Does the little icon supposed to stay gray until it gets new mail like
mine does or should it have some other picture till new mail arrives?
I did the process below but have a gray icon until I use the new mail
program and tell it that I have new mail then I get a picture. At first
cause I was looking something other than I grey box I thought I was
having problems due to running XWP but finally I saw the little grey box
(doesn't stick out overly well at 1600 x 1200 without knowing exactly
where it will be). In case this makes a difference to I am running ECS
1.02.
Andy
Michael Kaply wrote:
> Unbeknownst to most people, there is an undocumented way to get a new
> mail indicator on the WarpCenter. At some point we are going to hook
> this up to Mozilla, but first we have to get people's machines
> configured.
>
> It involves creating an icon on your desktop with an object ID of
> <CCINBOX>
>
> Here is the rexx code:
>
> /* */
> call RxFuncAdd 'SysCreateObject', 'RexxUtil', 'SysCreateObject'
> result = SysCreateObject('WPProgram', 'Mozilla Mail', '<WP_DESKTOP>',
> 'OBJECTID=<CCINBOX>');
>
> You can then customize this object to open mozilla -mail
>
> If you were to reboot now, you would have an extra gray box on your
> WarpCenter.
>
> The reason it is gray is because for some reason, the OS/2 people chose
> to remove the actual icons used for the mail item. Don't reboot yet.
>
> Here is how you can get them back.
>
> Download this tool:
>
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/resmgr.zip
>
> If it is not there, it got moved to:
>
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/util/resmgr.zip
>
> Create a temporary directory and make a copy of your OS2\DLL\SCENTER.DLL
> there.
>
> Get the newmail.zip that I have placed here:
>
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/warpzilla/newmail.zip
>
> Unzip newmail.zip into the temporary directory.
>
> unzip the resmgr.zip tool.
>
> If you want to change the icons, feel free, but to just get what I have
> done, type:
>
> resmgr -a scenter.dll scenter.res
>
> Now reboot OS/2 and use the Alt+F1 trick to go to a command line and
> replace your OS2\DLL\SCENTER.DLL with the one that we just created.
>
> Reboot.
>
> Your Warpcenter should now have a mail icon.
>
> I have placed a mailtest application in the ZIP file so you can run it
> and see how the icon changes when you have new mail. It's called
> mailtest.exe.
>
> If you want to customize the icons, edit mail.bmp or newmail.bmp, then
> run the resource compiler to recreate scenter.res.
>
> Then follow the process I outlined above.
>
> Please let me know how this goes and if anyone could streamline this
> process, that would be great.
>
> Mike Kaply
> IBM
>
>
