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- From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: dragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.153647.27295@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 15:36:47 GMT
- Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
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- >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 %.
-
- Yes I do this for direcory 'links' unfortunately it does not work when
- you close the resulting window with adjust. It simply takes you to the
- directory where you have actually stored the propper directory. Is this
- getting confusing?
-
- I use Adjust Click to close my filer windows most of the time and thus I
- get annoyed if the window that appears is not the window that I orriginally
- clicked on to open the directory. This all works ok of you hack the filer
- but NOT if you start creating obey files or applications.
-
- Andrew Hersee
-