jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) (06/26/91)
> Is it possible to deselect applications, you see I've got hundreds
From your article it apears that you mean make RISC OS 'forget' that it has seen
an application directory so that it will boot any others it finds with the same
name...
There are 2 methods I can think of straight-off:
1) Re-name all your STracker applications!
2) The desktop only boots an application if an IconSprite of the same name
is NOT in the WIMP sprite pool. Thus, if you delete the appropriate
sprite from the sprite pool, the application (should) be re-booted if
seen again.
(You could write a little BASIC program to 'forget' a particular app.
name along the following lines...
SYS "Wimp_BaseOfSprites" TO romsprites%,ramsprites%
SYS "OS_SpriteOp",256+<delete>,ramsprites%,"!STracker"
-where <delete> is the OS_SpriteOp number for delete sprite (I can't recall it
off the top of my head...
-!Stracker is the name of the application you wish to 'forget'
Then you can throw copies on your discs and double-click it to 'forget' the
previous app. (Or if you know how, you could write a mtasking app. to
continuously ensure that the icon is deleted, or delete whenever it's iconbar
icon is clicked, or something...
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