>
> r>> If you bring up the preferences,
> r>> there's a box blob over the files menu choice.
> r>> Although, you could change colors and modify things ok.
> r>
> r> This on the other side shouldn't happen.
> r> Jody designed the prefs-requester to work with V41 classact
> r> and for 2.7 I only remove some minor things
> r> as well as localising it.
> r> Does the 2.6 prefs-requester work for you?

Ok, I don't have classact installed. I got the file off Aminet, and
there are two of them MUI and (something). Which should I install?

Hi!

> > r> Jody designed the prefs-requester to work with V41 classact
> > r> and for 2.7 I only remove some minor things
> > r> as well as localising it.
> > r> Does the 2.6 prefs-requester work for you?
>
> Ok, I don't have classact installed. I got the file off Aminet, and
> there are two of them MUI and (something). Which should I install?

Neither, classact is just the former name of what became Reaction
with OS 3.5, it's the system of classes like ListBrowser.gadget
and so on.
Since you already have 3.5 you have V44 versions of
the classes installed.
And otherwise 2.7 would have refused to start.

OS 3.9 has V45 versions of the components and OS4
has V52 versions.

Regards - Rudolph

Hi!

On 15-Feb-07, rudolph.riedel@... wrote:
r>> Also, does anyone else not have a vertical
r>> scroller in the command windows?
r>
r> That's not a bug, that's on purpose. :-)

   Oh; nevermind then. :-)

--
Jody Tierney
jodytierney@...
http://home.earthlink.net/~jodytierney

Well, that and a SquirrelSCSI prep disk. 8)

Having some problems with my A3000, so I took the opportunity to get
the A1200 out of storage and see if I could get it setup.

After putting in a "new" HD and my Blizzard 1240, I found to my
chagrin, that my original 3.0 install disk had errors and my 3.1
install disk was nowhere to be found. Geez.

Using my SquirrelSCSI disk, preped the HD, and used selfbooting DM2 to
get enough files to get the HD to bootup by itself, and then
installing fully from the 3.5 CD

Hi!

Looks like am again working too much...

Okay, it has been two weeks now again that we had to learn that
we just do not receive any messages from the Reaction
classes under 68k so the test versions I uploaded
almost are non functional.

This is probably because I was bending the rules a bit when
creating the GUI code, although following an example from the SDK.
And it seemingly only works on OS4 because of changes in
an early V50 version of layout.gadget.

Part of the problem is that window.class is not capable of openening
a window with a given size, even less so with earlier versions of it.
It's just not designed that way, the idea is that it should not matter
at all if a window opens a little bigger or smaller, this should be
left to the GUI system and not something the application has to worry
about.

Now we all know that DiskMaster2 is a multi-window application and
the position and the outer dimensions of the windows are important
for the complete window-layout.

To avoid this problem, DiskMaster2 currently is using an intuition
window
with a set of Reaction gadgets attached to it.

Under OS4 it is possible to open windows in a hidden state,
adjust their dimensions and position and then make them visible.
With 68k there is no such option which means that on startup
there is likely to be some visible jumping.

Before I even can start working on this conversion I have to release
a new version for OS4 though, I also fixed some other bugs in the
meantime...

Have fun - Rudolph

Hi!

I started to rewrite the complete message-handling.

http://kazong.privat.t-online.de/DiskMaster2.7_68k_test.lha

Be warned, this one only has very limited functionality so far.
But it should be enough to confirm that it starts to work
with the 68k classes.

Neither the menus or the keyboard do work yet.

My plan is to make it work on OS4 first and
then afterwards start to work around all the bugs
in the 68k classes - like double-clicks only work on
selected entries now.

Regards - Rudolph

On 11-Mar-07, rudolph.riedel@... wrote:

> Be warned, this one only has very limited functionality so far.
> But it should be enough to confirm that it starts to work
> with the 68k classes.

Hi Rudolph,

Well, this crashes the system spectacularly on my Amithlon system if I
run it from my usual DM script. Tried it from icon and without my prefs
and it gives me a 'Program failed (error #8000000A)' Suspend/Reboot
requester.

Tried increasing the stack, but no effect.

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

Hi!

> Well, this crashes the system spectacularly on my Amithlon system if I
> run it from my usual DM script. Tried it from icon and without my
> prefs and it gives me a 'Program failed (error #8000000A)'
> Suspend/Reboot requester.

That's odd. Of course I did test it on Amithlon before I uploaded it,
it's compiled with SAS-C on Amithlon.
I tried it again now and first downgraded my classes - no problem.
Then I tried to downgrade my Amithlon system some more
and killed it for now, won't boot anymore.

