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From: "Joseph E. Van_Riper III" <JVANRIPER@UNCA.EDU>
To: AmigaE@bkhouse.cts.com
Subject: Re: E Guru! (icon routines)
Jeffrey J Peden ][ graciously types:
(source removed for bandwidth)
| I thought that locks from workbench WERE NOT supposed to be released.
That was what I thought, too, but I found that I couldn't delete the directory
afterwards (at leave, WB 2.04 doesn't seem to), so I started unlocking them
myself. It doesn't crash or anything, so...
| What, PROGDIR: ? That's a nifty little thing that works like an assign
|to the directory the program was launched from. (OR the current dir from
|Shell) That's what I'm using for now...until I decide to put in the above.
|It works, lets me assign tooltypes, and get them.
It wasn't good enough for me.. I wanted to read the tooltypes for icons that
were projects rather than tools (so my users could have different "preferences"
for different icons to run Quip from), and I found this to be the best way for
me to do that.
| I haven't yet decided wheter I'm going to release my source code yet. I
|may require people who want it to give me a phone call. (I figure everyone
|can spend $1 to talk with the author, and find out all the little
|idiosyncrosies (sp) before they go delving into it. I don't really want to
|let the source out in Europe, cause there could be some mutation of it going
|around and I'de never see it :-) Oh well...
That's cool.. I've been wanting to get this project out, though, and I've done
a lot of work to get things working as well as possible, but perhaps someone
else might find a better way to do my routines, so I'm releasing the source
code. Also, I really don't have enough time to keep up with it, so I am sorta
hoping that someone will pick up part of the project (particularly, I would
love it if someone would modify the code to handle compressed quips..
especially using IFF and XPK routines). I'll eventually wind up doing it
myself, if nobody else does, but in the meantime, if someone is impatient for
some fixes or whatever, they'll be able to program it themselves.
I'm releasing Quip today to wuarchive.wustl.edu (I'll be deciding where in just
a little bit.. been having some problems uploading the archive to my VAX site
due to a lack of workspace <sigh>). If everyone would like, I'll compress the
source code and release it uuencoded to this list.. although anyone with FTP
access will be able to get at the source code anyway, so perhaps this option
should be discouraged <chuckle>. I source code comes to about 2000 lines,
including comments, and might have a few bugs in it (Quip's been tested fairly
carefully, but I still can't get the darned thing to handle external commands
that well.. don't know WHAT the problem can be).
For those who don't know what my Quip project is, it's simply a fortune cookie
program, however, it's a fortune cookie program from HELL.. it has more
features than any other fortune cookie program in existence. It has so many
features, I decided to create a scripting 'language' for it (for more
flexibility). My goal was to create a cookie program usable by anyone for
virtually any purpose. You may have to go through some hoops, but Quip comes
close to delivering on its promise. Most of what has been slowing me up lately
has been a desire to get the compression work in (which I finally decided to
give up on for this release, and is the reason why I uuencoded the XPK mods for
everyone earlier), and I wanted to re-write the documentation so people without
AmigaGuide could read the docs.
- Trey