Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!carolyn
From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench vs Workbench project icons, bugs?
Message-ID: <3011@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 20:53:04 GMT
References: <1093@raybed2.UUCP>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 36
Keywords: Workbench Project icon WBarg

In article <1093@raybed2.UUCP> lah@raybed2.UUCP (LANCE HOLMES) writes:
>
>I have been trying to fix a problem and I'm not sure if it can be.
>
>The program I'm working on uses a Project icon on a file which when double
>clicked the filename in WBarg is passed to the program from workbench.  
>I then try to get the parentdir lock from the files lock
>and examine the parentdir's lock to get the parentdir's name.
>
>    When the program is installed on the workbench and the workbench disk is 
>in DF0: the program works fine. But when the program is installed with its
>Project on the workbench and the disk is not in drive DF0: but in DF1:
>the program tries to locate the lock on drive DF0: and when the requester
>that comes up saying no disk in drive df0: is cancelled I get a Null string
>for the Parentdir's name.  I have checked the WBarg filename and the string
>is the name of the file that I have clicked on.  But the Amigados  
>seems to think that the file should be on drive DF0: not DF1:.  

   This seems related to a bug I found recently (at least I consider it
a bug).  

   If you put a full device and file path for Default Tool in a Project
Icon, the tool comes up CD'd to df0: (root) with current directory
lock == 0.  Normally, with any other type of path (:tool, :dir/tool, tool, etc)
you come up cd'd to where the project icon resides.  I discovered this
when I tried to change some AmigaBasic icons to ask for Extras:AmigaBasic
instead of :AmigaBasic.

   Your problem seems to be another version of the same thing.

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