| 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 finally got ToolManager v1.5 working last night. I now have hotkeys
and/or a tools menu item for my frequently used applications and a
couple of application icons on the workbench. Has anyone found a way
for ToolManager to inherit the workbench path upon startup?
BTW, there is another utility called Addtools, by SteveX (steve
tibbits), that will allow you to place items on the tools menu. It
doesn't give you the multitude of ways to start applications like
ToolManager but a shell started from the tools menu DOES inherit the
workbench path. Now to figure out how to use public screens to my
advantage...
mark
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| 5183.1 | WHAMMY::spodaryk | For three strange days... | Fri Nov 08 1991 19:21 | 9 | |
ToolManager is really neat. That combined with the built-in V2.0 features, and you have a REALLY usable Workbench. I find that I'm spending less and less time at the CLI, and more time using the various "show all" and "view by icon/name" to perform operations. It's real nice to just grab and drop those icons to view text, pictures, delete files, print files, etc, etc. Steve (the ToolManager code isn't real pretty to look at, though...) | |||||
| 5183.2 | ? | POTS::VISSER | Mon Nov 11 1991 08:54 | 8 | |
not sure this is related, but...
is there a way of changing a file's icon type from the WB? I have many
text files come up as TOOLs, and would like to change them such that
the default tool is MuchMore. But when I select "Info", I find I can't
alter them.
John
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| 5183.3 | re: -.1 Don't think so | DECWET::DAVIS | Mark W. Davis 206.865.8749 | Mon Nov 11 1991 12:12 | 7 |
From what I understand, you must do everything from toolmanager.config.
Once the icons are plastered onto the workbench you cannot get info,
nor snapshot them. I just set up a text reader application icon on the
workbench and drop a text file into it when I want to read. Mostly
I use toolmanager for hotkeys. It is a great application.
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| 5183.4 | NAPIER::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Mon Nov 11 1991 13:35 | 6 | |
Make sure you have the toolmanager icon itself come up visable. I
don't recall offhand how to do this, but it's in the docs. Double click
on that icon. You can then edit each one of the applications you have
set up. Fairly nice interface too.
-steve
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| 5183.5 | TENAYA::MWM | Mon Nov 11 1991 15:14 | 4 | ||
You can also have toolmanager add a "open toolmanager window" entry to the tools menu. This menu entry does the samething as double-clicking the icon. <mike | |||||