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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <812@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 07:20:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <783@cbmger.UUCP> <7666@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <7666@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <783@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>> Don't understand that. You CAN invoke IconEdit from the WB. Do you
>> want it to become a menu item on the WB?
>
>No, what I (and I presume he) wants is the ability to set tool types and
>stuff on files that don't (initally) have an icon. When you do that it should
>create the .info file with all the default stuff (but maybe a slightly
>different icon) and put the tooltypes and other stuff into it.

Ah, so this could be done by attaching an extra menu item like
"Make permanent icon" to the "Icons" menu of the WB. You then would
have to first invoke WB with "Window / Show / All Files", then click
on the desired file (on its default icon), and call "Make permanent
icon" from the menu. This would create a real .info file, initially
looking like the default icon and carrying already the correct file
type. You then would have to manually invoke "Information" from the
menu to set the tool types (or calling this could be automatically
included in the previous menu call). As last action you would have
to invoke manually IconEdit to give the icon the shape you wish.

Shouldn't be any difficult. Let's put this as an "enhancement request"
into the West Chester database.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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