Hi Christiaan, The reason I asked is that I thought it could be possible via the same mechanism BibDesk uses to display the paperclip icon in the “Local File” column. Since the bdsk-file-* fields are simply alphanumeric encodings of an alias, I’m guessing that BibDesk checks to see if one or more bdsk-file-* fields are present and, if so, then displays the paperclip icon at the appropriate place in the row, rather than the literal contents of the bdsk-file-* field.
Since an “Annote” or “Abstract” field is going to have far too many characters to display any useful information, it would be nice to find some kind of alternative indicator to note that the field is present. Right now, I can certainly fake that by beginning every “Annote” or “Abstract” entry with “*” or “•” or “X”, so that the only thing displayed is that character, but since BibDesk already has icon-indicating capability for the “Local File” column, it might be nice if that could be extended. Perhaps the rule could simply be: if a column as a custom-icon, add an option (set using “defaults write -app BibDesk” so that the user-interface doesn’t need to be cluttered with an option most users would not need) so that if the contents of that field are non-empty, the custom-icon is displayed rather than the field contents at the appropriate place in the row. Many thanks for the reply, Jason On 24 Mar 2022, at 14:46, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 24 Mar 2022, at 12:38, Alexander,J <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello, I would like to configure BibDesk so that entries which have an Annote entry have a little notepad icon appearing in the table — similar to how the paperclip icon appears if an entry has an attached file and the “Local File” column shown. I have followed the instructions from the helpfile, and have set things up so that the icon is now appearing in the header (a screenshot is shown here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3mvs37yeoug8ui/bibdesk-header.png?dl=0). However, the *text* of the Annote field is shown, and really I would like the notepad icon to be shown. Is this possible? If so, could someone please advise on how to do it? Many thanks, Jason No, that is not possible. And there would not be any way to make that possible. The way the content of a field is displayed in the table cells is determined by the type of fields, as set in the Fields preferences. And the app then determines how that is displayed. It would not be possible to tell the app to do something different, I could not even think how that could possibly be done. Christiaan _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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