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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!shunger
- From: shunger@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.113426.12032@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 11:34:26 +1300
- References: <1992Nov7.165801.464@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 55
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- In article <1992Nov7.165801.464@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
- >
- >>>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!
- >
-
- An it wouldn't be consistant with the GUI either (if you want to be picky)
-
- e.g draw group of points aren't moved as "instant effect" are because they are
- more than one point. so more than on kind of filer object == done in a outline
- box; however when moving one point in a draw object the change shown
- incremently until you decide the final destination (or quit)
- (this is an example - there are many exceptions and I'm not suggesting the
- design of the desktop is modeled on !draw)
-
- Dragging individual files/applications would be nice (but that is a matter of
- taste)
-
- >>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)
- >
- Use an obey file named !run in the application-which-is-a-directory
- something like
- (call this obey file FRED)
-
- set alias$open_directory filer_opendir <Obey$Dir>
- open_directory
- (end FRED)
- Have all the sprites for applications-which-are-really-directories in the
- !Sprites file of your !System Directory (assuming !system is in the root
- directory ) then they are IconSprited when you open the window)
-
- When you click on the application-that-is-a-directory it opens the sub
-
- I have done this for a couple of years now.
- Also I changed the sprite of FRED by redefining the filetype of FRED to an
- unused type, and defined the runtype for it Obey %.
-
- If you design the icon so it is something meaningful (e.g a open directory
- icon -or in my case a smashed one-) and in a colour that blends with you
- directory icon they become almost invisible (not that they disappear you just
- don't notice them)
-
-