Ideas for default buttons:

Only spend 10 minutes or so putting this together but here are some
'interesting' and/or 'useful' buttons from my setup which I think
would work well as default examples. (Ahh, if only everyone had *my*
setup then I could include all the horrible complex ones! hehe).



A button in a button-bank which pops up a text-button-bank for launching
the standard prefs programs in sys:prefs/. I think a lot of people like
these Win'95 Start Button emulators and don't actually realise they
can do this kind of stuff already, and the prefs programs are about the
only ones you can assume exist. (It's also quite a useful button to have!)



A "Multiview" button:
 Left: "Sys:Utilities/Multiview {f}"   Do All Files
Right: "Sys:Utilities/Multiview"

As well as being useful, this demonstrates drag-n-drop to button banks
and a method of getting around the fact that you can't just run multiview
with no arguments by left-clicking with nothing selected. (Considering
ToolManager didn't allow RMB functions it isn't that bad).


A "NewShell" button in the button-bank.
An "Exchange" button.


Some example "new lister" buttons, maybe for "Sys:" and "Ram:", which
can show people that the "ScanDir" command can be used for this. They
can then adapt it to their own system. IMO this is quite important as
a lot of people felt lost without path buttons.
- Also, a "New lister" button which does "Devicelist new", a la LMB
  double click. (Some people might not be into the LMB-DClick idea
  at first).


"Edit User-Startup" (& Startup-sequence)  buttons. These are frequently
used here and I wish I'd thought of it before (or someone had given it to
me as a default button before <g>).


Obviously, buttons for all the different functions of DOpusFuncs should
be included ;-).


Definately include a note somewhere about how to setup the directory
filetype to do ScanDir on drag-n-drop (assuming this isn't made the
default).


One of my favourate buttons at the moment:
LMB: Call's Edmunds ArrangeListers script.
RMB: Iconifies all listers (via DOpusFuncs)
MMB: Closes all listers (via DOpusFuncs)
- I also have all of these in a my user menu "misc./listers"



Maybe this is a little advanced for newbies and requires too much
system-specific editing: (* = non-standard command :( ).

My User1 (View, Doubleclick) function for XPKCompressed files:

Function : AmigaDOS   Copy {fu} Goodies:Spool/{ou}
           AmigaDOS   Protect Goodies:Spool/{ou} +drew
(*)        AmigaDOS   PackX File Goodies:Spool/{ou} PRI 3 GUI PUBSCR {Qs}
           AmigaDOS   Sys:Utilities/MultiView Goodies:Spool/{ou} SCREEN
           AmigaDOS   Delete Goodies:Spool/{o}

   Flags : Run asynchronously
           Do all files


Also, please stress the use of the UserX commands. E.G. User2 for all
filetypes a "decompress" action, then you can just have a button which
decompresses all files of all types at once.


LhA Add: (*NO* non-standard commands, just cunning stunts (i.e. klude))
(Filerequester points to destination by default -- cannot be done
internally).
Function : AmigaDOS   FailAt 21
           AmigaDOS   System:C/RequestFile DRAWER="{d}" NOICONS PUBSCREEN={Qs} SAVEMODE >PIPE:{Qp}
           AmigaDOS   IF WARN
           AmigaDOS   TYPE PIPE:{Qp}
           AmigaDOS   Skip NArcAddEnd
           AmigaDOS   ENDIF
           AmigaDOS   Set FileName `TYPE PIPE:{Qp}`
           AmigaDOS   LhA -r -x -Qo u "`Get FileName`" {O}
           AmigaDOS   Lab NArcAddEnd

   Flags : Output to window
           CD source
           Rescan dest
           Window close button




Uh, I haven't forgotten about the article... Just too much work and too
much laziness (I did some more on it last week and plan to finish it
very soon -- sorry).

Lecture in 5 minutes, gotta dash!

	Leo