| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 18 Mar 2001 at 10:15:27 |
| Subject: | Re: <FRAMESET>s again |
On 17-Mar-01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I'm not up on Intuition programming, but I believe it should be
> possible to open a window with no Intuition gadgets.
Definitely. Many traditional Amiga programs, such as DPaint, Scala,
ProPage, etc do this. It is only relatively recently that Amiga
programmers started imitating Windows programmers and putting everything
in windows with borders and gadgets, without considering whether this
would give a clean tidy display.
Of course, other programs such as Sculpt 3D used windows with gadgets
from the start, in this case very effectively.
>> AACD works quite well but there are some glitches on my usual setup,
>> which has the CD on a second Amiga accessed via Envoy.
>
> I've used them on NFS mounted drives, but haven't tried with Envoy.
>
>> I still get the old error message "wrong number of arguments" when
>> the "Welcome" starts up,
>
> Old message? No one's told me about it :(
I'm sure I mentioned it ages ago. IIRC it happened on the CU disks too.
>> then an error message from AWeb "cannot open file
>> ++>"
>
> That looks like it may be Envoy induced.
Or AWeb hasn't been tested with Envoy.
> Two executables, three ARexx scripts a prefs file and some MUI bits,
> the first time you run the CD. It's not absolutely necessary to copy
> them, but not doing so would mean putting a bunch of assigns in
> Welcome and requiring you to run it each time. The files are only
> copied if not already present, you probably already have most of them.
>
> There is a link in the CD's documentation detailing the changes made,
> there's even a commented copy of Welcome for the terminally paranoid.
> It's only a DOS script, not an executable, so you can see for yourself
> what it does.
Well, I did check the main script - an impressive bit of AmigaDOS
scripting - before doing this test. I think it is right to be extremely
careful where your main working computer is concerned.
_You_ know you're doing nothing dangerous, but I don't. In this case,
knowing the person involved, it is a good assumption that care has been
taken. But your setup hasn't been tested with Envoy, for instance.
Regards
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