Toolsdaemon

[Jimbo]

Hey guys

Need a little bit of help with a command, if it can be done that is. I want to right click on workbench to open my modded menus, click on Programs. When I click on programs I want it to open the Programs GUI drawer, not just in CLI.

I have no idea what such a command would be to do this? I also want to add WHDLoad A-Z to the menus so it will open the correct drawer as in A when clicked. This is workbench 3.1 so basically is that a CLI command that will actually open a GUI drawer on screen.

Any help would be great.

Cheers

[matthey]

If I understand you correctly, it can't be done in AmigaOS 3.1 easily. If you had AmigaOS 3.5+ with it's WB ARexx interface, you could enter a cli command as a menu item to open a WB drawer like this...

RX "address WORKBENCH;WINDOW 'device:drawer' OPEN"

Where device:drawer is replaced by the path of the drawer to open.

[Jimbo]

Hey

Yeap you understood me correct Thats a pain. From what I understand 3.5 can be run with a standard A1200 speed with fastram? Would this run os3.5 ok do you think:

A1200 3.1 roms, GVP A1208 with 8Mb and FPU

Only problem is is if it does run ok I bet I would lose a big chunk of fastram. Somebody said Scalos might be able to do this.

Thanks for your time

[cosmicfrog]

is it possible just to copy the arexx libs from 3.5 to 3.1 to make it work ??

just a thought, I`d like to see you succeeding with this Jimbo as I have never seen it done

edit yep that spec should run wb3.5

[matthey]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

is it possible just to copy the arexx libs from 3.5 to 3.1 to make it work ??

I highly doubt you could retrofit to 3.1. The support is in the new WB and associated libraries. ARexx is much the same as always.

edit yep that spec should run wb3.5

I would recommend moving all the way up to AmigaOS 3.9. It shouldn't be any slower than AmigaOS 3.5 and it has more features and less bugs. There is the nice advantage of more patches (BB3) for it too. It can be made faster and memory use reduced more easily.

[Cammy]

It's kinda funny, I wanted to do this same thing and was devastated to find out it can't be done in 3.1. I didn't think of Scalos though, that would definitely be a better option for you than moving up to OS3.9, provided the feature works in the older, stable version of Scalos that comes with ClassicWB.

I'm going to add the Arexx commands to my ToolsDaemon menu anyway, and try it out once I successfully install 3.9 from an ISO image on a SD card.

Just in case you're curious, here's the thread where we already came to this conclusion: http://utilitybase.com/forum/index.p...=19&topic=2122

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

is it possible just to copy the arexx libs from 3.5 to 3.1 to make it work ??

Originally Posted by matthey

I highly doubt you could retrofit to 3.1. The support is in the new WB and associated libraries. ARexx is much the same as always.

There's no harm in trying the libs in 3.1 (but why not use 3.9 libs straight away). I already have some of OS3.9 functionality in my WB3.1 but i guess AfA_OS brings them with its need for icon.library + workbench.library + Setpatch from OS3.9.

[Jimbo]

@ Cammy

Great minds think alike

I did find this:

http://de3.aminet.net/util/cli/cli2win.readme

It states os3.5 OR opus

Not quite sure how it works using opus yet

[Bloodwych]

In the ClassicWB 3.0/1 packs, I use Scalos as mentioned above (one of its many, many advantages).

For the 3.5/9 packs, I use opendrawer:

http://aminet.net/search?query=opendrawer

Tools Daemon needs patching for 3.5/9:

http://aminet.net/search?query=toolsdaemon+22

Hope this helps.

[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by Bloodwych

In the ClassicWB 3.0/1 packs, I use Scalos as mentioned above (one of its many, many advantages).

For the 3.5/9 packs, I use opendrawer:

http://aminet.net/search?query=opendrawer

Tools Daemon needs patching for 3.5/9:

http://aminet.net/search?query=toolsdaemon+22

Hope this helps.

Thanks very much for this info. I think for now I will try Scalos and the os3.5 just to see what feels better.

Just need to work out the command for scalos to open a GUI drawer from cli now

Cheers

[Jimbo]

Ok this is what I did. Could not do it with 3.1 at all.

Installed os3.9 (thanks thomas) was shocked at how well it runs, thought it would need a 030 at least. toolsdaemon patched was freezing my machine so I used this for the tools menu:

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/MoreTools

Very easy to use, just edit the mtdata file to add options to the menu.

Now opening the drawer was still being a pain the RX command above gave me errors, tried lots of different progs until I found this one:

http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/OpenDrawer

Dead simple just copy opendrawer to C:

Then from mtdata just add something like A (for me this is for whdload) command is opendrawer games:a

I now have all my apps plus A-Z whdload games/demos from my workbench main menu

Happy bunny

Many thanks to everyone who helped me.

[Bloodwych]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Now opening the drawer was still being a pain the RX command above gave me errors, tried lots of different progs until I found this one:

http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/OpenDrawer

Dead simple just copy opendrawer to C:

That's the one I linked for you just above! You should have read my reply!

The Toolsdeamon patch does work fine - I use it in my packs and it's very stable.

I'm glad you've got it sorted anyway and found a solution that works for you.

As for Scalos, it does take a little work to install properly. I spent ages customizing it too. The opendrawer command is in the Scalos command drawer I think, or it may have been an extra plugin I can't remember without checking.

[Jimbo]

Whoops I thought your first link was for the unpatched toolsdaemon then 2nd link was for the patch. I spent all that time messing about and you already gave me the correct prog. hehe

thanks

Originally Posted by Bloodwych

That's the one I linked for you just above! You should have read my reply!

The Toolsdeamon patch does work fine - I use it in my packs and it's very stable.

I'm glad you've got it sorted anyway and found a solution that works for you.

As for Scalos, it does take a little work to install properly. I spent ages customizing it too. The opendrawer command is in the Scalos command drawer I think, or it may have been an extra plugin I can't remember without checking.

[Bloodwych]

There is a lot of tweaking you can do to improve your setup. You may already know as you discussed it iin the following thread, but Cammy posted a good list to get going in there:

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=694592&postcount=10

Cammy got this from 16 colours using many programs in that list: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=694007&postcount=51

...and Rebels optimized palette.

[Jimbo]

Holy moly that looks awesome, when ever you think you have things set up just right, someone pops up with something even better. Now I have to spend hours trying to get something like that

Thanks for showing me this my wife would like to say thanks as well because it keeps me out of her way.

Great work Cammy now I have a real reason to PM you