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- From: Roger_Martensson@p3.nola.bbs.bad.se (Roger Martensson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icons for assigns?
- Message-ID: <OA92-901-607p3_15bacc26@piraya.bad.se>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:54:40 +0000
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- Let me quote something Ross Smith said on 16-Nov-92:
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- RS> E.g.
- RS> makedir work:docs
- RS> copy work:disk.info work:docs/disk.info
- RS> assign docs: work:docs
- RS> ... and viola :-) a new disk icon appears on my WB, which I can open
- RS> and find the docs: directory (I don't mind if I have to do a reset
- RS> before the new icon appears). The idea is that an assign should look
- RS> just like a real drive to the GUI, which it already does to the CLI. I
- RS> tend to have a lot of nested directories, and I'd like to be able to
- RS> reach some of the more remote ones without going on a hunting &
- RS> fishing expedition down through my Work: partition...
- RS> Any thoughts? ("So don't nest your directories so much" doesn't count
- RS> :-)
- RS> (My Amiga is a 2000 with 2.05)
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- Why not:
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- makedir work:docs
- Create an Icon. Use DirWork/DirOpus or copy an icon from an another drawer. go
- to WB and find that icon. Highlight it and leave it out. (Under the icon menu)
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- Viola, you have the drawer icon on the workbench.
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- /Rm - InterNet: Roger_Martensson@p3.nola.bbs.bad.se
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