Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!daveb 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 References: <3039@sugar.uu.net> <6457@netnews.upenn.edu> <6458@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 23 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