I know I've been really quiet lately, but I've been working real hard on a project for a firm that is studying kangaroo leg actions as viable robotic arm movements. My job is to catalog movements that I don't think will be viable. I report them in a file with a .mike extension - Marsupial Improper Kick Examples. :-)
Prag On 9/22/2010 3:42 PM, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > .orx is fine (is in my list). I don't understand .cls (lots of OO > languages have classes, or clear screens). As for testUnit .. what has > that to do with Rexx? rxTestUnit, RexxTestUnit, ooRexxTestUnit, > ooRexxUnit (etc.), maybe .. > Grabbing generic names for specific projects just seems wrong to me. > Hmm, suppose I grabbed .rony for my latest avionics data format (or for > a really boring services-oriented business-methodology advert format...) > :-)? > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Rony G. Flatscher [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 22 September 2010 18:15 > *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] Enhanced Windows installation program > > > On 19.09.2010 15:34, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: >> > Would also associate in addition all other regular Rexx >> > extensions like ".rexx", ".cls", ".orx", ".testGroup", >> ".testUnit", which all >> > are in use in the Rexx world. >> .rexx and .orx .. maybe .. but the others just seem to be >> "grabbing extensions" -- particularly for most installers? > Originally I also thought that way. > > However, once I started to work with file associations may POV > changed: associating filetypes with rexx makes them stand out in the > graphical user-interfaces (Windows Explorer, Linux > Konquerer/Nautilus) as these files get icons assoic. > > So if one wishes to indicate (visually) to the user of which type a > file is, then one must associate the file-type with Rexx, hence also > associating the file-types ".orx", ".cls" (quite heavily used in > ooRexx!), ".testGroup" and ".testUnit". In addition these filetypes > can be run with rexx by mere double-clicking the files, which comes > with the file associations. > > So for the purpose of increasing the user friendlyness (and > easyiness of dealing with Rexx programs via the graphical user > interfaces of the respective operating systems) associating all > these filetypes with ooRexx seems to be necessary nowadays. > > ---rony > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
