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 In article <2977@cps3xx.UUCP> golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james) writes:
 >
 >That's exactly the point.  You shouldn't have to be a hacker to get a
 >filerequestor that works well for you.  I guess your saying that only
 >people with technical expertise deserve to have file requestors that
 >they like.
 >
 >Mike Golden 

OK, then - who's gonna be the first to write a file-requester in
structured, well-documented AREXX code?  Make it pleasant enough that
the average BASIC novice can understand it, and even a newcomer can
modify things like the size, position, color of the windows, whether
to ignore case in alphabetization, and such.  (Put all these in
variable assignments at the top of the file.)

This would make it embarassingly easy to add your favorite goodies.
Sort by file-extender?  Highlight .info files in blue?  Automatically
format any disks whose names start with 'v'?  No problem.  (Note that
this approach makes it easy for people to trade their favorite
file-requester code, and it also makes it relatively easy for novices
to detect nasties like the v-disk formatter.)

By the way, whaddya think about a REQ: device?  An OPEN call on REQ:foo:bar
brings up a requester with caption 'foo' in dir bar, and returns a lock on the 
file the user selects.  This would add requesters to even all-text
programs, and, in fact, could be used in scripts to add a bit of
friendliness to all-text programs.

script file fastfont:
	ff "req:Please choose a font to become the system font:fonts:"

AnyProject.info:
	default tool = req:Pick your favorite application.

script file easyzoo:
	zoo e// "req:Which file do you want to unzoo?:*.zoo"

	(note the new feature I just thought of.)



	-ranjit	(well, SOMEBODY has to have the wild ideas)


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