Variable injection?

[solarmon]

Hi,

Is there a better way to inject environment variables, or some other data injection method, when UAE boots up an environment - preferably from a .uae config file.

At the moment, I'm using the Volume name (limited to 30 characters) of a mounted device as a method to pass on a text value that can be read by the startup-sequence (using GetVolumeName found on Aminet)

Cheers!

[Toni Wilen]

I guess easiest is to add custom config entry to config file (just make sure it is unique enough to not cause conflicts in the future) and use uae-configuration to read it.

[solarmon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

I guess easiest is to add custom config entry to config file (just make sure it is unique enough to not cause conflicts in the future) and use uae-configuration to read it.

Thanks for the quick response.

I wasn't aware of uae-configuration, but I now see that it comes with ClassicWB LITE - so I'll take a look at this.

Thanks once again!

Cheers!

[solarmon]

Hi,

Just tried it and it works perfectly!

I don't think you can get uae-configuration to return the value of a specific config - I think it just dumps all of it - so I just wrote an Arexx script that parses through the dumped configuration file (in RAM and returns the first matching config entry value.

Just need to make sure the config variable is at the top of the config, to minimise the DO WHILE loop time.

For anybody that is interested, here's my quick (as in dirty, not as in optimised) ARexx script:

/* GetUAEConfigValue.rexx                   */
/* Returns the value of a uae config        */
/* Requires RAM:uae-configuration           */
/* Create the with:                         */
/* uae-configuration >RAM:uae-configuration */
/*                                          */
/* Usage: rx getuaeconfigvalue <config>     */

PARSE ARG config

OPEN( 'uae-configuration-fh', 'RAM:uae-configuration', 'R')

DO WHILE ~EOF('uae-configuration-fh')
	
	line = READLN('uae-configuration-fh')
	
	line_lastpos = LASTPOS("=",line)
	line_length = LENGTH(line)
	
	IF (line_lastpos > 1) & ~(line_length == line_lastpos) THEN
	DO
		line_config = LEFT(line,line_lastpos-1)
		line_value = RIGHT(line, (line_length - line_lastpos))

		IF (config == line_config) THEN
		DO
			SAY line_value
			RETURN
		END
	END	
END

[Toni Wilen]

uae-configuration <name of config entry> (without <>)

[solarmon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

uae-configuration <name of config entry> (without <>)

Doh! I tried a 'uae-configuration ?' and it didn't return anything so I didn't try it!

Thanks, that is even better now!

[Toni Wilen]

It is ultra-minimal program, nothing extra

It can also be used to change config options on the fly. (uae-configuration configentry value)

[solarmon]

Do you know why it would be returning a failure code of 10 if I try to use it with the backticks method to set an environment variable? See attached image.

I can set environment variables OK, and I can use output redirection to ENV: OK to. Howver, using the backticks method it does return the correct result, but fails with a return code of 10.

[solarmon]

It seems that when you use the uae-configuration command in a shell script, or with backticks from the shell, it throws this error. Running the command directly and normally from a shell/cli does not seem to cause this issue.

(I also noticed that the output for a config value (when redirected to a file) has a Line Feed at the end of it. I'm not sure whether this is intentional, or a common thing on the Amiga?)

[idrougge]

[QUOTE=solarmon;1298789]

PARSE ARG config

OPEN( 'uae-configuration-fh', 'RAM:uae-configuration', 'R')

DO WHILE ~EOF('uae-configuration-fh')
	
	PARSE VALUE READLN('uae-configuration-fh') WITH line_config '=' line_value
	
	IF config == line_config THEN
	DO
		SAY line_value
		RETURN
	END
END

[solarmon]

[QUOTE=idrougge;1298861]

Thanks! I didn't realise you could use PARSE in this way. Great tip!

[Toni Wilen]

Wrong error code even when matching entry was found will be fixed in next version (it is uae-side bug, also fixed in winuae.7z)

I am not sure if it is safe (= if someone expects it and uses it in scripts) to not output LF when program runs in non-interactive mode but it would be easy update.

[solarmon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Wrong error code even when matching entry was found will be fixed in next version (it is uae-side bug, also fixed in winuae.7z)

I am not sure if it is safe (= if someone expects it and uses it in scripts) to not output LF when program runs in non-interactive mode but it would be easy update.

OK - thanks for the confirmation.

I'll dump it to RAM and use my ARexx script until it gets fixed.