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From: perley@trub.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WorkBench Dreams
Keywords: I wish..
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Date: 12 Dec 88 13:29:02 GMT
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In article <5714@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>In article <835@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:

>>12.  Allow drag launching.  I.e., I should be able to drop a file icon
>>onto a program icon, and that would be the same as selecting the file
>>icon and shift-double-clicking on program icon.  Old idea.

>
>The Finder on the Macintosh has an even easier way to launch programs, just
>double-click on the file icon and the computer searches available devices
>for the appropriate program and then automatically runs the program and 
>loads the file.  It would be nice to have the built in flexibility of both
>options.


That is not what the first guy was asking for.

What is the appropriate program?  If the file is say, a C source file,
does the finder print, edit, or compile it depending on which 
"appropriate program" it finds first?


What you are suggesting is already standard, essentially.

If you already know what program is appropriate, you can store
that on the icon, and it gets run automatically when you double-click.


-don perley