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Article #12684Re: Weird stuff, or "Will this work under 1.4?"
From: Greg Marquez
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 00:40
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 00:40
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> Yes. And it works. Dragging this 'PROJECT' icon will copy the
>entire drawer (just as if it were a 'DRAWER' icon). Try it at home. Now
>for the good stuff!
>
>QUESTION 1: Has anyone else done this before?
From: thywiss@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (John A. Thywissen)
>I keep an application library (better than overlays), the prototype
>project .info file(s), and configuration data in this directory.
From: phi@goanna.oz (Philip Hingston)
>In answer to QUESTION 1. Yes, I have. In my case I wrote a tool for managing
>C programming projects. I put all the source in a directory and made my
>program the default tool for a project icon attached to the directory.
>I think this is a really neat way to package the files needed for a project.
It also seems Impulse's Turbo Silver uses this method to store its animations
(at least my old 2.0 and 3.0 do). Drag the icon to copy the anim directory,
double click it to run the animations. . .
Glad to see I'm not alone on this! 8-)
Greg Marquez
Richard G. Marquez / Echidna Software \|// Echidna - the best little
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bbn!usc!hacgate!gryphon!pnet02!gregmarq From: gregmarq@pnet02.cts.com (Greg Marquez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Weird stuff, or "Will this work under 1.4?" Message-ID: <15828@gryphon.COM> Date: 16 May 89 00:40:32 GMT Sender: news@gryphon.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 32