This is exactly what I was afraid of, I hope I can
bring it up again.

> Tried increasing the stack, but no effect.

DiskMaster2 increases it's stack in case it's set to low anyways.

Regards - Rudolph

On 11-Mar-07, rudolph.riedel@... wrote:

> That's odd. Of course I did test it on Amithlon before I uploaded
it...

I'll have a look later today to see if there's something obvious about
my setup, try to boot clean as possible as in days of yore!

> DiskMaster2 increases it's stack in case it's set to low anyways.

Yes, I thought it might. Thanks.

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

Hi!

I was able to restore my Amithlon system.
Although I have a NForce2 board the original CD still boots.

> > That's odd. Of course I did test it on Amithlon before I uploaded
> it...
>
> I'll have a look later today to see if there's something obvious about
> my setup, try to boot clean as possible as in days of yore!

I tried it now booted from CD, can't get any cleaner than that.
And it works, no crash at all.
Okay, "works" may still be a little far fetched but it's
basically useable.
At least that shows me that I am not wasting my time.

Have you tried to start it without prefs?
Like for example from the shell with "diskmaster2 xxx"?

Regards - Rudolph

On 11-Mar-07, rudolph.riedel@... wrote:

> I tried it now booted from CD, can't get any cleaner than that.

Hi Rudolph,

Guess I could try that, but right now I've got a very stripped-down S-S
with no user-startup, empty WBStartup.

I confess I never used the system when booted from CD.

Are you using the OS3.9 Update2 files?

C:SetPatch              44.38 (03/08/02)
C:LoadMonDrvs           45.3  (04/26/01)
Devs:AmigaOS ROM Update 44.57 (02/25/02)
Devs:NSDPatch.cfg       43.21 (02/27/01)

And here's my S:amithlon_patches directory:

patch1_right_ctrl.o
patch1_shifting.o
patch1_fpp.o
patch3_mouse.o
patch1_zip.o
patch2_vec.o
patch1_setconfig.o
patch1_timer.o
patch4_compemu_fpp.o

> Have you tried to start it without prefs?

Yes, that was my first try.

> Like for example from the shell with "diskmaster2 xxx"?

Well, not sure what you mean 'xxx' but yes, from shell, too.

Here's the S-S:
-------------------------------------------------------------
; $VER: Startup-Sequence 45.6 (25.10.2001)
; Startup-Sequence for AmigaOS 3.9 in AmigaOS XL emulation environment

Path >NIL: C:AmithlonC ADD

setconfig p96_accell 247               ; graphics corruption fix
setconfig p96_lowwdith 4096            ; bytes-per-row fix
setconfig p96_widthstep 1              ; for amithlon1_gfx

; Video @ 75 Hz
;
Setconfig >NIL: vesa_defaults 0
Setconfig >NIL: hsyncmin 31
Setconfig >NIL: hsyncmax 96
Setconfig >NIL: vsyncmin 50
Setconfig >NIL: vsyncmax 75
Setconfig >NIL: clockmax 100

Setconfig >NIL: cachesize 65536

Setconfig >NIL: rebootifchanged

AmithlonSetup

Stack 65536

Amithlon_key HaageKey >NIL:

;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SetPatch WAITFORVALIDATE

C:Version >NIL:

C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 45

FailAt 21

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE
Resident >NIL: C:SetEnv PURE REPLACE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: SYS:Rexx
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

C:LoadMonDrvs

SetEnv Language "english"
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:AddDataTypes REFRESH QUIET
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs
SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

SYS:System/REXXMast >NIL:

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

C:LoadWB

EndCLI >NIL:
-------------------------------------------------------------

Anyway, I'll try from the CD later tonight if I can.

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

I finally got tired of clicking file name, moving the mouse, clicking Delete in
the command window, and then pressing Enter to delete files in OS4 version.

Checked the manual, found the AddKeyCmd command, and put the following in my
configuration:

AddKeyCmd  Del, Delete %s

When I saved, relaunched, and tried it out on a piece of junk, the first press
of the Delete key highlighted the directory name in the window title bar, and
further presses of the Delete key deleted the directory name, letter by letter.

Is it pretty obvious what I am doing wrong?

Bart Mathias

Hi!

