > 
> > I may be misunderstanding your question, but the directions are right on the  
> prefs panel.  It says  "double click to install/uninstall", and indeed, double  
> clicking will both unload the palette and change your IB prefs.
> > 
> 
> I think what he is asking is how to get it out of the list in Preferences.  You  
> can unload it, but it's still taking up space.  Why would this matter?  Well,  
> in my case, I'm developing palettes, and I might have a lot of versions of a  
> palette floating around, and I don't want the old grotty ones around to be  
> clicked on.

All the advice I have seen so far still requires IB to be restarted.
If you're willing to restart it, you can just follow the directions....
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 item.   
> Fortunately
> > > > the pathname is given, so you can sort out which palette is which.
> > > > UNfortunately, I can't seem to delete the bad ones from that panel 
> > > > (employing the usual GUI tricks of highlight + <del> or <cmd-x>).
> > > > 
> > > > What's the trick here?
> > > > 
> > > >    Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
> > > 
> > > There must be a better way than this, but here's a trick I use:
> > > 
> > > Go into your ~/.NeXT directory, and look for a file called defaults.nibd.   
> > > There are three fields of interest:
> > 
> > I may be misunderstanding your question, but the directions are right on the  
> prefs panel.  It says  "double click to install/uninstall", and indeed, double  
> clicking will both unload the palette and change your IB prefs.
> > 
> 
> I think what he is asking is how to get it out of the list in Preferences.  You  
> can unload it, but it's still taking up space.  Why would this matter?  Well,  
> in my case, I'm developing palettes, and I might have a lot of versions of a  
> palette floating around, and I don't want the old grotty ones around to be  
> clicked on.

All the advice I have seen so far still requires IB to be restarted.
If you're willing to restart it, you can just follow the directions....
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