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- RR/WK Procedure Tricks.
- Issue #1
-
- Here are some tricks for the RR/WK procedure language.
-
-
- I have been asked questions on how I was able to get ICONs and
- PICTs to work as buttons in I Dream Of Downloading. Well it's
- quite simple. In ResEdit, place you PICTs or ICONs in the DITL
- resource. Make note of the Item Number of the PICT or ICON. Then
- define those Item Numbers as buttons in your SHELL script.
-
- Example: You have four ICONs in a DITL of ID 1000. Use the DATA
- statement for a button: DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 for each ICON. In all
- DITL's, if the first item is a button, it will become a default
- button, (activated when <CR> is tapped>.
-
- SHELLID 1000
- ITEMS 4
- DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 <-- This will be a highlighted default button
- DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0
- DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0
- DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0
-
- ENDSHELL
-
-
- __________________________________________________________________
-
- How to attach the date at the end of a file name that will be
- opened by the procedure:
-
- COPYINTO F$,Filename
- (The file that you want to attach a date onto.)
-
-
- TIMEDATE A$
- (A$ now might contain "08/08/89 23:44:09")
-
- LEFT$ B$,5,A$
- (B$ now contains "08/08")
-
- CONCAT F$,B$
- (Attach date to the filename.)
-
- RECA F$
- (Receive the file)
-
- <or>
-
- USEROPENO 1,F$
- (Open a file ready to be written to.)
-
- __________________________________________________________________
-
- Next time I'll talk about tricks in ResEdit!
-
- I have just recently become an assistant in the FreeSoft RT to
- support the procedure language for RR and WK. I'm am quite familiar
- with the language and have written a few RCMDs (RCMD allow you to
- write in Pascal or C or any language that makes Code Resources.) If
- you have any questions about procedures or RCMDs, I'll be glad to help
- but please post your message in the FreeSoft Bulletin Board. That way
- everyone can benefit from your question. My e-mail name is B.DANIEL.
- Please note that it does not have an S. If you send mail to B.DANIELS,
- I won't get it.. someone else has that name.
-
- I am a VAR for AT&T and have quite a bit of experience with UNIX and
- communications between UNIX and Mac. I'll be glad to help anyone with
- UNIX questions also.
-
-
- This is issue #1 of a series that I will be posting on ocassion. Please
- give me some ideas for future issues.
-
- Bob Daniel
- GEnie: B.DANIEL
- AT&T Mail: attmail!cikpc!bob