> I finally got tired of clicking file name, moving the mouse, clicking
> Delete in the command window, and then pressing Enter to delete files
> in OS4 version.
>
> Checked the manual, found the AddKeyCmd command, and put the following
> in my configuration:
> AddKeyCmd  Del, Delete %s
>
> When I saved, relaunched, and tried it out on a piece of junk, the
> first press of the Delete key highlighted the directory name in the
> window title bar, and further presses of the Delete key deleted the
> directory name, letter by letter.
>
> Is it pretty obvious what I am doing wrong?

Two things, at first you are likely to use the wrong key?
There is delete and there is back-space, looks like you are using
back-space
since the path's are activated with the cursor at the end and delete
won't remove any characters then.

And then my design around this is rather weak to put it friendly.
It's "del" for normal action and "DEL" for shift-action.

Check the supplied DM2 config in the archive for more examples.

Regards - Rudolph

Hello rudolph.riedel@...

On 05/06/2007, you wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> I finally got tired of clicking file name, moving the mouse, clicking
>> Delete in the command window, and then pressing Enter to delete files
>> in OS4 version.
>>
>> Checked the manual, found the AddKeyCmd command, and put the following
>> in my configuration:
>> AddKeyCmd  Del, Delete %s
>>
>> When I saved, relaunched, and tried it out on a piece of junk, the
>> first press of the Delete key highlighted the directory name in the
>> window title bar, and further presses of the Delete key deleted the
>> directory name, letter by letter.
>>
>> Is it pretty obvious what I am doing wrong?
>
> Two things, at first you are likely to use the wrong key?
> There is delete and there is back-space, looks like you are using
> back-space
> since the path's are activated with the cursor at the end and delete
> won't remove any characters then.

I'm using a key (under Insert) that says Delete on it.  My normal back-space
key is under F12, and reads "Back Space" on two lines.

I try to delete a file from my Data: directory.  I select the file and tap
Delete.  The D of Data: gets highlighted.  I tap again: "ata:" then again
"ta:"  Three more taps and it says ""

> And then my design around this is rather weak to put it friendly.
> It's "del" for normal action and "DEL" for shift-action.

I based my command:  AddKeyCmd  Delete, delete %s

on the one the following which came with DM2 (maybe I changed the colors):

AddCmd   Delete, 42, 24, Confirm "Really kick`em?" Yep! Nope!;Delete %s

so I thought "Delete %s" should work.  I'll try it with "del %s."

No, no different.

I just noticed that the Delete key will highlight the first letter of the
selected directory even if no files are selected, and then delete the
directory name, letter by letter.  Back Space also highlights the first
letter of the directory name, but repeated presses of the key have no
effect.

> Check the supplied DM2 config in the archive for more examples.

Thanks; I'll see if I can find it.

Bart Mathias

On 06-May-07, Bart Mathias wrote:

> I try to delete a file from my Data: directory.  I select the file
> and tap Delete.  The D of Data: gets highlighted.  I tap again:
> "ata:" then again "ta:"  Three more taps and it says ""

I think further down you got another clue. Actually *any* unqualified
key seems to first highlight the directory string, then subsequent
presses will enter that keystroke into the string gadget.

I think it's a feature for quick navigation via shell-like path-typing.

Is AddKeyCmd supposed to mean only *qualified* keys? (Like RAmiga-[key]
combo.) Hmmm... no, I have f1 f2, etc. working without qualifier.

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

On 07-May-07, Richard Mattsson wrote:

> Actually *any* unqualified key seems to first highlight the
> directory string, then subsequent presses will enter that
> keystroke into the string gadget.

Oops, sorry, posted before testing. Yes, this is true, but AddKeyCmd
entry for individual keys blocks the behavior as expected for that
particular key. Maybe 'Del' is a special case on the keyboard?

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

Hello Richard

On 05/07/2007, you wrote:

> On 06-May-07, Bart Mathias wrote:
>
>> I try to delete a file from my Data: directory.  I select the file
>> and tap Delete.  The D of Data: gets highlighted.  I tap again:
>> "ata:" then again "ta:"  Three more taps and it says ""
>
> I think further down you got another clue. Actually *any* unqualified
> key seems to first highlight the directory string, then subsequent
> presses will enter that keystroke into the string gadget.

What the problem turned out to be was that I was using "del" in the wrong
place!

I had tried

AddKeyCmd  Delete, delete %s

and

AddKeyCmd  Delete, del %s

but what was needed was

AddKeyCmd del,Delete %s

The Guide in fact says (if I could learn to read):

"Valid are printable keys as well as F1-F10, Help and *Del*." (emphasis
mine)

Bart Mathias

On 07-May-07, Bart Mathias wrote:

> What the problem turned out to be was that I was using "del" in the
> wrong place!

