Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench and object-oriented programming (was Re: Iconification)
Message-ID: <1328@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 17:37:51 GMT
References: <1076@sugar.UUCP> <2826@cbmvax.UUCP> <1103@sugar.UUCP> <487@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> The problem with what you suggest is that different word
> processors have different file format conventions, mostly not pure
> ascii...
> What you really want it to do
> is to "send a print message" to the file.  This might mean firing up a
> printing program specific to that file that would do all the right
> things.

What you really want to do is write a tool called "print" that looks up
"PRINTER" in the ToolTypes array and fires off the named program when
you shift-double-click it. Then we want to beat C= into implementing the
drop-an-icon-onto-a-tool method of firing off programs.

THEN you want to get C= to allow you to snapshot icons onto the workbench, so
they're automatically there when you boot up. THEN get them to allow you to
drag windows off-screen so you can actually get to the workbench when you need
to.

> I hope these aren't stupid questions.  I haven't looked terribly
> closely at the workbench.

The workbench is about 25% of a great tool. The more people ask stupid questions
(not saying yours are, or that mine aren't) the more likely C= is to fix that
sucker up.
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