Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!wam.umd.edu!charlie From: charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Tool Inspector Buttons(and Icons) Summary: Don't double click-drag it! Keywords: Icons, using applications Message-ID: <1991Apr18.122851.12900@wam.umd.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 12:28:51 GMT References: <1991Apr16.200030.12432@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: cville In article youki@newmars.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) writes: > >>>>>> On 16 Apr 91 20:00:30 GMT, charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) said: >> The application that is activated when you "double-click" >> on an icon may be set with the buttons in the Tool Inspector. >> (For example, a .ps file may be set to go the Previewer or to Edit.) > >I think the "double-click approach" is not suitable for UNIX. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YES! I fully agree. There are times when the "d-c" approach is right, like starting up an application. But for the general use of UNIX it isn't. Consider 'make'-you should just be able to drag your program icon onto the make icon and the file is 'make'd'(?)-someone want to give me the proper verb here--BTW, this is the way an Iris (SGI) OS works. Anyway, I thought about this in the early NeXT days-after all the Black Hole (re: Recycler) works this way, but it was my understanding that it was difficult if not impossible (?) due the the priority levels of the icons and window. I will be very interested in seeing your code. 2.0 (re:2.1) is GREAT- but it still lacks this feature. -charlie > I've >written an application which is based on "drag-and-drop" approach; it >enables you to process one file with various tools. For example, you >can compress a .ps file, Yap it, Preview it, or Edit it, just by >dragging an icon from the Workspace to the window representing the >application. > >I think this software is useful in 1.0, but I'm not sure if it's also >useful in 2.0, since I don't know what is improved in 2.0, and what >facilities Workspace Manager2.0 provide. > >I think I can help you if Canon begins shipping 2.0 in Japan. I've >never heard of such a good news. I'm eagerly awaiting for 2.0. > >Possible alternative is that some kind soul makes adaptation to >NextStep 2.0. You can obtain the source code and documentation from >cs.orst.edu, in directory ~ftp/pub/next/sources/SystemWorks.tar.Z. >-- >Youki Kadobayashi >Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci, Osaka University, Japan