Do somthing with a directory besides viewing
Robert Skinner
robert at texas.esd.sgi.com
Wed Jun 27 08:22:34 AEST 1990
In article <9006261127.AA07184 at mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>,
root at MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
|>
|> If I click on a directory below, I want to startup my appliation, not
open the
|> directory. Workspace does not seem to recognize these two matches.
What am I
|> doing bad ?
|>
|> TYPE SkullDirectory
|> MATCH dircontains(".SkullDir");
|> # MATCH glob("D.Skulls");
|> CMD OPEN echo $LEADER
|> ICON
|> {
|> include("SkullDir.fti");
|> }
|>
|>
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(Betsy may followup with a definitive response later, but for now:)
The open/alt-open/etc.. rules for directories were originally
interpreted like other files, but are now hard-coded in the
workspace. Performance increased *dramatically* because directory
rules are used so extensively. The performance increase was considered
worth the loss of flexibility.
(Page 2-10 of "Programming the IRIS WorkSpace" mentions this.)
I believe the workspace-heads are working on relaxing this condition.
Robert Skinner
robert at sgi.com
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's;
an' his hair was perfect...
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