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In article <rpm.5.000B49CD@sys.uea.ac.uk> rpm@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard May) writes:
>In article <2i4hue$rut@panix2.panix.com> wookie@panix.com (Steve Houle) writes:
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>>From: wookie@panix.com (Steve Houle)
>>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.beta,bit.listserv.os2-l
>>Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)
>>Date: 25 Jan 1994 20:44:46 -0500
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>>In article <1994Jan25.110111.27404@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
>>Alfred Hottarek <hottarek@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
>>>
>>>If you open the Settings-notebook of more than one object simutaneously (by
>>>marking them all and open with the context-menue), only one notebook window
>>>should open, with only those settings, that are equal to all the objects, not
>>>a dozen windows like it is now.
>
>>But that would be inconsistent.  When you select a bunch of programs and
>>open the program itself do you want only the function each program has
>>with all the others to work?  <grin>  It would be meaningless often too.
>>For example, do you get just the pages in common?  Or do you get only the
>>selected features?  How about DOS settings?  Some of them have to be set
>>in relation to others.  How do you know what is there now to set the ones
>>you want to change.
>
>>The only thing I can see this being usefull for is changing the icons, and
>>there are command line things on the net that work much better for that.
>
>>Wook
>>--
>>Steve Houle                               ...is:    wookie@panix.com
>
>There are times when this would be useful, for example I tend to copy a lot of
>things temporarily from CD to disk, then when I want to delete them, I have to
>manually remove the read only flag on each one, before I can dlete them.
>
>If you were to do this it would have to give a reduced notebook that only gave
>options that made sense to be changed globally.
>
>I saw a very nice util on the Archimedies that could be configured with a
>particular set of file attributes, and then any files who's icons were dragged
>onto it, would have their attributes set to those off the utils. config.. Ie,
>this could be used to clear the raed only flag of any file dropped on it. Is
>there a util for OS/2 to do this, any more to the point it would be nice if a
>future OS/2 included this.

I've had this sort of problem as well and feel that this sort of problem
would be easily solved if it was possible to have a program object
accept more than one icon similar to system objects such as the
shredder. Then you could simply do things like setting selected
atributes with a batch/rexx script.

Sure you can sort of do this at the moment but there is a definite
difference between executing a script with x parameters and executing a
script x number of times and if you want to include any sort of option
then it currently is just not worth even considering.

So please give us program objects which can take multiple objects.

Joe.