AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag #4

[cloverskull]

While not intending to derail anything, can you speak to why your icon.library displays all deficons as ghosted? This has never made much sense to me, and personally I dislike the aesthetic. Beyond that, I really dig your icon.library.

[PeterK]

The ghosting of default icons was inspired by the PowerIcons patch and Ghosty from Elena Novaretti and I like it/her very much.

Of course, it looks much better when you use this feature on HiColor or TrueColor screens with smooth fading than on 8 bit or planar screens where only every other pixel is made transparent.

And you always know at the first glance whether an icon really exists or is just a deficon.

[macce2]

Which separate Modules etc. does OS3.9 BB2 RomUpdate File consist of ?

[Minuous]

You can see the contents if you load it into ROMSplit.

[macce2]

After some playing around with startup- sequences etc. the workbench menu (Tools) does have problem(s):
After installation of BB3&4 there are some commands added to the menu Tools: flush libraries command no longer works and/ or appears at the menu, it starts a backround cli window which does declare: " Command returned 10" . (?!) Guess it may somehow have something to do with THE editor ? But I haven' t edited that in any way and have tried replacing it with the original file, but to no avail. The problem is still there. Thus, if you run the command " flush lib", which parameters should I give it ..?!

[tero]

Flush libs doesn't need parameters. You get that message because the command of the menu entry can't be found. For 'flush libs' that is 'c:avail' iirc.
If you start THE you can see the used command.

[macce2]

Can' t get the right, new version of some modules ( console.device, filesystem at least) resident.
I have been playing around with some different combinations of startup- sequence.
At some point, I managed to have the right version of the above mentioned modules, but then THE didn' t work properly ( Flush libraries missing from the menu).
I' m starting to get frustrated .
Thus, I have problems with Loadmodule, Loadresident and Setpatch commands.
For example, My SetPatch version seems to be 44.38(?!), but it should be 44.39 ..?!
I think the installation of Boingbags 3&4 is way too difficult...

[Minuous]

@macce2:

I am happy to help of course, but your bug report is much too vague. You haven't given any details that would help isolate the issue, even what version of BB3&4 you installed, or what model of Amiga, etc. Of course randomly hacking at the startup-sequence will cause problems. This should not be necessary; you can just let the installer update startup-sequence for you. If there is still some problem after that, then please submit a bug report with sufficient details for me to isolate and resolve the issue.

SetPatch 44.38 is the correct version.

[SpeedGeek]

I have a possible bug or compatibility problem report for layers.library 45.27...

About a year ago, I updated my Kickstart 3.9 ROMs and they seemed to work just fine until today.

So what did I do today? Well, I just tried to use P96!

My system crashed any time I loaded a monitor driver. So, thinking I possibly had some corrupted files I started replacing P96 libraries, chip set drivers, monitor drivers and settings files but NO LUCK at all.

Then, I remembered that I had not used P96 since the last 3.9 ROM update. After eliminating workbench.library and icon.library I then tried LOADMODULE layers.library(40.1) DOWNGRADE and voila P96 is working just fine!

Now, is there some obscure P96 Tooltype or ENV: variable which I need to set for layers.library 45.27 or I do I happen to be the first user to test this version with P96?

[PeterK]

When layers.library v45 is installed then you have to remove or rename Libs:Picasso96/fastlayers.library. It's not required anymore and causes conflicts with the new layers.library.

[SpeedGeek]

Thanks PeterK!

I don't use the BB3+4 Installer which renames fastlayers.library for you...

[TuKo]

I think I've found a potential bug in Execute 45.17 command from ShellUpdate 45.39 from ThoR. I know that BB3&4 is using 45.15 but it might also be present in that version (to be confirmed).

It seems Execute will, under some circumstance, *eat* last line of executed script and append it to the line before.

For example, if at end of your User-Startup you have something like :

If Blabla
Echo Zglorb
EndIf

It will be treated as "Echo ZglorbEndIf".

Only workaround I found is to add a white line ad the end of my User-Startup.

[Minuous]

It doesn't need a blank line, just proper termination of each line with a linefeed.

[ancalimon]

I tried copying over the latest version over my os3.9 installation and found a more recent file on my system:

reqtools.library : bb4 has 39.3 (15/11/01). Latest is 39.3 rev2 (11/02/03)

Also some xad and xfd libraries have different filesize. Probably mine are for 040&060.

[Minuous]

V39.3 rev2 used to be in BB4, but that version turned out to be problematic, hence it was reverted to V39.3.

[ancalimon]

I wonder what problems it causes

Can you also include xad and xfd libs for faster processors?

[TuKo]

Originally Posted by ancalimon

I wonder what problems it causes

Related to this :

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=475

[daxb]

On A1200 040 3.1 and reqtools.library V39.3 rev2 there is not problem when I use ESC key to close a file requester. Was that the only issue with rev2?

[ancalimon]

Where are the font updates from in BB4?

I see that there are lots of different fonts in Amikit XE installation.

[Minuous]

@daxb:

As far as I recall, yes. But just because it may happen to work on your 3.1 does not mean it is not buggy or that it will work on 3.9.

@ancalimon:

The ones in BB4 are from the official Euro Update. I don't use AmiKit so don't know where his fonts are from.