Talking to Workbench

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From: Ranjit Bhatnagar
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 20:14

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Thanks to everyone who told me how to get information about the
Workbench screen.  Now that I have the screen, I want to talk
to Workbench itself: is there a way to inform Workbench that
I have created a new icon, and Please Display it Now?  Having
the user close the window and re-open it is sleazy and not
worthy of a real user-interface.

(Commentary: I wish Workbench weren't so icky, because if it
were better done, more people would support iconic interfaces 
to their programs, and there are plenty of times that a visual
interface is simply better and faster.  Not to say that the
CLI doesn't have its place, but the Amiga has evolved to strongly
favor the CLI over the Workbench for anyone beyond the utter
novice, which is too bad.  This ties in with my previous article:
there is absolutely no way to install arexx, arp, or even 
the 1.3 command set using only the workbench.)

	- ranjit


   
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