Hi Simon, On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:57, Simon Dean wrote: > Hi there. > > When a file is viewed in a listview, what particular characteristic of the > file is compared to the 'pattern' part of the relevant Mime in order to > determine which icon to display? In root.mimes, there seems to be an > ambiguity because there is an entry for both 'TFile' and files with the > suffix '.root'. Which Mime has priority? (I can't tell because they have > the same icon assigned) > The list of mimetypes is searched from top to bottom. So the first item found matching the pattern is used. > > Also, using the 'gClient->GetMimeType()->AddType()' construct, is there > any way of overriding the existing MIME-types. In other words, if I wanted > to supply my own icon for a filename with a format like 'simon*.root' how > could I get around the obvious ambiguity with the current '*.root' Mime. > You cannot override in the current version since the mime type will be added to the end of the list. I'll change that. What you can do is copy $ROOTSYS/etc/root.mimes to ~/.root.mimes and add your custom mime types at the top of the file. Cheers, Fons. -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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