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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AppIcons: HOW? WHICH APPS?
- Keywords: prowrite
- Message-ID: <C017pM.46K@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:39:20 GMT
- References: <schuncke.725520336@cwis>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- schuncke@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Schuncke) writes:
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- >Which programs support App(Icon|Window) in the standard WB2.x releases?
-
- Good question - anything that uses the ASL (standard) file requester does,
- in a way, since ASL requesters are appwindows (drag an icon onto one and
- it goes to that directory, selects that file).
-
- There are a good number of commercial apps starting to do this, but some,
- like ProWrite, are awkward. For example, ProWrite always opens an AppIcon
- on the Workbench, which you can drop files onto to have ProWrite load them
- up. Well, this is all very nice until you set ProWrite to open on the
- workbench screen. It doesn't remove the AppIcon and become an AppWindow,
- as it should. You can't drop files into its window! This really stinks,
- to put it bluntly. It's a pain to have to find the Workbench *under* the
- largish ProWrite window (they should also let you set a magnification for
- the view so you can make it use up less of your valuable desktop space),
- then drop a file on the AppIcon, when the window's *right there*!
-
- >+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- >| John L. Schuncke, Jr. schuncke@cwis.unomaha.edu |
- >| Standard Meaningless Disclaimer: You're takin' this WAY too seriously. |
- >+------------I Have Seen the FUN!!!--Zippy the Programmer-------------------+
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- Jake Rose :: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu :: Every silver lining has a cloud inside it.
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