To Create a Multilevel Action for the Alternate Mail Application

1. Assume the Security Administrator role and go to an ADMIN_LOW workspace.

2. Use the Admin Editor action from the System_Admin folder to bring up the /usr/dt/appconfig/types/C/dtwm.fp file to edit.

3. Find the control section for mail shown below.

   CONTROL Mail { TYPE icon CONTAINER_NAME Top CONTAINER_TYPE BOX POSITION_HINTS 5 ICON DTmail LABEL Mail ALTERNATE_ICON DtMnew MONITOR_TYPE mail DROP_ACTION Compose PUSH_ACTION DTWmail PUSH_RECALL true CLIENT_NAME dtmail HELP_TOPIC FPOnItemMail HELP_VOLUME FPanel }

4. Copy the control text to a file whose name has the .fp extension, for example, mail.fp, and quit the dtwm.fp file.

5. Bring up the Admin Editor action from the System_Admin folder and open the new mail.fp file for editing.

6. Change the title of the mail control to OW_Mail.

   CONTROL OW_Mail

7. Change the following variables to the following values:

   ICON OWmailtool LABEL OW Mail Tool PUSH_ACTION OWmailtool CLIENT_NAME mailtool

   The ICON field identifies the icon of the replacement application.

   The LABEL field changes the icon label that appears with the icon of the replacement application.

   The PUSH_ACTION field identifies the replacement action to be run when the user clicks on the new mail icon. The action name supplied here must be defined in the one of the application search paths. The OWmailtool action shown is defined in sunOW.dt in the /usr/dt/appconfig/types/locale directory.

   The CLIENT_NAME field identifies the executable for the replacement application. The path for CLIENT_NAME must be defined by an EXEC_STRING in the action's definition. For example, the OWmailtool action has EXEC_STRING defined as /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool.

8. Change DROP_ACTION or leave as shown below.

   DROP_ACTION Compose

   Other mailers may or may not have a Compose action. For example, OpenWindows mailtool does not. If you leave the DROP_ACTION as Compose, if someone drags mail to the mail icon, a dtmail Compose window will come up. If you remove the DROP_ACTION, nothing happens if mail is dragged to the mail icon.

9. Leave the rest of the variables unchanged, as shown below.

   TYPE icon CONTAINER_NAME Top CONTAINER_TYPE BOX POSITION_HINTS 5 ALTERNATE_ICON DtMnew MONITOR_TYPE mail PUSH_RECALL true HELP_TOPIC FPOnItemMail HELP_VOLUME FPanel

   When PUSH_RECALL is true, an application that is launched for a second time uses an existing application window.

10. Save the changes and quit the file.

11. Place the mail.fp file, in an accessible directory, such as $HOME/secadmin.

    $ mv mail.fp /home/secadmin/cde_changes/