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- From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
- Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.112100.6909@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:21:00 GMT
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- davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
- > As this project would seem to involve altering the filer in a fairly major
- >way, how about allowing directories to have sprites anyway (rather that having
- >to use up one of your characters labelling it) I don't know whether this would
- >be anything like possible realy though.
- > If we must have a 'special character' to mark a directory which has an icon
- >then can we have somethin unobtrusive like '-' NOT '*' or '?' etc. "~' might
- >be quite usefull...
-
- Well I used to not have a label like you suggest. But the problem I had with
- this was that if another application went and did an IconSprite to include a
- sprite for it's windows and it so happened that I had a directory called that
- my sprite would get redefined. (Good example Arch World's Waiter program
- often had a sprite called Games)
-
- I now use a special character I never have used '*'. In my original letter I
- used * since the character I use does not exist in unix. I did in fact
- state this in the article. The character I use is the one that looks like:
-
-
- \.-./
- | |
- /`-'\
-
- Well nearly anyway :-) Nothing uses that at the moment and I have never seen
- a sprite in the icon sprite pool with that character in it. Anyone know what
- that character is called ?
-
- Andrew Hersee
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