Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!sycom!vrtwo!matt From: matt@vrtwo.UUCP (Matt Buford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Dragging WB objects onto WB backdrop Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 07:58:23 GMT References: <1309@cbmger.UUCP><1991Jun7.203616.8321@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Virtual Reality II BBS - Kauai, Hawaii - 808-337-1560 Lines: 27 writes: >>>Is there a way to move WB objects onto the WB screen so that at boot >>>time my favorite tools are waiting for me? >>> >>>(BTW - I've got 1.3) >> >>In 2.0 this is a feature included. I don't know of any way to achieve >>this in 1.3. > > Well, this isn't an exact duplicate way of accomplishing this in 1.3 but, >there is a ShareWare program around called AmiDock which allows you to set up >a NeXT-like bar of icons anywhere on your WorkBench and call your favorite >programs with one click of the mouse button. It's a great program and I use >it extensively. I hardly even open any windows anymore, it's just one click >on the dock and off I go.. Great job by Gary Knight and friends.. Well, a sort of hack way of getting this done is by recording a macro with something like MACHIII then setting that macro to autoplay on startup... -- .____________________________________________________________________________. | | | | Please send all | Sysop of the Virtual Reality BBS | | complaints to | uunet.uu.net!umich!vela!sycom!vrtwo!matt | | | 808-337-1560 * 2400 baud * C-Net Amiga | | >NIL: | USR 14400 baud DS on order - 40 megs storage | |__________________________|_________________________________________________|