Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: statement Message-ID: <1185@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 16:36:30 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1185 Posted: Sat Dec 27 16:36:30 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 21:38:11 EST References: <1107@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <1986Dec20.144752.5348@utcs.uucp> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 51 In article <1986Dec26.114028.13245@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes: > >>>>... I would like to have two icons that point to the same >>>>executable or tool, with perhaps different options set (i.e. they differ >>>>only in the parameters stored in the .info file). I don't think this is >>>>possible in the current scheme. Anyone know how to do this currently? >>> >>>This sounds like a great idea. Can the Mac do this? > >I don't know. I've never had a Mac. Anyone know the answer? > >> The Amiga does already. Take a look at the Amiga Basic demos. Each >>has it's own icon and yet they all point to the Amiga Basic tool. Seems to me >>that the wheel has already been invented. :-) > >Um....that's not what I said. Or, at least, that's not what I meant to say. >I guess I wasn't very clear. Let me try again. > Actually, Michael, why wouldn't a project icon do just what you want... it would allow you to start up a program under a variety of name, using different parameters. It really isn't necessary to expand on the definition of a tool.info file, when the project.info files will do what you want. In both cases, the actual program started is going to have to read the name it was invoked under, and whatever tooltypes parameters that it needs. So what's the difference if its a project.info file that you click on, rather than a tool.info file ? (There's an example of this, in the PCUtils on the V1.2 Extras disk. There's a Project Icon which just invokes the main tool for a different function.) >drawers, or perhaps in the default PATH (does the workbench implement >PATH-like concepts?). No PATH's per say...if you double-click on an icon, by definition, workbench knows where it is. If you're talking about in the default tool, an exact file location is expected there. > >Michael andy finkel -- andy finkel Commodore/Amiga {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy or pyramid!amiga!andy Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors. "Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful."