barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (02/22/91)
In 4 years of owning my Amiga, I have rarely used Workbench (I use
CLI/shell). Now, I am writing a program that must support Workbench, and I
have a question about icons and tooltypes.
Suppose I have an icon RAM:Paint.info that has as its application
DH0:Applications/Paint. There is ALSO an icon DH0:Applications/Paint.info.
Both icons have some ToolTypes set, but they are different ToolTypes.
My question is this:
When I double-click on RAM:Paint.info, what is this icon's
relationship to DH0:Applications/Paint.info, if any?
When I double-click on RAM:Paint.info, does my application see the
ToolTypes from it, or from DH0:Applications/Paint.info?? From my programming
experience last night, using the examples in the 1.3 RKM's, the answer is the
latter (DH0:Applications/Paint.info)! I think this is very counterintuitive.
In fact, if I remove the icon DH0:Applications/Paint.info, and
double-click on RAM:Paint.info, my application sees NO ToolTypes at all.
Yes, I was very careful to choose SAVE from within the Info window
each time. I even ran "type opt h" on the icons to see the ToolType strings
inside. In fact, I created 4 different icons in RAM:, each with different
names and different lists of ToolTypes, and they ALL used the ToolTypes of
DH0:Applications/Paint when they were double-clicked.
Not to rule this out: could this behavior be due to a bug in the
Manx 5.0d WB startup code?
Dan
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