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- Ideas for default buttons:
-
- Only spend 10 minutes or so putting this together but here are some
- 'interesting' and/or 'useful' buttons from my setup which I think
- would work well as default examples. (Ahh, if only everyone had *my*
- setup then I could include all the horrible complex ones! hehe).
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- A button in a button-bank which pops up a text-button-bank for launching
- the standard prefs programs in sys:prefs/. I think a lot of people like
- these Win'95 Start Button emulators and don't actually realise they
- can do this kind of stuff already, and the prefs programs are about the
- only ones you can assume exist. (It's also quite a useful button to have!)
-
-
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- A "Multiview" button:
- Left: "Sys:Utilities/Multiview {f}" Do All Files
- Right: "Sys:Utilities/Multiview"
-
- As well as being useful, this demonstrates drag-n-drop to button banks
- and a method of getting around the fact that you can't just run multiview
- with no arguments by left-clicking with nothing selected. (Considering
- ToolManager didn't allow RMB functions it isn't that bad).
-
-
- A "NewShell" button in the button-bank.
- An "Exchange" button.
-
-
- Some example "new lister" buttons, maybe for "Sys:" and "Ram:", which
- can show people that the "ScanDir" command can be used for this. They
- can then adapt it to their own system. IMO this is quite important as
- a lot of people felt lost without path buttons.
- - Also, a "New lister" button which does "Devicelist new", a la LMB
- double click. (Some people might not be into the LMB-DClick idea
- at first).
-
-
- "Edit User-Startup" (& Startup-sequence) buttons. These are frequently
- used here and I wish I'd thought of it before (or someone had given it to
- me as a default button before <g>).
-
-
- Obviously, buttons for all the different functions of DOpusFuncs should
- be included ;-).
-
-
- Definately include a note somewhere about how to setup the directory
- filetype to do ScanDir on drag-n-drop (assuming this isn't made the
- default).
-
-
- One of my favourate buttons at the moment:
- LMB: Call's Edmunds ArrangeListers script.
- RMB: Iconifies all listers (via DOpusFuncs)
- MMB: Closes all listers (via DOpusFuncs)
- - I also have all of these in a my user menu "misc./listers"
-
-
-
- Maybe this is a little advanced for newbies and requires too much
- system-specific editing: (* = non-standard command :( ).
-
- My User1 (View, Doubleclick) function for XPKCompressed files:
-
- Function : AmigaDOS Copy {fu} Goodies:Spool/{ou}
- AmigaDOS Protect Goodies:Spool/{ou} +drew
- (*) AmigaDOS PackX File Goodies:Spool/{ou} PRI 3 GUI PUBSCR {Qs}
- AmigaDOS Sys:Utilities/MultiView Goodies:Spool/{ou} SCREEN
- AmigaDOS Delete Goodies:Spool/{o}
-
- Flags : Run asynchronously
- Do all files
-
-
- Also, please stress the use of the UserX commands. E.G. User2 for all
- filetypes a "decompress" action, then you can just have a button which
- decompresses all files of all types at once.
-
-
- LhA Add: (*NO* non-standard commands, just cunning stunts (i.e. klude))
- (Filerequester points to destination by default -- cannot be done
- internally).
- Function : AmigaDOS FailAt 21
- AmigaDOS System:C/RequestFile DRAWER="{d}" NOICONS PUBSCREEN={Qs} SAVEMODE >PIPE:{Qp}
- AmigaDOS IF WARN
- AmigaDOS TYPE PIPE:{Qp}
- AmigaDOS Skip NArcAddEnd
- AmigaDOS ENDIF
- AmigaDOS Set FileName `TYPE PIPE:{Qp}`
- AmigaDOS LhA -r -x -Qo u "`Get FileName`" {O}
- AmigaDOS Lab NArcAddEnd
-
- Flags : Output to window
- CD source
- Rescan dest
- Window close button
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-
-
- Uh, I haven't forgotten about the article... Just too much work and too
- much laziness (I did some more on it last week and plan to finish it
- very soon -- sorry).
-
- Lecture in 5 minutes, gotta dash!
-
- Leo
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-