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- From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: dragASprite / Modified filer.
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 10:11:10 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <1992Nov9.113146.12042@waikato.ac.nz> shunger@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >In article <1992Nov8.153647.27295@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
-
- >don't have a sub directory in the sub directory of !directory
- >e.g that !run opens up <Device>.<path>.!directory
- >(filer_opendir "<Obey$Dir>")
- >
-
- I don't think you even need this. Now this I'm dragging up from the
- deapths of my memory (an odd thing at the best of times) and as I'm
- currently many miles away from my Arc I can't test it out, but :
-
- One when I was writting a test application (to test something :-) ) I
- forgot to create a !Run file in the application dir (easy to do). When
- I double clicked on the application dir, what I got (this is where my
- memory may have got it wrong) was the filer opening the application
- dir (This was RO3.00, if that makes a difference).
-
- So if this is the case, and appears in all versions of RO, then all
- you'd need would to have is a !Sprites file in all the directories and
- start each of the dirs with a !. Not much overhead at all really, of
- course you could place all the sprites in one file and read it at
- boot, and you wouln't even have much delay when it came to opening the
- directory that containsed the directory...
-
- Of course I may have gotten this all twisted, but it's worth a try.
-
- Ian
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