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Re: System variables cleanup

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In message <5dbbfb3952.beeb@ron1954.woosh.co.nz>
       Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> wrote:

> In message
> <gemini.lvg3m800vvl7t0078.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk>
>           Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > > There is an option where the System config could hold preferred
> > > Run types until an application  forces it otherwise. An app could
> > > read any existing runtype and replace it on quitting.
> > 
> > If I understand you correctly, that's sort of how it can work now.
> > Let's say App A and App B can both handle Widget files. App A sets
> > an Alias$@RunType so that if you double-click a Widget file it runs
> > App A. But if you then quit App A and run App B, double-clicking a
> > Widget file will load it into App B for as long as App B is
> > running, but will re-run App A when App B is quit.
> > 
> I dont think it is wrong that an app sets a runtype when the program
> is  actually run, otherwise it would lose it's rightful purpose.

The one time when an application doesn't need an Alias$@RunType set is
when it is actually running, as it will (if properly written), handle
the open message for double-clicked files internally.

Alias$@RunType is only of use when an application isn't running - it
well the Wimp what application to run if nothing handles the open
message.

-- 
Nick Roberts           tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk           

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-27 16:11 +1300
  Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 05:13 +0100
    Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-27 18:29 +1300
  Re: System variables cleanup Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 21:55 +0000
    Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-28 12:27 +1300
      Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 06:33 +0100
        Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 00:29 +1300
          Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 13:14 +0000
            Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 11:50 +1300
              Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 23:22 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 13:19 +1300
                Re: System variables cleanup Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 21:41 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 08:33 +0100
              Re: System variables cleanup Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 21:38 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 08:20 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 16:00 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-02 08:38 +0100
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-03 12:05 +1300
                Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-03 06:31 +0100
                Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-12-03 10:02 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-04 11:39 +1300
          Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 08:20 +0100
            Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-01 10:22 +1300
            Re: System variables cleanup Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-11-30 23:59 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 07:21 +0100
        Re: System variables cleanup jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-12-01 14:15 +0000
          Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-02 08:35 +0100
  Re: System variables cleanup druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-27 22:47 +0000
    Re: System variables cleanup druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-30 20:19 +0000

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