Adding a Helper Application

Both Cosmo Worlds and Cosmo Create use a database that contains information on all helper applications they use. This file is installed as /usr/lib/CosmoCreate/plugins/PiHelperAppDB.txt.

You need to add an entry to this file for each helper application (also referred to as a "plug-in application") that you want to access through Cosmo Worlds or Cosmo Create. The entries in the database file look like this:

Begin
 ID: com.sgi.cosmo.photoshop
 UINAME: Photoshop
 REPTYPE: PiUnixApp
 FLAVOR: Editor
 EXECUTABLE: photoshop
 ARGS: -open %f
 PIXMAP: photoshop.xpm
 NATIVE: PhotoshopDocument
 FILETYPES: PhotoshopDocument GIFImageFile TIFFImage SGIImage
End

Go to Helper Application Database File for detailed information on the format of the database file.

For each application, you also need to add a pixmap. The database file contains an entry specifying the relative location of the pixmap for each helper application.

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