18 February 2015, 20:52 | #1 |
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Needed: A simple commodity that deletes files on workbench when you press the DEL key
Hi, I am looking for a simple commodity that deletes/or prompts for deletion the current workbench selected files when pressing the DELETE key.
This is for an unexpanded A500 with AmigaOS 3.1. There are various solutions that I know of, but they require AmigaOS 3.9 or MCP, which are out of the question on this configuration. I would apreciate any help on this. |
18 February 2015, 21:42 | #2 |
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http://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/ClipAid for instance.
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19 February 2015, 01:23 | #3 |
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Thanks for the reply but it does not work as intended:
1.It requires you to press the ctrl & alt key + the key you select. So I cannot simply use just the DELETE key 2.Anyway, when set to work, I get a "stack overflow" error on a clean 3.1 install. Any other solutions are welcomed |
19 February 2015, 12:09 | #4 |
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I don`t know but maybe FKey is able doing this?
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19 February 2015, 13:30 | #5 |
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I use Dopus5 with the DEL key configured for delete. Very handy.
Amiga was always a mouse driven OS, but recently I am getting used to keyboard short cuts |
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25 February 2015, 14:33 | #7 |
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powerwb has that function too , but I suppose that's out of question for a plain A500 as well....
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25 February 2015, 16:18 | #8 |
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It needs MUI. I do use it on my A500 with steroids; on 3.9 it's partly broken (window gadgets at least).
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ReKeyIt needs MUI for Preferences and can only assign alphanumeric keys. No function keys like Del , Help, Fn
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It doesnt require MUI (but it can use it if present). The thing is that it still doesnt work as intended: You can only configure the delete function with the AMIGA key + a single alphanumeric character, but you just cannot simply use the DELETE key |
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I'd never recommend anything that required the abomination known as MUI :-O , it can use BGUI or gtlayout instead.
You could perhaps set up a keymap to translate DEL key to eg. Amiga-D, but that would interfere with normal use of the DEL key for other purposes. |
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Yep, it seems this simple delete commodity has been harder to find than anticipated
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You "just" need to find/ask a nice programmer who write such a tool. I guess an average skilled or beginner would be able doing it.
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Here you are. It is not a commodity. Run it once to enable, run it again to disable.
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26 February 2015, 16:39 | #17 |
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Great support Thomas!
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@thomas
Thank you very much. The program works but has a bug. UPDATE: I run it and tried to delete a folder, but when the requester popped up, I cancelled the requester (so far so good). Afterwards, the mouse worked but the mouse events were somehow not properly acknowledged by workbench (it is a clean 3.1 system on WinUAE that I am using for testing). I mean that windows can be moved, gadgets can be pressed, but gadgets & icons do not activate. Last edited by gulliver; 26 February 2015 at 17:38. |
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