robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds) (10/30/90)
I'm probably gonna feel real stupid when I get the answer to this. I've never been able to find any documentation on how the `Default tool' and `Tool types' icon fields (as shown with the WorkBench Info option) work. I've figured out at least a little about the Default tool, but I'm hoping there are things I don't know -- like how to make it use the search path to find the appropriate command. So, would someone either tell me what this is all about or point me to the right manual? Thanks! -- Robert Reynolds inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu CS Dept, Clemson Univ. uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!robert phone: (803) 656-6783
ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) (10/31/90)
In article <11251@hubcap.clemson.edu> robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds) writes: >I've never been able to find any documentation on how the >`Default tool' and `Tool types' icon fields (as shown with the WorkBench >Info option) work. I've figured out at least a little about the Default >tool, but I'm hoping there are things I don't know -- like how to make >it use the search path to find the appropriate command. Tool types are specific to the application. See application for more details. Default tool originally needed a full path. In 2.0 and above, the workbench uses the path that was set when loadwb was called. So if you place a command without a path in the default tool, workbench will search the path for the command. In 1.3 you need to see "The AmigaDOS Manual" (Bantam Books). 2.0 includes a manual called "Using the System Software". Currently this is only available with the A3000 (which, for now, is the only way to get 2.0.) >Robert Reynolds inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu -- -- Ken Farinsky - CATS - (215) 431-9421 - Commodore Business Machines uucp: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com or ...{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!ken bix: kfarinsky
twills@amiga.actrix.co.nz (Tony Wills) (11/03/90)
Quoted from - robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds): > I'm probably gonna feel real stupid when I get the answer to this. > I've never been able to find any documentation on how the > `Default tool' and `Tool types' icon fields (as shown with the WorkBench > Info option) work. I've figured out at least a little about the Default > tool, I trust someones helped you with that bit (if not let me know!) > but I'm hoping there are things I don't know -- like how to make > it use the search path to find the appropriate command. So, would That's the more interesting bit - as far as I know even the new WB2.0 doesn't use search paths for looking for default tools, why not? Ask C= !! But there does exist at least two programs to address this sort of lack, both of which work with WB1.3. One is WBRes (to be found on Fish#277), which gives you aliases, and resident tools in the WB environment. The second is a set of programs called wb-back, wb-alias, wb-path (wb-res is apparently left as an excercise for the user :-() Which give you aliases and a search path for WB tools. The latter set of programs is freely distributable, but not as yet widely distribubted - I'll ask the author to submit copies to comp.binaries.amiga if anyone expresses an interest in them. > someone either tell me what this is all about or point me to the right > manual? Thanks! > -- > Robert Reynolds inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu > CS Dept, Clemson Univ. uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!robert > phone: (803) 656-6783 -- _ o(_) Tony Wills | "I consider the mutilation of said bitmap / /\ twills@actrix.co.nz | data one of the most lunatic acts ever NZAmigaUG | carried out by an NZ computerist. :)" -JJB