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 Published by Pete Goodeve
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 Date Posted:   February 15th, 2000
 Last Updated:   May 18th, 2009
 License: See Below
 Downloads: 2,069 total; 62 recently
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About xicon:
This little utility provides a couple of facilities for executing a shell script via icon-click that are not available otherwise: By default, a script is executed in a Terminal window, so the user can see results and interact with it. Other icons can be dragged and dropped onto the script icon as arguments. You can also invoke non-shell scripts (e.g. Python) directly in the same way.

You don't execute xicon directly: it is invoked automatically by any
script that has been set up suitably, when you either double-click on
that script's icon, or drag other icons onto it. If you drag icons onto
a script icon, they will be presented as command-line arguments to the
script. (A 'script' is a textual command-sequence file that would
otherwise be executed by typing a command line in a Terminal window.
This is most commonly a standard shell (bash) script, but may be in
any language that has an available command-line-invoked interpreter.)
The utility is intended as a convenient GUI-based mechanism for executing
user-written scripts -- to perform common sequences of operations on
files, for example. The procedure for associating a script with xicon
is detailed in the documentation.
Haiku version
version 1.3-H - Freeware 
   
Variation description:
This is the venerable original xicon code, with the minor necessary changes to run under Haiku. (Not suitable for BeOS, despit the stated "Minimum Version"!)

Details about this version:
The Haiku version only has minor internal changes from the BeOS xicon 1.3. Usage is the same.

 
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Original
version 1.3 - Freeware 
   
Details about this version:
Version 1.3 (Feb 2000) is not much different from previous ones, but adds a 'Title' feature, has somewhat expanded docs, and includes a Makefile setup package that might be useful.

With the release of BeOS R5, there is another feature of xicon 1.3 that you can make use of. You can set the size of the Terminal window that is opened by adding a 'geom' attribute to your script. For details see the web page. (This is not a new release -- the 1.3 version you already downloaded has this capability.)

 
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PowerPC Version - requires R4   (40 KB) 333 downloads
 
 
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