chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (01/17/91)
Catcher is a tool that allows you to build windowed tools that can catch drag and drop files dragged from other windowed tools. Catcher runs under either X11r4 or Sun's OpenWindows 2.0. In either case, you'll need at least one tool which allows dragging (like Sun's mailtool or filemgr) from which to drag files. You use a little scripting language to specify the windowed interface to an existing command. For example, you can build a drag and drop interface to cc. Gadgets in the window let you set optimization levels and link libraries. When you drop a file on the tool, cc is run with your options, and the file is compiled. This general mechanism opens up a world of new commands for those not familiar for Unix. Sample tools included with catcher include drag and drop interfaces to sort, cc, and enscript. Catcher comes complete with a 24 page User Guide, which you can print on a PostScript printer. If you cannot print the manual, let me know and I'll see about having some copies made for distribution. Chuck Musciano ARPA : chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation Usenet: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!chuck PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 AT&T : (407) 727-6131 Melbourne, FL 32902 FAX : (407) 729-2537 [[Ed's Note: Placed in archives in five files. -bdg]] FTP: Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) Directory: sun-source Filename : catcher.shar.{1-5} Filesize : 186445 in 5 files Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source catcher.shar.{1-5}