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Re: Message_Iconise

#264
From: TMOTA
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:30
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pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes:

>In article <1992Oct5.222352.10182@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:

>>As far as I can tell, the PRMs say the message numbers are 0x400c10
>>and 0x400c11 respectively. However, these numbers don't work.
>           ^^
> These two digits should be hex! ie 0x400CA and 400CB.

Yeah... I was suspicious of this...

>Note that if you only have the one iconized sprite you want to use,
>the easiest thing is to call it ic_<task name> and don't bother
>responding to any of the messages, eg ic_edit, ic_filer, ic_draw,
>ic_paint. For consistency, you should use ic_? from the Wimp's sprite
>pool and then usually put the small version of the filetype sprite in
>the middle of it.

I did... first of all, I had to use a hard space in "dsedit ii" to get it
all working, and now I get an icon with '' underneath it (no name at all),
so I really want to reply to messages to get things working properly...
Now that I have the correct info, I should have it running RSN... thanks.
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Subject: Re: Message_Iconise
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From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:30:43 GMT
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