How to make iconx script file minimize

[Thomas]

What is the advantage of using project icon type with IconX as default tool vs. using tool icon type, setting S flag and set CLI as tooltype (or "Start from Shell" in 3.9 info window)?

The S flag can easily be lost when you copy the file to another location using the wrong options. For example the Copy CLI command will remove the flag if you forget to say CLONE.

[Thomas]

Yeah, but that is really a "meta problem", and in my eyes a flaw with the copy command, I always use clone and cannot fathom why that is not default. :hammer:

It's not only copy. If you use ZIP or TAR or any other non-Amiga archiver to transport the files to somewhere else, those non-standard flags get lost. Even with LhA flags are lost if you don't set the right options.

The same happens if you copy the file to a non-Amiga file system like FAT. CF0 comes to mind.

I was more curious in direct benefits/caveats with using one or the other.

The IconX thing also works on Kick 1.3.

[Thomas]

I was hoping there was a way to start a script from workbench and get it in a fullscreen shell without relying on anything other than whats in ROM but I guess there isn't.

You could do this with two scripts. You double click on script1 which contains just this:

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newshell con:0/0/9999/9999/Fullscreen_Shell/CLOSE/WAIT from script2