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- From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
- Subject: Re: Opening WB Windows with directory icons?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.121759.26252@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Summary: Not possible yet (awaiting ARexx port for WB)
- Keywords: WB, opening drawers, ARexx
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- Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
- References: <BxCqH9.3E7@kingston.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:17:59 GMT
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- In article <BxCqH9.3E7@kingston.ac.uk> cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun) writes:
- >Hi all,
- >Does anybody know if its possible to open WB direcory windows??
-
- NO!
-
- This problem has been discussed some time ago, and it pops
- here and then. The only legal way it could be done is
- by a specific function call in a library or the needed
- ARexx port for Workbench.
-
- I prefer the idea of an ARexx portfor WB, allowing much more than
- the simple opening of a given drawer.
-
- >I've looked at the RKM v2.04 without much help.
-
- You wont find it there.
-
- >Typical scenerio:
- > You have some sort of editor which has about 15 programs
- > loaded.
- > You've set it up so you can drag icons into it which get loaded,
- > (I think its called AppWin?) but you noticed that the screen
- > looks messy with all this windows open.
- >
- >Now is it possible to open a directory window, eg dh0:program/
- >(without having the window already open) and have all the icons displayed
- >on screen, so they are available to be dragged into the AppWin.
-
- Starting with 2.1 the asl file requester allows you to drag the icon
- on the file requester itself. This allows any application using the
- asl for a simulated drag and drop.
-
- >Another example is:
- > You drag icons into a AppIcon, they get processed, the directory
- > that they are saved to, is opened by the application, and then that
- > icon is available to do something else.
-
- >This seems to be a major hole in the opsys.
-
- No, is just some upgrades behind:-)
- People at Commodore are working hard, and I am sure it will
- be integrated in the system as soon as possible.
-
- >Will I have to do all this manually.
- >etc. create a window, read the directory .info files etc.. process the images
- >into my own window etc..
-
- This is potentially hazardous. If you simulate the Workbench drawer
- window, the user expects it to behave as a real drawer. Since you cant
- legally do all what WB does, I suggest you to make it clearly diffenent
- from the original WB drawer.
-
- >How does Workbench do all that?
-
- Its a well keeped secret.....:-)
-
- >Baffled
-
- Hope this helps
- Matija
- >Vlod
- --
- Best regards from Matija Milostinik : matija@avalon.ifi.unizh.ch
- : matija@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- Therefore, use local labels in the procedures as often as possible.
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