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From: twills@amiga.actrix.co.nz (Tony Wills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help me with icons?
Message-ID: <4394.tnews@amiga.actrix.co.nz>
Date: 3 Nov 90 05:05:54 GMT
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Quoted from - robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds):
> I'm probably gonna feel real stupid when I get the answer to this.
> I've never been able to find any documentation on how the 
> `Default tool' and `Tool types' icon fields (as shown with the WorkBench
> Info option) work.  I've figured out at least a little about the Default
> tool,

I trust someones helped you with that bit (if not let me know!)

> but I'm hoping there are things I don't know -- like how to make
> it use the search path to find the appropriate command.  So, would

That's the more interesting bit - as far as I know even the new WB2.0 doesn't
use search paths for looking for default tools, why not?  Ask C= !!
But there does exist at least two programs to address this sort of lack,
both of which work with WB1.3.  One is WBRes (to be found on Fish#277), which
gives you aliases, and resident tools in the WB environment.  The second
is a set of programs called wb-back, wb-alias, wb-path (wb-res is apparently
left as an excercise for the user :-()  Which give you aliases and a search
path for WB tools.  The latter set of programs is freely distributable, but
not as yet widely distribubted - I'll ask the author to submit copies to
comp.binaries.amiga if anyone expresses an interest in them.

> someone either tell me what this is all about or point me to the right
> manual?  Thanks!
> -- 
> Robert Reynolds                 inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu
> CS Dept, Clemson Univ.    	uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!robert
> phone: (803) 656-6783           
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