[comp.sys.amiga.misc] ICONX and ASK question

gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu (06/05/91)

I have a AmigaDOS script file that looks something like this:

ASK "Wanna do it?"
IF WARN
DoIt
DoItSomeMore
ENDIF
ASK "Did you like it?"
DoItAgain

If I run this from a shell, all is well. If, however, I use ICONX, when I
doubleclick on the script's icon that I created, ICONX opens a window, the
lines:

Wanna do it? Wanna do it?

appear in the window and then, regardless of what I do, the window closes
after a second or two.

This script worked fine from ICONX before I modified it by putting in the
ASKs. What don't I know that I need to know?

This is under WB 2.03 on an A3000-25/50. The script is loading a preset
screenmode and palette before launching A-Max.

Thanks.

--geoff

gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu

andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) (06/06/91)

In article <21126.284b80e7@oregon.uoregon.edu> gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>
>I have a AmigaDOS script file that looks something like this:
>
>ASK "Wanna do it?"
>IF WARN
>DoIt
>DoItSomeMore
>ENDIF
>ASK "Did you like it?"
>DoItAgain
>
>If I run this from a shell, all is well. If, however, I use ICONX, when I
>doubleclick on the script's icon that I created, ICONX opens a window, the
>lines:
>
>Wanna do it? Wanna do it?
>
>appear in the window and then, regardless of what I do, the window closes
>after a second or two.


It sounds like you are invoking the 1.3 IconX program, rather than the
2.0.  Use the version command on it to check this.

The 1.3 IconX command would only open input for the script if
it began with a . command, ie

.key place
.bra [
.ket ]
ASK "Wanna do it?"
IF WARN
DoIt
DoItSomeMore
ENDIF
ASK "Did you like it?"
DoItAgain


The 2.0 IconX always opens input.


		andy
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mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) (06/08/91)

In article <21126.284b80e7@oregon.uoregon.edu> gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>
>I have a AmigaDOS script file that looks something like this:
>

I have a question about using ICONX.

Is there any way you can get ICONX NOT to open a window when you execute a
a file from workbench that's tied into ICONX?

andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) (06/09/91)

In article <4076@ux.acs.umn.edu> mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) writes:
>In article <21126.284b80e7@oregon.uoregon.edu> gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>>
>>I have a AmigaDOS script file that looks something like this:
>>
>
>I have a question about using ICONX.
>
>Is there any way you can get ICONX NOT to open a window when you execute a
>a file from workbench that's tied into ICONX?


Put a tooltype:


WINDOW=NIL:


in your scripts project icon.


		andy
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Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

 "2.0 is not the answer.  2.0 is the question.  Yes is the answer."

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