Are there shortcuts in Workbench 3.1?

[AmigaHeretic]

Hi,

I would like to make the commodity 'ClickToFront' run on Workbench Start-up. Of course I could just move this commodity to the WBStartup (as I am doing now).

However is there maybe a way I can do a short-cut so that I leave the ClickToFront commodity in the Commodities directory and just put a short-cut in the WBStartup directory?

Regards,
Sim085

Well, the way I do it is just make a copy of 'ClickToFront'.  Then put the copy into WBStartup.  That way all the Commodities stay where they are in that drawer.


'ClickToFront' is less than 4k in size.  A shortcut in Windows probably is larger in size than that. ;-)  

So unless you're on a floppy and really need every list kilobyte, then for me this is basically the same thing as a shortcut.  (this way also if I mess with the tooltypes of the one in WBStartup I'm safe in knowing the original in the Commodities drawer is always set to the correct defaults)

[AmigaHeretic]

Thanks again. I managed to make the script run by using the FROM parameter as you suggested I then used the RUN command to run the wanted program.

I now just have to understand how I can use the CLI to run a script without actually opening the CLI window.

Do you mean run the script from the icon?

in the C folder is a program called iconX  (think it comes with the OS)

If you right click on the Icon for your script and go to properties, where it says 'Default Tool'  put

C:iconx

That should make it so the script will start just like you went to CLI and ran the script.


As for inside the script you can use run >nil: instead of just run which will keep CLI windows comming up everytime a run command is issued in the script.