Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

To Create Actions and Data Types Using Create Action

This procedure uses the Create Action utility to create an action and data types for the application.

For more information about Create Action, use its online help or see Chapter 11, Creating Actions and Data Types Using Create Action.

  1. Open the Desktop_Apps application group and double-click Create Action.

  2. Use Create Action to create the action and data type definitions for the application and its data type.

    The configuration file created by Create Action will be written to HomeDirectory/.dt/type/action_name.dt. The action file (the executable file with the same name as the action) is placed in your home directory.

  3. Test the action using the action file created in your home directory.

  4. Copy the action definition file HomeDirectory/.dt/type/action_name.dt to the app_root/dt/appconfig/types/language directory.

  5. After the application group directory has been created (see Step 7: Creating the Application Group), copy the action file HomeDirectory/action_name to the app_root/dt/appconfig/appmanager/language/appgroup_name directory.