Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites

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3 total messages Started by Andrew Hersee Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:44

#389

Author: Andrew Hersee
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:44

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ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:

>If you have to have a special character, there's nothing to say that
>the filer *has* to display it. The only problem with *not* displaying
>it would be that people might not realise it's there, and forget it
>when using the command line, etc. but in that case you could have an
>option to not display the character (for those who are linkely to
>remember), and what's more you could even extent that to including not
>displaying the '!' for application dirs as well.
>
>Failing that, for extra confusion, you could make the special
>character a hard space - err... perhapse not! :-)

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.

Andrew 

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Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites

#391

Author: Mik Davis
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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Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites

#405

Author: C.D.Latham
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:48

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Discussion about choice of special character for directory spritenames
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Any reason why we shouldn't simply use `/' or even `.'?  They would at
least indicate that the sprite has something to do with a directory.
One could use .dirsprite or /dirsprite for the big icon and use
..dirsprite or //dirsprite for the small icon.  That would solve the
12 character limit on small directory sprite names.

`.' is probably best as it can *never* appear in any RISC OS filename.
Non-nfs users need to bear in mind that `.' and `/' are transposed by
the nfs filer.
--
Christopher.

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