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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is everyone bitching about Workbench
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Date: 28 Oct 90 18:49:08 GMT
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In article <> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <29244@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>>	4.  No access to devices like prt: par: ser: pipe:, etc.
>>
>	It would be TRIVIAL to create an icon that would copy the
>file. Under 2.0 you can open a window or an icon which will
>recognize when an icon is dropped on it.

But the point is, it would have been even more trivial to include this into
the Workbench in the first place.  Out of all the OS's in existence now, the
Amiga OS is probably the easiest to install the "drag file to prt: icon" idea.
Mac users (I have heard) have hacks, because they want it.  Our company wanted
to put it into our (IBM) product, but couldn't manage it, etc. etc.

IF they had multi-threaded the COPY command in the first place, a copy to
device only requires a check for a DEVICE flag, and then a copy of the file
without it's icon.

IE.  I never said it was impossible, I said it should have been in there to
begin with.  I just get frustrated when functionality of this marvelous
machine is denied to folks who don't know enough about the CLI.  These are
usually the same folks who either haven't heard, or won't touch PD-type
stuff.

>take this as a challenge. Use AppIcon and do it!

As long as you'r doing that.  Might as well incorporate spooler functionality.
And you're quite correct in saying that the new WB is better looking, and has
some very interesting "hook" implementations.

Here's a challenge for you:  is there any way to install a picture as the
background window's Layer-refresh-hook instead of the pattern fills?  My
limited knowledge has AppIcon, AppWindow and AppMenu, but no AppRefresh ;)

>	-- Ethan

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me
								(and Calvin)