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- From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.004421.4770@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- References: <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:44:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
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- >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).
-
- I think multiple-drag sprites look a bit silly to be honest!
-
- >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-
-
- neat! Of course don't need to modify the filer - just have your dirs
- as apps which when double-clicked on open a subdir, etc.
-
- >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?
-
- This person who has done a dragsprite filer thinks he is going to distribute
- it as a !Patch type thing ;-)
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- Nick Smith, Rm.226, Churchill College, Cambridge ! Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
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