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- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icons for assigns?
- Message-ID: <alien.0185@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:31:48 GMT+12
- References: <alien.013w@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> <fgd3.02vh@nifty.UUCP>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ
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- In article <fgd3.02vh@nifty.UUCP> fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
- >In article <alien.013w@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >>I'd like to be able to put a "disk.info" icon into a directory, set up an
- >>assign to that directory, and have the pseudo-disk icon appear with the
- >>real disk icons on my Workbench.
- >
- > That's a neat idea. You might want a special icon, though, so you would
- >know it was a logical device. And if all the logical devices had icons
- >you'd have one for PAR:, one for SER:, and one for PRT:. You wouldn't neet
- >the PrintFiles program from the Sys:Utilities drawer. You could just "copy"
- >a file to the "PRT:" device.
-
- Yeah, that occurred to me too. The ability to print a file by just mousing it
- over to the PRT: icon would be incredibly useful ... so much so that I'm
- starting to think seriously about writing a program (commodity?) to handle
- just this sort of thing.
-
- Thanks to everyone who's replied to my post :-)
-
- Most of them suggested using "Leave Out" to put the directory icons on my
- Workbench. I already do this, but I'm sure there must be a more elegant way
- to handle it. I suppose it's an aesthetic matter rather than a practical
- problem, but "Leave Out" just seems like an ugly kludge to me ... disks,
- devices, and assigns all look & act pretty much the same under the Shell;
- why can't they under Intuition too?
-
- Oh, well ... a minor blemish on a great machine :-)
-
-
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- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- Mine is the ship bound for Alpha Centauri
- We must be out of our minds
- For though we are shipmates bound for tomorrow
- Everyone here's flying blind (Crystal Gayle)
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