home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- @5{USING "ICON X"
- @6}by Slade / PTK
-
- @4
- The following text file was written by Slade - PTK for the wonderful disk
- magazine Beyond Sanit-E. It covers the use of IconX scripts and how to use
- them to start your programs from the Workbench.
-
- @2 -+-+-+-+-+-@3
-
- Background@1
- Isn't it annoying to have to search through all the directories on your hard
- drive just to load one little program?
- Is your user-startup just full to the brim with assigns that you only use now
- and again?
- If your answer is YES then you need this.
-
- Currently when I load my Workbench I have a number of programs that are run
- from the WBStartup drawer. These include:
- @5
- ReKeyIt - Give keyboard shortcuts to the menus.
- ToolsManager - Gives me a launchpad from which I can run programs.
- Also allows additions to the Tools menu.
- CycletoMenu - Changes cycle gadgets into menus.
- Arq - Improved requesters.
- ToolDeamon - Add extra menus to the Workbench ones.
- MultiCX3.0 - The best commodity on the Amiga! Stops drive
- click, screen blanker and much more.
- WBTitle - Changes the Tool Bar default name.
- @1
- As you can see my Workbench is very personalised. All this personalisation
- does eat up the 2Mb memory that I have though. So I reduce the number of
- assigns to a minimum. Using IconX you can make the essential assigns and run
- the program all from the double click of one icon. Good or what!!
-
- @2 -+-+-+-+-+-@1
-
- The following is an example that I use to launch my Assembler:
- @3
- ; BEGIN Assem
- ;
- Assign Sources: Work:programming/assemblers/source/
- Assign Bin: work:programming/assemblers/binary/
- Assign Font2: work:programming/assemblers/fonts2/
- Run Work:programming/assemblers/Asm_one/Asm_onev1.3
- ;
- ; END Assem
- @1
- The above makes three assigns and then runs the program.
-
- To create a IconX script all you need to do is create your script and save it
- in your s: directory. Then draw an icon using IconEdit. I personally just
- edit the shell icon as it is a lot easier.
- Make the icon a Project icon and save it as the same name as your script.
- Change the default tooltype of the icon to IconX then save it somewhere nice
- and easy to get to.
- I use the above process in conjuction with ToolsManager, and have all my
- scripts on a Toolsmanager dock from which they can be launched when needed.