Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!ur-tut!dpvc
From: dpvc@ur-tut.UUCP (Davide P. Cervone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF archive proposal (really feeding icons to applications)
Message-ID: <896@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 22:30:29 GMT
References: <6173@j.cc.purdue.edu> <22697@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4419@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: dpvc@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Davide P. Cervone)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <4419@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>Right now it ought to be easily possible to determine which icons are
>selected by examining the gadget list of the Workbench backdrop window. This
>might require dragging icons onto the main WB window from inside their
>subdirectories though.

Nice idea, John, but unfortunately, WB does not use standard gadgets.  If you
look at the WB backdrop window's gadget list, you'll see it's NULL (use SB or
something).  I wanted to do that when I wrote wIconify (still not posted 
in comp.binaries.amiga, but I did get a confirmation letter), but WB must
be doing it's icon detection itself.  I assume this was because gadget's
with masks were not available under V1.0.

Davide P. Cervone
dpvc@tut.cc.rochester.edu

PS, my offer still stands to mail wIconify to interested people until it
comes out in comp.binaries.amiga