user-startup -- Really useful?

[chris]

adolescent wrote:
Useful.  Sure, I could combine everything into one.  But, then the next BB comes out and overwrites it and I need to add everything back in again.   I don't see a valid reason to change.

And that's a very good reason for leaving the startup-sequence alone and only adding commands to user-startup, not to mention that Installer plays with user-startup by default (and can happily add and change sections relevant to particular installed applications), and you can add commands to user-statup with an "echo >>s:user-startup".

Obviously on occasion you need to add things before or immediately after Setpatch, but for most things user-startup works perfectly.

Chris

[chris]

amigaguy wrote:
And how exactly do you determine which programs are executed first in the WB Startup drawer now that you moved them there?

There's a tooltype - STARTPRI I think - which sets the order the programs are launched in.  Under OS3.5 and up, there is a section under Icon => Information to set this without manually adding tooltypes.  Under normal circumstances it doesn't matter which order WBStartUp programs are launched in anyway.

Chris

[chris]

scholle wrote:
As we now, the user-startup script is called by run, thus executed in background. So the execution of programs called by startup-sequence is not over yet.

Not according to my default startup-sequence: user-startup is just executed.  It would be potentially dangerous to let it execute while startup-sequence is opening Workbench, and would also prevent the initial Shell from closing, making the bootup look a bit messy.

Chris