Assigning icons
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Is it true that some programs are written such that icons really can't be
assigned to them? I use CLI mainly, but am getting very frustrated that I can't
make an icon for uShow in the usual way of copying over a similar one and
renaming it. I love uShow, but don't always want to enter CLI just for a "demo
session". Any ideas?
Karl
Yes, some programs won't run from an icon since they expect to have a
pre-existing CLI window in which to send their output (ushow is one such
program). There are two solutioms however:
1. Get a different SHOW program. There is an older one called
Show21 that works fine from an icon.
2. Find the public-domain program called XICON. This lets you
create an icon that will execute a script-file, so you just
write a script that uses USHOW. This works fine with the
original USHOW (by Darren Massena), but be careful of some
of the newer USHOW's — there is one that requires a CTRL-C
to quit, and if you launch it via WorkBench using XICON there
is no CLI window to input the CTRL-C so you can't shut it off…
–apl