Re: To the author of EasyOpen

[rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)]

In article <1993Apr24.062608.4697@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

[Stuff about EasyOpen nuked]

>1. Duplicates the icons when the file is aliased (or shift-OA-D). It looks
>   weird as the generic icon. 

	This would not by an easy thing to do.  Lets assume my program
was going to do that.  First it would have to read through the whole
icons folder looking for a match, then when it found a match it would
have to load in the icon and save it as a rbundle matched by name to
the alias.  While that is possible, and not too terribly hard, it
would add size to the alias files, and also take more time to create
them.  An easier solution (which has already been implemented on
internal versions) is that folder aliases, and document aliases have
their own filetypes (given to me by Apple) so that you can match them
with an "alias" icon if you wish.  Also, the code has been changed so
that SYS and S16 aliases will appear as S16 files so they can be
launched from any GS/OS launcher. (even if EasyOpen isn't currently running!)

>2. Let user drags the files into the alias folder.

	I'm not sure that this is possible, but I'll look into it.

>3. Handle more file types instead of just folder, s16 and sys. For example,
>   is the alias is a file, just treat it like a normal text file, pass it
>   to an editor or finder extension depends on the path in icon.

	Ok, allowing you to alias any file has also been added to
easyopen and will be in the next release, however it will only work
with finderextensions.  Handling it the way you would like also would
require parsing the whole icons folder, figuring out what program owns
the icon in question, and then figuring out some way to get it into
the message center without finder messing it up.

>I kind of like this program, but it is kind of limited at the moment, and I
>hope some of my suggestions can be taken. Thanks.

The next version is much less limited and will be released in not too
long.  However, most of your ideas would require a reasonable amount
of work, and I can not in any way justify that work for the $20 I have
gotten from 4 people paying the measly $5 I request.  Now if you
happened to be one of those 4 people I might have a different view.
Ask Nathan Mates (GSHacker on IRC)  he sent in his payment, and I have
been doing my best to implement features that he has wanted.

(btw I am the author of EasyOpen.. and I've talked to you on IRC using
the nickname: TheJazz)

	>  Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.

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