Associating Data Types with Actions

There are two ways that data types are associated with actions:

• The ACTIONS field in the DATA_ATTRIBUTES definition lists the actions that will appear in File Manager's Selected menu. The first action in the list is the default (double-click) action.

• Actions can be restricted to specified data types using the action definition's ARG_TYPE field.

  For example, the following data type definition creates a data type for special “readme” files created by your system administrator that use the naming convention *.rm.

  DATA_ATTRIBUTES SysReadmeFile
   {
   	ICON						SysReadMe
   	ACTIONS					Open,Respond
   }
   DATA_CRITERIA SysReadmeFileCriteria
   {
   	NAME_PATTERN						*.rm
   	DATA_ATTRIBUTES_NAME 			SysReadmeFile
   }

  A special Respond action is defined below for the file. It opens a writable copy of the file in Text Editor. When the file is saved and Text Editor is exited, the file is mailed to the system administrator (mail address sysadmin@utd).

  ACTION Respond
   {
   	ARG_TYPE				SysReadmeFile
   	EXEC_STRING			/bin/sh -c 'cp %Arg_1% $HOME/readme.temp;\
   							chmod +w $HOME/readme.temp;              \
   							dtpad $HOME/readme.temp;                 \
   							cat $HOME/readme.temp |                  \
   							/usr/bin/mailx sysadmin@utd;             \
   							rm $HOME/readme.temp'
   	WINDOW_TYPE			NO_STDIO
   }