Hi Bart,

Glad you got it sorted out.

> but what was needed was

> AddKeyCmd del,Delete %s

Ah ha! Of course...

Interesting little puzzle, anyway. I learned something about keystoke
behavior!

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

On 08-May-07, Rudolph Riedel wrote:

> What strikes me as odd though is that your string-gadget is activated
> with the cursor in the first position.
> This is neither default or intended behaviour.

Hi Rudolph,

My system is doing that, too. I'll see what's doing it later if I find
the time.

--
Richard Mattsson - http://www.kiva.net/~mattsson/
Audio Video Art -- http://www.audiovideoart.com

Hello Rudolph

On 05/08/2007, you wrote:

> [...]
> What strikes me as odd though is that your string-gadget is activated with
> the cursor in the first position.
> This is neither default or intended behaviour.
> I wonder if this is due to some commodity or gadget-enhancing "hack" or if
> there is a setup in OS4 now which results in this.

Yes, I had no reason to notice it before, but on my machine hitting almost
any key has the effect of highlighting the first character in the title
bar, except Esc, Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Ctrl, the Amiga keys, 1 through 9
and Num Lock and Enter in the numeric keypad, Prt Scr/Sys Rq and
Pause/Break (I don't know anything these two keys do), Insert, Home, Page
Up, End, Page Down, F11 and F12.

I don't think it's a matter of a hack, but I could send you my start-up
sequence(s) if it helps.  It's probably something about AmigaOne OS4.

Bart Mathias

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5488&forum=9

I think Rudolph will be pleasantly surprised :) [see screenshot in the
last post].

pong!

Hi!

Well, I guess I should confirm at least that I am still out here.

Have to admit though that I haven't done anything productive in relation
to AmigaOS for months now.
Not that I am not interested in Amiga anymore, that's not it for sure.

But in these days of uncertanity I devoted what little time I had going
back to my roots and doing
some C64/DTV related hardware and software development .

Well, okay, frustration that I could not get the 68k version of 2.7 to
work against all the bugs
in the old Reaction classes add to it.

Hmm, I guess I should put myself together for at least the one bug
reported about 2.6.
Bottom-Border-Scroller-Dragging is a bit broken.

Have fun - Rudolph

VicePlus with support for C64DTV is out there on Aminet ;).

rudolph.riedel@... ha scritto:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Well, I guess I should confirm at least that I am still out here.
>
> Have to admit though that I haven't done anything productive in relation
> to AmigaOS for months now.
> Not that I am not interested in Amiga anymore, that's not it for sure.
>
> But in these days of uncertanity I devoted what little time I had going
> back to my roots and doing
> some C64/DTV related hardware and software development .
>
> Well, okay, frustration that I could not get the 68k version of 2.7 to
> work against all the bugs
> in the old Reaction classes add to it.
>
> Hmm, I guess I should put myself together for at least the one bug
> reported about 2.6.
> Bottom-Border-Scroller-Dragging is a bit broken.
>
> Have fun - Rudolph
>

> VicePlus with support for C64DTV is out there on Aminet ;).

That's nice to know but so far I was not crazy enough to go back to
C64/DTV software development. :-)

I am more into embedded development with Atmel's AVR controllers these
days.

I did my own version of the MMC2IEC hardware and for that I one I
adapted the software a little as well
as I modified a GPL bootloader to work with it.

More original was my "KeyboardTwister", a little ATTiny45 based gadget
to remap PS/2 scancodes.

Regards - Rudolph

I've found this blast from the past that not everybody may remember:

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/amiga/diskmaster.jpg

Happy 2008!

--- In DM2-Forum@yahoogroups.com, Fabrizio Bartoloni <lanch@...> wrote:
>
> I've found this blast from the past that not everybody may remember:
>
> http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/amiga/diskmaster.jpg
>
> Happy 2008!
>
Ha! Got a better one for you. My brothers room back in the early 90's.
Look on the wall. 8)

http://www.amiga.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=3467

Hi Andrew, damn! Now i'm envious :D.

Andrew ha scritto:
>
>
> --- In DM2-Forum@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DM2-Forum%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Fabrizio Bartoloni <lanch@...> wrote:
>>
>> I've found this blast from the past that not everybody may remember:
>>
>>
> http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/amiga/diskmaster.jpg
> <http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/amiga/diskmaster.jpg>
>>
>> Happy 2008!
>>
> Ha! Got a better one for you. My brothers room back in the early 90's.
> Look on the wall. 8)
>
> http://www.amiga.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=3467
> <http://www.amiga.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=3467>
>