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From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
Summary: More 1.4 hoop-a-la.
Keywords: workbench 1.4 tool
Message-ID: <16131@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 89 13:21:12 GMT
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In article <688@berlioz.nsc.com> waggoner@berlioz (Mark Waggoner) writes:
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>Number 579 in the 1.4 wish series.
>
>I really want a 'toolpath' for workbench.  I really hate it when
>workbench can't find a project's tool just because the tool either
>isn't installed in some specially named place or it is in a different
>place on machine A than it is on machine B.  One of the nice things
>about the Mac is that it will find a tool for you if it is available
>anywhere.
>
>What I propose:
> 1. Workbench would first look for the tool using the name in the
>    default tool field of the project WITH DISK REQUESTERS TURNED OFF.
> 2. If not found, Workbench searches for the tool in the 'toolpath' 
>	(perhaps an environment variable? )
> 3. If still not found - and the default tool specifies an absolute
>    path, turn on the disk requesters and look for it again.
> 4. If STILL not found - put up a REQUESTER to the effect: 
>	'Could not find the tool XXXX for project XXXX'
>	NOT a silly error message in the title bar.  Maybe even 
>	CENTER IT ON THE SCREEN!
>

Number 2017 of the 1.4 wish series (remember email):

Neat idea.  It would be great if we could have icons in directories, and
have the program exist in some other directory.  Then we could have the
convenience of having a preferences icon in several drawers on a hard drive,
but have only one preferences program on disk.  Have it so you can also
specify other volumes or devices where the program can exist.  Then we
could really run programs over a network or something.
 
Something else that would be pretty gosh darn teriffic (and I'm not asking
for much here guys) is to have directories with multiple enterances.  I mean,
you have 2 icons named utilities, in 2 diferent directories, that both take
you into the same directory.  It saves hunting through 3 or 4 windows all
cluttered with icons just to find the path.  It could also make for nice
and short path names if you plan it right.
 
A less than ideal but nearly there soluiton could be something like an assign.
You assign utilities: to be sys:utilities, and then you can create an icon to
open utilities: and it will look where it is.
 
Now, that doesn't seem like much to ask for.  And it is neat, eh Mr. Commodore
developers?