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- IconToClip
- Version 1.0
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- MOTIVATION
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- I use the Shell a lot, but typing in filenames, especially full
- pathnames, does get tiresome. Often I can see the icon for the file on the
- Workbench screen, and I wish I could put the icon's name into the Shell
- with just a mouse click instead of having to type the name. The wish is
- now reality with IconToClip.
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- WHAT IT DOES
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- When you run IconToClip, it puts an item, labeled "IconToClip", in the
- Workbench Tools menu. To transfer an icon's name to the Shell, just
- 1) Click on the icon.
- 2) Select the IconToClip menu item. This puts the icon's name into
- the Clipboard.
- 3) Click on the Shell window and press RightAmiga-V. The icon's name
- is now pasted into the Shell.
- You can also paste the name into any other program that uses the Amiga
- Clipboard, such as most word processing programs. IconToClip works well with
- Uwe Roehm's NewEdit, which allows you to cut and paste between the Clipboard
- and Intuition string gadgets. It requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.
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- CONTROLS
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- If you select the IconToClip menu item when no icon is highlighted,
- the program will open its control window. This contains four gadgets:
- The top gadget allows you to choose what will be written to the
- Clipboard, either the icon's full pathname (for example
- "Workbench:System/DiskCopy") or only the icon's name (for example
- "DiskCopy").
- The second gadget controls what happens if you shift-click on several
- icons. In "Row" mode, the names will be written in a row, with a space
- between names, for example, "SetMap Format DiskCopy". In "Column" mode,
- the names will be written with a linefeed after each one, so they will look
- like this when pasted:
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- SetMap
- Format
- DiskCopy
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- Do NOT use "Column" mode if you are pasting into the Shell. The linefeed
- will cause the Shell to try to execute the preceding name. "Column" mode
- is for use with word processing programs.
- The "Hide" gadget causes the control window to close.
- The "Quit" gadget quits the program.
- The control window is an AppWindow. Dragging an icon into the window
- causes the icon's name to be written to the Clipboard. If you are processing
- many icons, this is worth doing, since it eliminates the need to select the
- menu item for each one.
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- USAGE
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- From the Shell, IconToClip has this usage:
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- Format: IconToClip [PATHNAME] [COLUMN] [WINDOW]
- Template: PATHNAME/S,COLUMN/S,WINDOW/S
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- [PATHNAME] causes the full pathname to be written; the default mode is
- to write only the icon's name.
- [COLUMN] sets to program to "Column" mode; the default is "Row" mode.
- [WINDOW] causes the program to open its control window as soon as it is
- run.
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- From the Workbench, IconToClip has three ToolTypes, PATHNAME, COLUMN,
- and WINDOW, which are identical to the command line switches. As always,
- if you put IconToClip in the WBStartup drawer, include the ToolType
- DONOTWAIT.
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- PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
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- Send your comments and complaints to
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- Douglas Nelson
- 2006 N. 49 Avenue
- Omaha NE 68104
- USA
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- IconToClip is freely distributable.
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