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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 6 May 1994 13:58:54 MST
From: "Art Eschenlauer" <eschen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu>
Message-Id: <9405061905.AA21241@molbio.cbs.umn.edu>
Subject: Call for alpha testers of IClip 0.1 for Mac
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Fri, 6 May 94 14:05:23 CDT
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I am looking for volunteers to test/try/use IClip, a derivative of
the stand-alone Macintosh version of Icon version 8. The idea is that I
wanted a way to use the superb filtering capabilities of Icon in a
relatively mac-like way from all applications.
IClip reads standard input from the Mac Clipboard, applies an icon
program to it, and writes it back to the clipboard. The Icon programs
used are simply very-slightly-modified ICOD files, the ones iconx uses
in the stand-alone Icon version 8. (The modification is that the creator
is changed from Iconx to IClip.) Thus, new routines can be built and
debugged with the standalone package and then converted to IClip format
AFTER they have been translated. All I do is put the files in my Apple
menu items folder (under system 7). When I want to use them, I simply
copy the text I want filtered to the clipboard from whatever application
I am running (e.g., MSWord), select the filter program off the apple menu
and paste the result whereever I want it. Ultimately, this will form the
core for a set of frequently needed molecular biology routines (translating
mRNA sequence into protein sequence, determining complementary sequences,
formatting sequences for publication, etc.) which are easy to write in Icon
(a lot easier than in C, I must say!).
Version 0.1 alpha is up and running and hasn't crashed yet. If you are inter-
ested in using Icon on your mac for filtering tasks, i.e., without input
from the keyboard, send me email at
eschen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu.
Also, if you know about cool molecular biology routines in Icon that I
could or should convert, please let me know. Thanks.
- Art Eschenlauer