a couple rox ideas

Forum: Apps
Topic: a couple rox ideas
started by: lucky13

Posted by lucky13 on Mar. 21 2007,11:05

I've added a page this morning to my blog with a few basic ideas for how rox can be used effectively with DSL. I focused on pinboarding, which I think is it's greatest strength. It's not exhaustive, but maybe someone will find it useful.

< http://lucky13.blogsavy.com/rox-rocks/ >

Posted by roberts on Mar. 24 2007,14:35

Rox is indeed very nice.

In the past I and several others pushed to move to Rox-Filer.

I have one DSL machine with jwm and rox and it is preferred by most who are comming from Windows.

Thanks for sharing.

Posted by jpeters on April 06 2007,20:05

Rox icons don't necessarily work the same as those in .xtdesktop.
A link to a calculator program I wrote in TCLTK works perfectly when loaded from an icon in .xtdesktop or from a command line. When loaded from ROX, however, it breaks after the first calculation. I have no idea why, but it does the same thing consistently.

Posted by lucky13 on April 06 2007,20:12

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I have no idea why, but it does the same thing consistently.

I'm curious how you set it up. I haven't had that kind of problem with bash, Tcl, or lua scripts.

Posted by jpeters on April 07 2007,01:51

I'm just clicking on the app icon in the /home/dsl filer window. The program loads, but won't calculate. Clicking an icon linked to the same path in .xtdesktop loads the program, and it works fine.

I also use a pinboard, and everything else seems to work fine (including a few other programs written in TCLTK).