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- (This is a RISC OS 2 appl. It could run under RISC OS 3 though)
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- I have at least four directory selectors, you know, those progs to
- select a dir as the 'current directory' from the desktop.
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- One of them is !Menon (but to sel a dir is not its primary purpose) which
- does this by watching for Ctrl+Tab being pressed and then selects the dir
- under the pointer. Quick and fussless but you're stuck when an editor's running
- (isn't one always ?) which traps Ctrl+Tab and one of its windows is getting
- input. Don't know about RO>2, but in RO<3 you would need to close the window
- first if you don't have a nice caret killer like !windAwrap or !Karaganda
- (which is not their primary purpose though).
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- Of course you don't want to close a window (read: save you document first)
- in order to just select a dir. So you also have !SetDir installed and in a
- situation like ^ you simply drag its @ from the icon bar to the directory
- viewer you need. Or you find !Dir more useful because it allows you to drag
- files AND directories to its i.b. icon and selects a directory accordingly.
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- Very nice but most of the time you're not in the vicinity of the icon bar
- (let alone a particular icon) and will have to walk across whole of the
- desktop (until you happen to have a nice wrapper like !windAwrap or !Karaganda,
- which too is not their primary purpose). Tedious in MODE 12 and deadly
- in MODE 102 (my version is 1152x448)
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- Of course you're very busy writing a new major Archimedes hit and can't
- waste any time. You decide therefore to have both !Menon and !SetDir / !Dir
- running. But alas! the new major Archimedes hit is taking up mucho of
- your memory, leaving room for one more appl only. So you stick to one of
- those mentioned selectors and that's the reason why your new major Archimedes
- hit is going to not crop up in the foreseeable future
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- My n.m.A.h. is almost finished cause I have the 3-way-dir-selector
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- And so will be yours now that you have the 3wds too
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- But don't forget:
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- the 3wds was inspired by
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- 6) !Menon, written by Joris RÖling.
- In fact, I got so used to Ctrl+Tab selecting a directory that I
- decided to choose the same combination.
- 7) !Dir, written by don't know whom.
- My hard disc died two weeks ago (requiescat in pace) and took with it the
- index of archives. I have too many of them to look for one
- 8) !SetDir, this was written by ... second ... Main Menu, StrongHelp, aha,
- Guttorm 'ArmStrong' Vik
- It's a wonder he managed to accomplish his two m.A.h.'s without 3wds
- ( Btw, !SetDir attempts to 'select' ANY window you drag its @ to.
- Try !Paint and (he he) !StrongED2 )
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- Ok, those were inspirations, now come stealings
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- From my 'Icons' floppy, where I put all nice icons:
- The directory icon, 't was named !zansi, must be from Alfred Tascon (sp?)
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- The 'visual signal' icon (into which dir turns for half a second) was
- 'Get Screen Area'd from J.RÖling's !VarEdit
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- I hope they don't mind too much
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- In case they do, below's my address
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