#: 16711 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    17-Oct-92  04:10:24
Sb: #16709-Desktop hacks
Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)


 Mark,

 > I've been playing with Open Look version 3 on one of the Sun workstations at
 > work.  It has a different icon for each file.  It must read each and every
 > file to do this thought since it can tell the difference between a "C"
 > source code file and a header file, as well as a postscript file and a
 > normal text file.  Pretty slick!  Each icon type then gets a different set
 > of parameters for forking and printing.  I don't think this will be easy
 > to do for OSK, if at all, but it sure would be nice!

 You can do this under OSK.  G-WINDOWS has this feature.  The file icon
 shows the name of the file and what type it is; i.e., "C", "ASM", "PROG",
 "SUBR", "SYS", etc.  Since there will be files G-WINDOWS doesn't recognize,
 you can write your own file recognizer program and add the info to the
 'config' file.  Sample source code for a file recognizer program is included.

 Have at it .

 Ed Gresick - DELMAR CO