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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos w/o Directory in AmigaDos
Message-ID: <274@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 12:29:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 12:29:18 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 24-May-86 01:21:13 EDT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <653@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Actually neither OPEN nor OPEN AS are appropriate for a window-oriented
>user interface. What you need to be able to do is grab a file from the
>workbench and drop it into the program window. You should also be able to
>pick up a file and drop it into a program icon to start the program with
>that icon as "input".

That's already available on the Amiga, its just that lots of programmers 
aren't using it.  What you described is called extended icon select, or
something like that.  What you do is select a series of icons while holding
down the shift key.  Intuition doesn't automatically unselect an icon when
the next one's selected when the shift key is held down.  Anyway, the last
thing you do is double-click on the program icon.  Intuition passes a 
reference structure that contains a list of file handles to each of the 
selected icons; this is essentially the window based analog to passing
on the command line.









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Dave Haynie    {caip,inhp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
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