{"id":599,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=599"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"launch-edit-icons-via-double-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Launch \/ edit icons via double-click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, if you want to edit an icon (such as one you might find in a downloadable icon pack at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/\">BeBits<\/a>), you need to access its FileType panel by right-clicking and selecting Add-Ons | FileType. While this isn&#8217;t terribly difficult (and you can always use the Alt+Opt+F shortcut), you can set things up so they launch in FileTypes with a quick double-click. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the system&#8217;s FileTypes preferences panel and select the &#8222;application&#8220; supertype on the left.\n<li>Click Add&#8230; . For the Type Name, enter &#8222;Icon File&#8220;. For the internal name, enter &#8222;x-vnd.Icon&#8220;.\n<li>Close and re-open FileTypes. You&#8217;ll now find Application\/Icon File in the hierarchy on the left. Select it.\n<li>In the Preferred Application section, click &#8222;Select&#8220; and navigate to \/boot\/beos\/preferences\/FileTypes. BeOS will warn you that this may not be an appropriate association. Click &#8222;Set Anyway&#8220;.\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now when you double-click an icon file, FileTypes will launch, and a FileType panel for that icon will be launched in front of it. You can edit the icon by double-clicking in the icon well to bring up Icon-o-Matic.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, Icon-o-Matic cannot be launched as a seperate application, without going through FileTypes first.<br \/>\n<b>Bonus tip:<\/b> Once this is set up, you can also launch an icon in FileTypes by double-clicking an icon in a Get Info panel (select a file and tap Alt+I).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, if you want to edit an icon (such as one you might find in a downloadable icon pack at BeBits), you need to access its FileType panel by right-clicking and selecting Add-Ons | FileType. While this isn&#8217;t terribly difficult (and you can always use the Alt+Opt+F shortcut), you can set things up so they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}