| 1 | stick is a small BASIC program that I wrote years ago , originally in assembler , which has saved me a lot of work . |
| 2 | It is useful for those wimp programs which do not open windows but put an icon on the iconbar , and for which all user input is either by clicking on the iconbar icon or by dragging something to it . |
| 3 | The use of stick allows you to define your application by means of Obey files called <excl>Select , <excl>Adjust and <excl>Drag , which are triggered when these actions take place . |
| 4 | These Obey files ( or TaskObey files in appropriate circumstances ) may typically execute non - wimp programs in other languages . |
| 5 | In other words , stick creates a wimp - task that handles only clicks on the iconbar ( including Menu ) or drags to the iconbar , and nothing else , pushing out to <excl>Select , <excl>Adjust and <excl>Drag , as far as they exist , the responsibility for how the computer should react . |
| 6 | You can download as an example the application taskW which runs in a taskwindow an executable that is dragged to it . |
| 7 | Its <excl>Drag file is a TaskObey file ( filetype <amp>FD7 ) which runs its first commandline argument ( <percnt>0 ) which is always the pathname of the object dragged onto the iconbar icon . |
| 8 | Its <excl>Run file 's essential command is stick <lt>Obey<dollar>dir<gt> which creates the application and puts its icon on the iconbar . |
| 9 | Every sticky application of this kind must have a template file called Templates , with a window - template called info in it . |
| 10 | This is to give the application an iconbar menu that behaves properly . |
| 11 | The simplest way of creating the template file is to copy the one in <excl>taskW and edit it in a template - editor . |
| 12 | I realize that it would have been easier for you had I brought out a version of stick that used MessageTrans to provide the menu items from a text file , but it would have meant more code in stick to create the menu , and I am lazy . |