velcro

Having bought the Archive vol 12 CD at the RISCOS 99 show, I have just
discovered Gavin Wraith's application 'Velcro'. It is in the section
corresponding to the magazine disc for vol. 12 no 1. (I don't get the
discs, so I had not seen it before.)


This is a simple application that puts an icon on the iconbar. Other slave
apps, normally filters, that have a run file that takes a parameter can be
dragged to it, and it then appear as icon bar apps themselves. Thus it
provides similar funtionality to Acorns FrontEnd, but is much simpler to set
up and use. (Of course you do not get quite the same flexibility, but if you
need different parameter settings you can always use differnt slave apps.)

Gavin uses it for gawk, but it should work just as well for Perl. This is
potentially so useful that I am inclined to suggest it goes in the standard
distribution. Gavin's email is 

	[email protected]

Steve

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