Configuring the Application Group To Use a Unique Icon

The desktop provides a default application-group icon. However, you will probably want to provide a custom icon.

If you want to provide a unique icon for the application group, you must create:

• A data type for the directory that appears at the top level of Application Manager.

• Open and Print actions for the data type.

  For example, suppose you want to create an application group named Media_Tools. The following data type definition, placed in a file app_root/dt/appconfig/types/language/name.dt, assigns a unique icon to the application group icon.

  DATA_ATTRIBUTES  Media_ToolsAppgroup
   {
      ACTIONS       OpenInPlace,OpenNewView
      ICON          MediaTools
      DESCRIPTION   Double-click to open the Media_Tools \
                    application group
   }

  DATA_CRITERIA		Media_ToolsAppgroupCriteria1
   {
      DATA_ATTRIBUTES_NAME Media_ToolsAppgroup
      MODE                 d
      PATH_PATTERN         */appmanager/*/Media_Tools
   } 

  The attributes section of the definition specifies the icon to be used. The criteria section of the definition specifies that the data type be defined to any directory named Media_Tools that is a subdirectory of a directory named appmanager.

  Figure 5–9 shows the relationship between the application group name and the data type definition. The PATH_PATTERN field in the data type definition connects a unique icon to the application group.

Figure 5–9 How an application group gets a unique icon

You should also create an Open and Print action for the application group data type:

ACTION Open
 {
 	ARG_TYPE			Media_ToolsAppGroup
 	TYPE				MAP
 	MAP_ACTION		OpenAppGroup
 }

ACTION Print
 {
 	ARG_TYPE			Media_ToolsAppGroup
 	TYPE				MAP
 	MAP_ACTION		PrintAppGroup
 }

OpenAppGroup and PrintAppGroup actions are built-in actions defined in /usr/dt/appconfig/types/language/dtappman.dt.