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- From: icwhiting@dra.hmg.gb (Ian Whiting)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:01:45 GMT
- Organization: Defence Research Agency
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- kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) wrote:
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- >>> 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing Commdities,
- >>> launching programs , and managing public screens.
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- >> Hmm. I do agree that we need some sort of OS-supported way of managing
- >>public screens, such as MUI's PSI, but with on-demand opening and closing, I
- >>don't think the best way to implement that is through an ARexx port to
- >>Workbench.
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- >You mean you can script the WorkBench on the oh so powerful Amiga. The Mac
- >has been scriptable for at least two years.
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- I don't know exactly what planet you have come from Karl Thomas, but
- we are talking about opening up seperate screens here. A concept which
- you probably don't even know about unless you have seen an Amiga do
- it. Try having seperate screens of completly different resolutions and
- colours displayed on your Mac screen at exactly the same time!!!!!!!
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