Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!tgould!dbh From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Comments on !PlaceIt Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 15:16:27 GMT References: <1991Feb1.195946.9947@odin.diku.dk> <1991Feb4.110525.12606@warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK Lines: 25 In-reply-to: maumg@warwick.ac.uk's message of 4 Feb 91 11:05:25 GMT First, thanks for a really useful application. I use it all the time now. In article <1991Feb4.110525.12606@warwick.ac.uk> maumg@warwick.ac.uk (Pop Mobility Freak) writes: >4. SetDir function. The possibility of changing the current directory, > by dragging a directory to an icon. Make this a menu option, and just > like clock, make it into "yet another filer icon". Do other people think this is a good idea? If so I *may* code it depending upon how much time I have available. This would be pretty handy. I use !CSD from Risc User quite often and although this is really pretty convenient now it's stuck to the background, it would surely not be too difficult to "nerg" (?) something similar into !PlaceIt. If you do, you might consider allowing the icon to be dragged onto the directory (viewer or icon) as well as vice versa. I would also like a pretty background but would probably only use it if you could invent a new algorithm to compress a mode 15 full-screen sprite into less than 1k of RAM. I'm sure you could fit it in between lectures? ;-) -- Denis Howe +44 (71) 589 5111 x5064 What is DiazaBicycloHexene ?