Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.011304.3046@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, programm changes Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <96@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.145847.16816@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <111@ryptyde.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 01:13:04 GMT The Great, The Powerful, Daniel Tracy: "Excuse me? Are you flaming Apple for being able to do something Commodore couldn't? That is, cause applications to open documents by double-clicking on them even if the app is running, without apps having to be rewritten?" -- <111@ryptyde.UUCP> Huh? No, the Amiga has had that ability from day 1. It's called "multitasking". I remember a few releases ago Andy Ongun was talking about how this new capability was forcing him to change his program. It seems he was putting his own icons on the desktop while Finder was turned off. What the Workbench does is allow programs to register their windows with it so you can drag and drop icons onto them. Sort of virtual folders. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"