wrote:
>> Have you seen the commandline tools for amigaOS??
>> Like filereq that pops up a window and asks for a filename and then passes
>> the results back to the shellscript. A graphical version is much more in
>> the line of arachne than existing text versions like WBAT or BE.
>This is something which definitely should be done for Gtk/Linux!
It is possible to use dos like this too ;-)
but it is not a common way to write dos programs for this...
C:\>filereq | viewer
is close in functionality to amigas
workbench:\>viewer [filereq]
except that the filename is handled by a pipe instead of the amigashell.
But,
to make it exactly as amiga, would require ( IMHO a rather useless) rewrite
of command.com and has nothing to do with arachne.
Except...
that both amiga and arachne offers the possibility to click a icon to
execute a shellscript/batchfile that is hidden behind graphics.
>Arachne already offers functionality close to that, but not exactly
>that.
To be honest,
C:\>filereq | arachne.bat
seems a bit weird to me... ;-)
>Well, I don't need so much a fileselector, but rather some
>info windows, text input fields, etc.
me2.
But in the shape of tools to write small batchfiles that could be
called from mime.cfg like this (Nonexistant..) one ;-)
file/download.ah |[20]@call download.bat $1
---- download.bat ---
GMCHOICE.com Are you sure? [Yes|No] REM <-- i really hate those...
if errorlevel 1 exit
FILEREQ.com /V:ENVVARIABLE /D:download\
copy %1 %ENVVARIABLE%
if errorlevel 1 ALERTBOX.com Error while trying to save %ENVVARIABLE%
------
A nice little idea, isnt it?
But quite useless unless the handling of mime.cfg will be cleaned up a bit.
...but gmchoice / filereq / alertbox was from the beginning just examples
on stuff that could be written if the documentation was improved, and a
optional rewrite of ibase to use arachne.cfg/arachne.pck (+more) in a
language that is easy to understand, like english...
And if it once has been made, then there probably will be a small boom of
stuff written for arachne with it. like FTP/NC-clones, editors, cdplayers
and stuff, that would look nice on top of arachnes graphical screen.
Well... That was just my 5cents.
BUT, ALL I EVER WANTED, was a cleanup in the way arachne theats
different objects in mime.cfg...
So i tried to explain why it could be a good idea to do that,
and then took the examples way to far.
(I didnt expect anyone to confuse it with a fullblown OS either)
//Best regards,
Ted Olausson http://www.ted.olausson.as
