Xicon-H works great- thanks Pete Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: haiku-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:12:47 To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [haiku] Re: Drag and Drop icon On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:50:06PM +0000, Jimmy wrote: > > Can anybody point me to info on creating a drag and drop icon? > > Specifically > > an icon I can drop a text file on to launch a shell script to act on > > it? > > I think you mean xicon [1]. Don't know if that still works on Haiku... > It doesn't work :-( that's why I need an alternative :-) Should work fine! I use it for everything on Haiku... (:-)) What exactly doesn't work? Are you sure you have the Haiku version (1.3-H)? (The old BeOS version doesn't run.) And you *have* read the setup instructions, right? (:-/) Give me details on what's wrong (off-list if you like) and I'll try to help you get it working. -- Pete --