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- From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
- Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.120228.26592@aston.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Aston University
- References: <1992Nov12.112100.6909@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:02:28 GMT
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- ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
- : 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)
-
- yes, I know what you are saying but there ought to be some way of getting
- around this using filetypes, after all, what are filetypes for if not to
- do what 'filename extensions' do in DOS etc. And where's the point in having a
- special filename character/extension when the directory has (presumably) a
- unique filetype anyway. What is needed is a system whereby a sprite is only
- used for a directory if the name matches *AND* the file it's being used for
- is of type 'directory'.
-
- :
- : 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 ?
-
- I don't know what it's called but you are probably right about it not getting
- used much.
-
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