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In article <1992Nov12.120228.26592@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
>ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
>: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
>: >  As this project would seem to involve altering the filer in a fairly major
>: >way, how about allowing directories to have sprites anyway (rather that having

My first comment on seeing today's posts to c.s.a.t was WOAH! While, yes,
a lot of suggestions may be useful to Acorn for future official versions of
the filer, we are doing a patch hack without the benefit of 'real' source
code. I for one want to do the minimum possible to the filer to get the
results we are looking for.

As far as the development of the project goes - I volunteer to write all the
filer patch/hack code. Since Andrew mentioned apps, I nominate him to write
some nice apps ;-) Seriously, if you send me your modified filer Andrew, I 
could start work on integrating/expanding/etc - what do you think ? I don't 
think it is possible for 2 people to work on the same small piece of code - 
not in assembler anyway!

The way I am proposing to do this is to make the minimum possible patches
to the filer - which then communicate with another module which contains the
bulk of the code, provided SWI's, *commands, etc.

Re: all the toolsprites/etc. would anyone who does these like to email me
with them ? I will collect them, and then post them all in one archive to
Newcastle/etc when we have a reasonable collection.

New idea: Paul Fidler <praf1@uk.ac.cam.phx> suggested ages ago that we should
write a hack which maintains 2 or 3 sprite pools which are used as the
Wimp sprite pool depending on whether you are in low, high, or high mono
modes. When you change mode, you get the correct sprites. I think I will
put this is the main hack, since it is such an excellent idea! Just the sort
of thing Acorn might have/should have done ... Of course they probably
argue that most of their 'educational market' only ever use 1 screen mode,
and they are probably correct ...
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