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From: ccplumb@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Suggested 1.3 features
Message-ID: <12935@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 01:29:29 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.12935
Posted: Wed Apr 22 01:29:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Apr-87 00:45:50 EST
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Reply-To: watmath!ccplumb (Colin Plumb)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) says (in <1496@cadovax.UUCP>):
>While we're on the subject of new feature suggestions:
>Is there any way to modify the system requester that says
>
>"Please insert volume xxxxx"
>
>To also let one know what file it is looking for?

Good suggestion, but I'd like to extend it:

There should be a way to completely modify all system requesters.

So, if the urge struck me, it could appear in reverse video, and
say `Stick in volume xxxxxx, ya geek!'.  Or I could change it to
french.  Or dutch.  Or add a picture of sticking a disk into a drive.
Or whatever.

Essentially, this allows the user to stick a bit of their programming
into the system, without replacing the module completely.
I wish I knew enough about Amiga internals to tell if this could
be extended to allow a window to pop up whenever a print request was
sent, so I could fiddle the aspect ratio and things.  Is there a nice
place to fit such a feature in?

(Of course, what we really need is the source, but I ahven't noticed
its availability.  Anybody want to disassemble 256K?)
--
	-Colin Plumb (watmath!ccplumb)

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