Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: graphic pipes (was: where to do line editing?) Message-ID: <12137@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 00:30:25 GMT References: <678@gtx.com> <593@blblbl.UUCP> <8263@brl-smoke.ARPA> <611@tub.UUCP> <6246@chinet.chi.il.us> <10498@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 26 As quoted from <10498@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> by cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs]): +--------------- | In article <6246@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.UUCP writes: | > Hmmm, could they really pick out, say 'tr', from 2 or 3 hundred similar | > tools faster than typing the name in? What about command line options? | > Most tools need more than a filename. If selecting the icon would then | > present a form of choices for arguments and do some error checking before | > going on to the next tool, there might be some advantage. | | For a good implimentation(sp?) of how to have command line options | and icons living together, check out the way it's done on the | (gak, gag, gawk, etc) Atari ST under the GEM desktop. +--------------- The MacOS already knows about multiple entry points in an application (read: program), so it shouldn't be too much trouble for a pipe-stringing mode (in System 8.0, which is supposed to have fully pre-emptive process scheduling instead of the MultiFinder hack) to open the application in "dialog" mode, where it can pop up a dialog box to get any necessary arguments via the usual menu/field/button/etc. interface. (Maybe some enterprising A/UX hacker -- if such exist yet -- could try implementing this?) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc