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From: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench
Message-ID: <380@laic.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 04:17:29 GMT
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Reply-To: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Organization: Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park
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In article <13239@pollux.UUCP> bjc@pollux.UUCP () writes:
>There was a program on a Fish disk about two releases ago - probably in the
>130s - called HandyIcons.  It provides for the addition of an extra menu
>on the workbench for tools.....
>It will not
>work with both 1.3 KS and 1.3WB installed.  Requires 1.2.  Too bad.

Well, I can't get it out before Christmas...  But I was working on a 
program just like this, with a few extras (most importantly, source).
My idea is to have user definable menus be definable in a text file,
support WorkBench (Workbench, workBench?) and CLI programs, both
with arguments, and some built-in commands (mainly so I don't have
to run gobs of utilities) such as window iconify, diskchange, etc.

Of course, since I program for fun, it takes awhile to finish anything.
Of course, Workbench 1.4 will have this (just a rumor :-).

-- 
Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	"It's true, the world's not perfect...  But we've submitted an SPR"