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From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Standard File Requesters
Summary: It's called "PathMaster"
Message-ID: <941@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 21:50:59 GMT
References: <0914.AA0914@amigash>
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Organization: SAC-UNIX (Public Access), Sacramento, Ca.
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In article <0914.AA0914@amigash>, scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) writes:
> I have not seen the Introcad requesters but the best I have seen are in
> Deluxe Photo Lab.  Very easy to use and the response is very good.
>  
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>     ///  /_\         	Scot L. Harris    !hoptoad!peora!rtmvax!amigash!scot 
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> [At warp factor 9, all the stop lights look green to me!]


The file requester used in IntroCAD is called "PathMaster" and
is the creation of Mr. Justin V. McCormick, currently V.P. of
R&D, Progressive Peripherals & Software, Denver.  PathMaster is
also used in PP&S' PIXmate and FrameGrabber software, both of
which Justin also wrote. (Tim Mooney wrote IntroCAD). 

But it's not necessary to own any of these commercial titles
to see/play with PathMaster since Justin wrote and released to
the public domain a little ditty he called "FileInjector" 
which uses the PathMaster requester to search for filenames
and then some tricky mouse manipulation to "inject" the selected
filename into the a "lame" (or less capable) requester in some
other program you're running simultaneously.
 
FileInjector is at least a year old now - if interested, check
around, it should be available for downloading everywhere. 
 
PathMaster is my absolute favorite file requester. I could name
a dozen (or 5 dozen) programs I use frequently whose file 
requesters I'd like to rip out by their roots and replace with
PathMaster.... I found the requester in PhotoLab fairly 
awful.  


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