| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I picked up IconX from a free disk distributed with Amiga Format
magazine; it seemed just what I wanted. You give a CLI command file
an icon, set the tool to :IconX and when you double click the icon
the comand file runs.
But for some reason IconX asks me to insert the Workbench diskette
even if none of the commands need it. I only have one drive so I'm
used to swapping disks but I HATE doing it when theres no good reason.
Heres a 1 Line example, I want to display 3 IFF files using Vilbm.
The command file looks like this;
DF0:Vilbm IFFfile1 IFFfile2 IFFfile3
Now all 4 files are on the disk currently in the drive (but thats
not the disk I booted from).
When I double click the icon, IconX pops up its window and then asks for
the Workbench Disk.
It gronks on the Workbench disk for less than a second and
asks for the origional disk again. Whats it doing? Why would it
need the Workbench disk?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2760.1 | Looking for C:RUN | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Mon Jul 24 1989 18:03 | 16 |
Re: .0 > When I double click the icon, IconX pops up its window and then asks for > the Workbench Disk. > It gronks on the Workbench disk for less than a second and > asks for the origional disk again. Whats it doing? Why would it > need the Workbench disk? When a program, like IconX, creates a CLI task, it has to access the RUN command in C:. (The system call that creates a CLI task isn't very smart: it ignores the path when looking for RUN, and always references C:). One way around this problem is to assign C: to your ram disk, and copy RUN to it. You can then use the path command to specify that Workbench:C should be searched so that your normal CLIs can find all the commands you don't put in RAM: or make resident. | |||||
| 2760.2 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25 | Mon Jul 24 1989 18:11 | 2 | |
IconX is also part of the V1.3 Workbench and is documented in the
V1.3 User's Manual.
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| 2760.3 | Resident ? | AMIGA2::MCGHIE | Thank Heaven for small Murphys ! | Mon Jul 24 1989 22:15 | 3 |
I don't suppose making RUN a resident command would help would it ?
Mike
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| 2760.4 | I wish | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Mon Jul 24 1989 23:03 | 5 |
Re: .3 > I don't suppose making RUN a resident command would help would it ? Nope. | |||||