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From: eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 questions and comments
Message-ID: <13734@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 20:44:01 GMT
References: <03584.AA03584@sosaria.imp.com>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax (Eric Cotton)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <03584.AA03584@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
>6) In the manual on page 3-80 it says that you can set a new preference
>   (e.g. a new printer) by using the command 
>   Printer Laser ACTION USE
>   without opening the editor window. I tried it with to presets called
>   Font11 and Font8 (guess what they do :-) and the command
>   Font Font11 ACTION USE resp. Font Font11.pre ACTION USE
>   but the editor window pops up always. When I click at the Font11 icon,
>   it works.

The documentation was written concurrently with much of the 2.0 software.
Alas, there are occasional last minute changes to the software that don't
make it into the manuals...

Anyway, currently not all the editors support presets/arguments.  Those
that do no longer accept the ACTION keyword.  The example should be as
follows:

	Printer Laser USE

The template is:

	FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S

Where FROM specifies the preset and EDIT, USE, and SAVE are switches which
communicate the action to perform.

The Font editor is a bit different because it deals with three sets of
Preferences (workbench, screen, and system).  Consequently, it has three
additional switches.  The template is:

	FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,WORKBENCH/S,SCREEN/S,SYSTEM/S

Thus your example should be:

	Font Font11.pre USE WORKBENCH

to set the Workbench font (for instance).

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