OpenEuphoria

Re: LaunchPad 02

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 07, 2006
• 455 views

Hi again Antonio,

I put your replies in quotes here...


"Create a new button for every running program or active folder etc."
Yikes   Are you sure you would want that?  I dont think it's too hard
to do.  I think i like the 'active folder' button maker, but what do
you mean by 'active folder'...i was thinking it would sorta be cool to
have a "Windows Explorer" with buttons instead of icons he he, and 
every folder is a tab button.  Is this what you mean?  No reason why
i cant keep generating new versions i guess until we get something
really cool.

"Close every running prog. after creating the button."
This wouldnt be hard to do either, but do you mean a "close all" button?
Do you have to close EVERY running program that often, or would you want
to 'stock' the button to close only those programs you want?


"I refer to the option of a possible selection of the running instances: "
"I mean to be prompted if to create a button or not for every program found."
Oh ok i see what you mean now, so you can sort of save the 'run state' of
your computer, then later click a single button to get all the programs
up and running again so you can continue with your work.  This sounds 
really good.  Many times i like to halt working on something and come
back to it later, but i dont want to have to leave all the windows
open that im working with so i close everything (or at least most). Later
when i come back i have to figure out where everything is again and open
everything *again*, one by one.
I can see this being VERY handy, but what if we have a particular, say, text
file up like say "MyNotes.txt" in Notepad or Edita or another text editor,
we'd have to have a way to not only open Notepad AGAIN but with MyNotes.txt
loaded into it.  If this is possible (havent thought about it much yet) then
we will have a VERY handy tool here...sortof like a 'computer state
saver/restorer'.
Hibernate does this, but you have to go into hib mode and we dont always want
that of course.


All good ideas which i will incorporate into the button launcher.
Probably start with the one where you can open several programs
with only one button.  I'll just have to figure out how to get
the name of the file that has been opened or else we'll have to
type that in ourselves, like maybe this (all on one button as
you suggested):

  open Notepad "c:\download\mytext1.txt"
  open Path\Edita "c:\download\myfile.ew"
  open Path\MyEditor "c:\mypath\myotherfile.ew"

Yeah, this is *too* good.  Im going to have to start thinking about this
right away 

Maybe it's not that hard after all:
  point a button to a .bat file that opens all the above files!
Heck, we can do this now!!! :)
I think i'll try this right now...

Thanks for all the good ideas!


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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