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Date: Sun 03-May-1989 18:13:57 From: Unknown Subject: Garbage can-like icons Suppose you wanted to build a tool that works like the garbage can whereby you move files to it. Say you wanted to call it TeX and that to format you would move an icon and then the file as formatted would appear on your favorite printer. How easy is it to integrate such a tool into the windowing system, and if it isn't, shouldn't it be easy? Thanks. Larry Rogers (Postmaster@Princeton.EDU) Manager, Operating Systems Princeton University Computing and Information Technology Computing Center 87 Prospect Street, Room 201 Princeton, NJ 08544 ARPANET/CSNET: lrr@Princeton.EDU >From: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman)
Date: Sun 05-May-1989 01:29:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Garbage can-like icons In article <8113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Lawrence R. Rogers writes: >Suppose you wanted to build a tool that works like the garbage can >whereby you move files to it. Say you wanted to call it TeX and that >to format you would move an icon and then the file as formatted would >appear on your favorite printer. How easy is it to integrate such a >tool into the windowing system, and if it isn't, shouldn't it be easy? It's easy. The Workspace Manager provides the functionality for your app to register one or more of its windows such that when the user drags a file icon on top of your window and lets go, a method in your app gets called. Take a look at the Draw & Icon programs in /NextDeveloper/Demos in 0.9: They both allow you to drop TIFF and PS icons from the Workspace in the drawing area. (Source for Draw is included in /NextDeveloper/Examples.) BTW, 0.9 includes TeX and Metafont. Fonts are generated on the fly as needed and stored in /LocalLibrary (thus making them available on that system to others). Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support aozer@NeXT.com >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Date: Sun 05-May-1989 01:29:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Garbage can-like icons In article <8113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Lawrence R. Rogers writes: >Suppose you wanted to build a tool that works like the garbage can >whereby you move files to it. Say you wanted to call it TeX and that >to format you would move an icon and then the file as formatted would >appear on your favorite printer. How easy is it to integrate such a >tool into the windowing system, and if it isn't, shouldn't it be easy? It's easy. The Workspace Manager provides the functionality for your app to register one or more of its windows such that when the user drags a file icon on top of your window and lets go, a method in your app gets called. Take a look at the Draw & Icon programs in /NextDeveloper/Demos in 0.9: They both allow you to drop TIFF and PS icons from the Workspace in the drawing area. (Source for Draw is included in /NextDeveloper/Examples.) BTW, 0.9 includes TeX and Metafont. Fonts are generated on the fly as needed and stored in /LocalLibrary (thus making them available on that system to others). Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support aozer@NeXT.com >From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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