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- From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.165801.464@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 16:58:01 GMT
- Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
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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.
-
- Yes this is what I used to do however tis not a very good solution :
-
- i) Takes more disc space for !Run etc + 2 directories
- ii) You can not use adjust click on the resulting directory to take you back
- to the parent of the !directory. (Although I got round this problem
- in RO2 by having an app inside the !directory which had a !boot file
- which closed !directory and opened it's parent. Unfortunately this
- only works once in RO3)
-
- I think my solution is the most flexible solution. But would be interested
- in any other revolutionary idea :-)
-
-
- >>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 ;-)
-
- Yes this is what I thought of doing however I have a few problems:
-
- I have inserted approx 1k into the code thus certain address have changed
- and also need changing. Does anyone know how one writes a patch file
- for Acorn's patch utility or am I talking a load of you know what?
-
- Is there enough demand for me to alter this?
-
- In fact why don't I get together with 'this person' and we could release a
- patch which did both solid drags and nice directory sprites?
-
- Andrew Hersee
-