Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!ranjit From: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Talking to Workbench Message-ID: <6458@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 1 Dec 88 20:14:27 GMT References: <3039@sugar.uu.net> <6457@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 23 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.) - ranjit "Trespassers w" ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu mailrus!eecae!netnews!eniac!... -- I'm not a drug enforcement agent, but I play one for TV --