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- From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
- Subject: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:47:41 GMT
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- Hi again,
-
- There's been alot of talk about getting the filer and pinboard to use
- DragASprite. The filer actually uses it but only when you follow the menu and
- copy a file by dragging it from the resulting save as window. Acorn HAVE been
- consistent in the fact that DragASprite is only ever used from a saveas window.
-
- Some of you may wonder why the filer and pinboard don't use DragASprite. Well
- drag a sprite is only designed to drag one sprite and when copying files
- by dragging things between filer windows you can drag more than one file.
- (Same on pinboard). This would require more than one sprite. Now what acorn
- could have done is allowed solid drag when dragging one file but think of the
- confusion when someone drags more than one file! Hence the sensible decision
- we see now.
-
- Ok it is possible to do. All you need to do is plot the multiple files you
- are going to drag in a sprite and then drag that larger sprite. (I may work
- on this if no one else succedes).
-
- My filer is already modified so that I can have sprites for normal directories
- not just the ones with a ! at the beginning. This allows me to draw a little
- picture in the lower half of a directory sprite depicting what the directory
- contains. (eg my games directory is a standard directory sprite with a pac-
- man drawn in the lower half.) This is all done by adding the character that
- looks like a sun (well how am I supposed to describe it) before the directory
- name. (let * represent the sun) eg *games and sm*games will provide the large
- and small icons for the games directory.
-
- Unfortunately I don't think I could post my Filer2 module as the main code
- is copyright Acorn. How does the person who is going to attempt a dragasprite
- filer think they are going to distribute it?
-
- Bye for now,
-
-
- Andrew Hersee
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