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Article #391Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
From: Mik Davis
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:56
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:56
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ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
:
: Ooops.
: I think you have the wrong end of the stick. The character only exists
: in the sprite name not the directory name. So you would have a directory
: called 'Games' and sprites called '*games' and 's*games'. Just thought
: can't have 'sm*' for small sprite names since the sprite name can only
: be 12 characters long thus it would have to be 's*' since the max
: filename size is 10 characters.
:
So what you are saying is that directories keep their original names but
just have a set of sprites for the use of - yes, good idea. Maybe * still
isn't a good idea though. might clash with wildcard systems (I know paint
doesn't have any system which needs you to type in a possibly wildcarded
sprite name but this ought to be forward compatible :) )
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