dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu (04/24/89)
perhaps the window location and size could be saved as a parameter in the applications icon as a tooltype. This would be usefull if you like to run more than one application at a time, you wouldn't have to rearrange the windows every time the computer was rebooted. douglas peale
nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) (04/26/89)
If this can already be done, will someone let me know how... This would be somewhat useful for those of us with no hard drive, (yup I'm an early 1000 owner!), and only two floppies. Can drawers on a disk, for example workbench which is in df0: be linked to drawers on other volumes or even simply df1: With this, you would simply call open the workbench disk window and the array of drawers on that disk would lead you to the proper second disk. I think this would assist in floppy operation substantially. If this is not possible for technical reasons. Would someone mind explaining briefly why it isn't. Cheers! neil
thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) (04/26/89)
In article <1168@apss.apss.ab.ca> nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) writes: > > Can drawers on a disk, for example workbench which is in df0: be > linked to drawers on other volumes or even simply df1: It sounds like you want a PD (or maybe shareware) program called PathAss. Basically, it combines the Path and Assign commands so that you can say things like: PathAss LinkedDrawer: df0:drawer1,df1:drawer2 Then, when you do "dir LinkedDrawer:", you get the union of the two drawers. For floppy users it is probably most useful for splitting fonts: accross multiple disks. It was posted to comp.binaries.amiga a few months ago... Hope this helps. -Dave -- Dave Thomas, Commodore Amiga Test Engineering UUCP ...{allegra,rutgers}!cbmvax!thomas
dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu (04/27/89)
In article <1510@hub.ucsb.edu>, dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes... >perhaps the window location and size could be saved as a parameter >in the applications icon as a tooltype. This would be usefull if >you like to run more than one application at a time, you wouldn't >have to rearrange the windows every time the computer was rebooted. Oops there must be a line eater in my brain, I ment this to be about application windows, this feature is already available to workbench owned windows. Douglas Peale
mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (04/27/89)
nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) writes: > Can drawers on a disk, for example workbench which is in df0: be > linked to drawers on other volumes or even simply df1: > > If this is not possible for technical reasons. Would someone mind > explaining briefly why it isn't. > It is not possible, since neither Workbench nor the filing system were built to support it. -- Michael Portuesi * Information Technology Center * Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 "Did you make mankind after we made you?" -- XTC, "Dear God"
new@udel.EDU (Darren New) (04/27/89)
In article <1528@hub.ucsb.edu> dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes: >In article <1510@hub.ucsb.edu>, dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes... > >>perhaps the window location and size could be saved as a parameter >>in the applications icon as a tooltype. I ment this to be about application windows, >Douglas Peale There is already a way to do this. It's called something like "ToolWindow" in the icon file. I don't think you could set it from the GetInfo menu. NopePad (<- originally a typo, but I like it) saves this in the tooltypes array. So there is already a standard and a non-standard way of doing this, and as far as I know there has always been this method. Except that the original startup code for some compiler(s) would not take advantage of it, so nobody seems to use it. Oh well.