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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench
Message-ID: <5416@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 01:06:32 GMT
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Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <6458@netnews.upenn.edu> ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
>Thanks to everyone who told me how to get information about the
>Workbench screen.  Now that I have the screen, I want to talk
>to Workbench itself: is there a way to inform Workbench that
>I have created a new icon, and Please Display it Now?  Having
>the user close the window and re-open it is sleazy and not
>worthy of a real user-interface.
>
>(Commentary: I wish Workbench weren't so icky, because if it
>were better done, more people would support iconic interfaces 
>to their programs, and there are plenty of times that a visual
>interface is simply better and faster.  Not to say that the
>CLI doesn't have its place, but the Amiga has evolved to strongly
>favor the CLI over the Workbench for anyone beyond the utter
>novice, which is too bad.  This ties in with my previous article:
>there is absolutely no way to install arexx, arp, or even 
>the 1.3 command set using only the workbench.)
>
	Workbench is currently being given quite a facelift.  The things
you mentioned above will be possible under V1.4; unfortunately you'll
have to wait til then.  Sorry :^(

	David