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=Enabling Double-Click=
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== Double-clicking on OWL files ==
  
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This is a work in development and when this is better tested this functionality will be better integrated into the Protege 4 OWL editor. (This will probably happen within the next couple of builds after the upcoming beta release.) Thanks to Alan Ruttenberg for contributing the OS X portion of this plugin.
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For all operating systems except OS X, Protege 4 works with double-click as installed - you simply follow the usual OS specific steps for indicating which application to use to open an OWL file. In the case of OS X there is an extra adjustment that needs to be done (we are working on removing this extra step).
  
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For the time being, there is a slight problem with the first double-click. The welcome dialog sticks around when it really should be hidden.  This is fixed in the latest svn and will work properly in the next build.
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If you are trying to enable double-click on an OS X machine, follow the instructions from [[ChangingTheHeapSize#Editting_the_Info.plist|editing the Info.plist]] to open the Info.plist file with a text editor.  Add the following lines underneath any other key/value pair:
  
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==OS X==
 
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In this case, apple has to handle double-clicking in a different way from all operating systems past and future.  But the web (and in this case Alan Ruttenberg) has all the answers
 
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Follow the instructions from [[ChangingTheHeapSize#Editting_the_Info.plist|Editing the Info.plist]] to open the Info.plist file with a text editor.  Add the following lines underneath some other key/value pair:
 
 
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and copy the [http://smi-protege.stanford.edu/repos/protege/protege4/small-projects/org.protege.editor.bootstrap/trunk/Bootstrap.jar Bootstrap.jar] file into the plugins directory.  After build 101 you will no longer need to copy the Bootstrap.jar file.  The OS X specific code is already included in the core editing framework.
 
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Now Protege is ready for double-click functionality.  Probably due to some setting on my machines, I have not yet succeeded in fully enabling double click.  But I can enable the open-with menu.
 
  
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[[Image:OwlDoubleClickOsXOpenWith.png|Selecting the application to open an owl file]]
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Now configure double-click as you would with any other OS X application.
  
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Then navigate to and select the Protege application.  You will probably want to select "Always open with" and you may need to choose "All Applications" in order to find protege.
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Thanks are due to Alan Ruttenberg for his suggestion on how to enable double-click on the OS X platform.
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[[Image:OwlDoubleClickOsXOpenWithOptions.png|Selecting the open options]]
 
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Now if you right click on a file and select Protege Application the Protege application will open the desired file.
 
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== Other Operating Systems ==
 
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Now we come to the rest of the world (hopefully you are running linux but this probably works for windows).  Edit the Protege.lax file with a text editor to change the main class,
 
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and the class path,
 
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lax.class.path=org.eclipse.osgi.jar:lax.jar:Bootstrap.jar
 
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Now right click on an owl file and request to open it with Protege.
 

Latest revision as of 16:41, September 30, 2008

Double-clicking on OWL files

For all operating systems except OS X, Protege 4 works with double-click as installed - you simply follow the usual OS specific steps for indicating which application to use to open an OWL file. In the case of OS X there is an extra adjustment that needs to be done (we are working on removing this extra step).

If you are trying to enable double-click on an OS X machine, follow the instructions from editing the Info.plist to open the Info.plist file with a text editor. Add the following lines underneath any other key/value pair: 

        <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
                <array>
                    <string>owl</string>
                </array>
                <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
                <string>OWL Ontology</string>
                <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
                <string>Viewer</string>
            </dict>
        </array>

Now configure double-click as you would with any other OS X application.

Thanks are due to Alan Ruttenberg for his suggestion on how to enable double-click on the OS X platform.

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