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@broadblues Accessing the catalogs directly in such a way would be a bad idea, restricting the OS devs from updating them in any way they see fit. That is true. IMHO, if such a feature was added it should be via the locale.library API. I agree - although I don't hold out much hope for that being add...

I'm working on a program that uses country and language names, which I naturally want to display localized. Considering that these are already available in the system's countries.catalog and languages.catalog, I think it would be quite absurd (and a waste of resources) if programs had to put country...

Personally I like filer, and much prefer over DOpus5 as it doesn't replace the workbench, but augments it. + 1. I'm not a fan of DOpus5 either, and I don't call for replacing Workbench in this vein. But I like Filer and use it every day. Thanks for the tip with ContextMenus, I've now added it to my...

@eliyahu

it'd be wonderful to integrate the commodity version more cleanly into workbench somehow

Strictly speaking, there's no "commodity version" - the commodity is just a launcher for the main executable. But yes, it'd be nice to have Filer updated and integrated into Workbench.

I wonder if the Filer code has been touched at all since acquiring the rights.

broadblues wrote:You probably do need to reload images if you jump from CLUT to 16/32 or vice verca

Yes you do need to do that, I've just checked.

but not if you jump from 16/32 to another 16/32 .

Correct.

@chris

I've also seen screenshots of a new version of Exchange that can manage both Commodities and Applications.

And I can tell you that it's still being worked on and is probably not too far away

@OldFart After a lot of discussion on this topic it appears that you're not going to get an answer unless someone with access to the commodities.library code can determine what qualifiers and codes are acceptable and create a list of them in the autodocs or WIKI. Try contacting Steven Solie. AFAIK h...

@OldFart

I'll try and have every keyword attach to every qualifier and see whether that produces a viable CxFilter by checking the errorcode it sets.

Great! In the meantime I'll put the adapted Hotkey.c example in the wiki if you don't mind.

@chris Yes, definitely something that can't be enabled/disabled is not a commodity. I'll try to update the wiki with some more specific information about what a commodity is, and what types of program should (not) be implemented as a commodity. @xenic I'll try not to be too restrictive in doing that...