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- From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
- Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.115608.24398@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:56:08 GMT
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- ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
- : ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- :
- : Ooops.
- : I think you have the wrong end of the stick. The character only exists
- : in the sprite name not the directory name. So you would have a directory
- : called 'Games' and sprites called '*games' and 's*games'. Just thought
- : can't have 'sm*' for small sprite names since the sprite name can only
- : be 12 characters long thus it would have to be 's*' since the max
- : filename size is 10 characters.
- :
-
- So what you are saying is that directories keep their original names but
- just have a set of sprites for the use of - yes, good idea. Maybe * still
- isn't a good idea though. might clash with wildcard systems (I know paint
- doesn't have any system which needs you to type in a possibly wildcarded
- sprite name but this ought to be forward compatible :) )
-
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