Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!baer
From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BADGE contest suggestions
Message-ID: <1424@percival.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:35:45 GMT
References: <5299@louie.udel.EDU> <8653@gryphon.COM> <13647@cisunx.UUCP> <258@antares.UUCP>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <258@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) writes:
>Speaking of BADGE Killer Demo Contest #0 winners, what is the proper way to
>abort ShowAnim when it is started from the Workbench via Xicon?  Whenever I
>start the anim from the CLI, it stops when Control-C is typed, just as
>advertized.  But when started from the icon on the Fred Fish disk, it does
>not respond to Control-C.  Left-Amiga-N and Left-Amiga-M will call up
>Workbench, but only for 1/30 second.  Then the anim forces its way back to
>the front, and I can't get out. 

This is a problem with ShowANIM, not Xicon.  Gary Bonham said that the icon
for ShowANIM was there to make it easier to copy the program, and it 
wouldn't run from workbench.  It must be intercepting the Ctrl-C from CLI,
so it wouldn't recognize it from Workbench.

Our public domain Display program will work from workbench.  You can click
on its icon and choose your animation via the file requester, or you can
make an icon for your animation and use Display as the Default Tool.  Display
is in the People Link library, and on many BBS's and usergroup libraries.
I haven't had time to upload it to Usenet, or send it to Fred Fish yet.
Anybody who has Hash Animation software will have Display.  Hope this helps.

BTW, you CAN bypass the file requester in Display by using it as a Default
Tool, or calling it from CLI with a filename (e.g. Display myanim.anim).

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