Fiddle-dee-dee! Having just chastised someone for posting AND emailing, I find myself having to do just that because of... well, shall we say "wibbly finger syndrome". Sorry David.
On Sat 16 Mar, David H Wild wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I also have the run action of Perl files set to run > > them in a task window for convenience. > > Thank you very much - they should be very useful. My pleasure. :-) > Can you post how you altered the run action? I was going to > try this, but wasn't sure how to do it. Hmmm, I'm not sure I went about this in the most orthodox manner. First I changed the last line of the !Perl.!Run file from: /<Obey$Dir>.Perl %*0 to: If "<Wimp$State>"="commands" then /<Obey$Dir>.Perl %*0 else TaskWindow "/<Obey$Dir>.Perl %*0" 1024k Perl -quit Then I realised that the !Perl.!Boot file was resetting the run action each time so I commented out line 46 as follows: | Set Alias$@RunType_102 WimpSlot 1024K|m /<Perl$Dir>.Perl %%*0 This has the advantage that I can double click Perl files to run them in a task window but still run them from the F12 command line directly. The only limitation is that you can't run Perl programs from a task window's star prompt unless you prefix it with *perl. However, some time later I spotted that it might have been easier just to have uncommented line 57 of the !Boot file: | Set Alias$@RunType_102 Taskwindow |"<Perl$Dir>.Perl %%*0|" -wimpslot 2048k -name |"Perl 5.005" -display -quit Although, I'm happy that I did it my way because uncommenting line 57 does not allow Perl programs to be run at the F12 star prompt (unless prefixed with *perl of course). Hmmm, I can't help feeling there ought to be a way to arrange for all three situations (double clicking, F12 star prompt, and task window star prompt) to work smoothly. I suppose all it would need is someone to write a code variable to detect the environment appropriately. -- James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based in Southam, Cheltenham, UK. PGP key available ID: 3FBE1BF9 Fingerprint: F19D803624ED6FE8 370045159F66FD02
