Roadie - A little helper for Roadshow

[indigolemon]

Version 1.3.9 is attached to this post and in the queue for Aminet. Fixes bug where Roadie wouldn't start unless RexxMast was running.

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Hi all, I've released version 1.3.8 (it's currently in the upload queue for Aminet), but wanted to get it on here as well.

I discovered a bug in older versions that arrived via the library I'd used to handle ARexx, which ultimately led to system instability and crashes. It took a while to figure out what was going on (big thanks to @Daedalus for his help here).

That whole section is now completely rewritten, and I'm pleased to say the issue is gone (as is the library I was using ).

v1.3.8 is attached to this post, I'd recommend updating ASAP if you are using v1.3.7 or lower.

For anyone unfamiliar with Roadie, I've included a brief overview of it below:

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This is a small commodity designed as a companion for Roadshow, the TCP/IP stackby Olaf Barthel. Note that I am in no way affiliated with Olaf or Roadshow! So if you have issues relating to *this* piece of software please give me a shout!

Run Commands:
- Go Online (if you're not already)
- Go Offline (if you're not already)
- Show Net Status (an overview of current Local IP|Gateway|DNS)
- Get Net Status (information on your current networking with Roadshow)
- Ping a given IP/Host (by default uses Googles main DNS server)

Edit Configuration files (Please see notice below!):
- Interface files
- Nameservers (DNS)
- Default Gateway (routing)

Also you can:
- Quit (run away!)

ARexx Commands (Default port is ROADIE)
- ONLINE [ Go Online ]
- OFFLINE [ Go Offline ]
- SHOW [ Show the main Roadie interface ]

The Icon has four optional tooltypes:
- CX_POPUP=YES|NO [ Defaults to YES if not set ]
- CX_POPKEY=ctrl lcommand help [ this can be changed by the user ]
- AREXXPORT=ROADIE [ this can be changed by the user ]
- AUTOCONNECT=YES|NO [ Defaults to NO if not set ]
- LESSVERBOSE=YES|NO [ Defaults to NO if not set ]

The following ENV variable is set:
- RoadshowOnline [ Reads 'Online' or 'Offline' ]

Roadie can also talk to the Ranchero notification system if it's installed

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* IMPORTANT NOTICE *
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- Editing the configuration files will overwrite them with the data
you have entered!
- I have not included all fields in the editing windows, so if you have
advanced settings not shown they won't be saved!
- I strongly suggest backing up the following files before editing the
configuration with this software:
- DEVS:NetInterfaces/#?
- DEVS:Internet/name_resolution
- DEVS:Internet/routes

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Requirements:
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- An Amiga with
* KS2.0+ [ It uses GadTools, sorry ]
* An 020+ [ I'm not 100% sure why, I hope to get it working on 000 ]

- Roadshow TCP/IP Stack Installed [ Well Obviously ]

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Launching the App:
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A simple double click should do it, I'm using GadTools and have attempted
to keep it self contained.

On startup it performs two checks:

1 - Does C:GetNetStatus exist (as a way to see if Roadshow is installed).
If it can't find this command, Roadie will quit

2 - The subversion number of the ping command. If it is 11 (as in 4.11) it won't allow you to utilise ping. This is due to a known bug in that version of ping that causes hard lockups - if you get a message about this there are updated versions of Roadshow available

[klx300r]

@ indigolemon


very useful thanks do you have a PayPal address to accept donations

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by klx300r

very useful thanks do you have a PayPal address to accept donations

That's very kind of you, but I'm more than happy for this to be out there for free I wrote it for myself, both to use and to allow me to learn about programming for Amiga.

If other people find it useful that's thanks enough

[klx300r]

@ indigolemon


This is why the Amiga community was and still is the best

[wiz12]

This is a very useful tool to have, thanks for creating it indigolemon.

[Tarzin]

Thanks a lot for this tool!
It's very usefull

Feel free to contact me if one day Roadie become localised, I'll translate it to french.

[Jpor]

Thanks

Use Roadie a lot. Great work and many thanks for sharing this

[indigolemon]

Version 1.3.9 is attached to the first post and in the queue for Aminet, only a small change from 1.3.8

Notes:
- Fixes bug where Roadie wouldn't start unless RexxMast was running.

[Silverstreak]

Looking forward to trying this out, thanks

[Ferry]

Thanks a lot, very useful.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Jpor]

Already using the latest version. Works well. Thanks for the effort. Most appreciated.

[mateusz_s]

Hi, can I ask how the internet status is implemented?
Some time ago i made myself a commodity that could run a command in some time-cycle so I run a ping vommand every 8 second and updated the env variable.
I want to ask if Roadie works similar? I wasn sure IC my solution was ok. Maybe its to 'heavy' to the system and maybe Roadie does it in better way?

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by mateusz_s

Hi, can I ask how the internet status is implemented?
Some time ago i made myself a commodity that could run a command in some time-cycle so I run a ping vommand every 8 second and updated the env variable.
I want to ask if Roadie works similar? I wasn sure IC my solution was ok. Maybe its to 'heavy' to the system and maybe Roadie does it in better way?

I'm possibly cheating, as I'm only dealing with Roadshow. When using it, if you're not online you'll have an IP of 0.0.0.0, so I'm just checking for that.

Here's the relevant bit of code (I'm using Blitz Basic):

Statement GetOnlineStatus{}

  If TCPOpen
    IPAddress.l = TCPGetOwnHostIP
    FoundIP.s = TCPGetIPStr$(IPAddress)
    If FoundIP <> CurrentIP
      If FoundIP <> "0.0.0.0"
        online = True
        CurrentIP = FoundIP
      Else
        online = False
        CurrentIP = FoundIP
      End If
    End If
  End If
  TCPClose

End Statement

This statement is called once each time round the main event loop in the program.