Original Author Paul Laughton, 2011
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De Re BASIC!
3. Scroll horizontally until you see the BASIC! icon that says Launcher Shortcuts.
4. Touch and hold that entry. It will be moved to the Home page.
5. Continue with step 8, above.
What you need to know
The icon image file must be located in the "<pref base drive>/rfo-basic/data/" directory.
The program that you are going to run must be in the "source" directory or one of its sub
directories. In this example, the file was located in the Sample_Programs(d) subdirectory of
the "source(d)" directory.
The icon should be a .png file. A Google search for "icon" will reveal thousands for free
icons. Just copy your icon into "rfo-basic/data" on the SD card.
Be very careful to correctly spell the names of the program and icon files. BASIC! does not
check to see if these files actually exist during the "compile" process. If you enter the name
of an icon file that does not exist, your shortcut will have the generic Android icon. If the file
name you specified does not exist, when you tap the Shortcut you will see an error message
in the form of program file in the Editor.
The Shortcut name should be nine (9) characters or less. Android will not show more than
nine characters.
You can create as many shortcuts as you home screen(s) can handle.
Tapping "Cancel" in the Launcher Shortcuts dialog will simply cancel the operation and
return to the home screen.
If you plan to use a BASIC! Launcher Shortcut, you should always exit BASIC! using Exit-Menu
or Menu->More->Exit. If a Launched program is running, tapping BACK once or twice will
exit BASIC back to the Home Screen.