Too much devices
Patrick Mortara
Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
1.
The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
one Icon. You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one
Icon. I'm using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
Can someone of you please help me?
2.
I've just added a new Syquest 270MB-Device to my system, but now I've a small
problem. If there's no Cartridge inside the new drive, the System does not
boot up and waits in the initialisation-screen until i insert a cartridge.
This problem has never appeared with my old (which is in fact a newer
Version than the 'new' drive) Syquest-drive.
The new drive (which causes this problem has Firmware version 2.05 on and
the old drive has firmware Version 3.14 on.
The jumpers 4 till 7 are equal. Jumpers 1-3 are different, because they set
the ID-Number for the devices.
Many thanx to anyone who can help me,
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Kira L. Brown
In message <Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
You can't be Wowbagger, then, because he is Infinitely Prolonged.
> 1.
> The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> one Icon. You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one
> Icon. I'm using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
> Can someone of you please help me?
You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, Zip, hard drive, apps, network
and printer. :-)
There are apps that do this and until recently I would have sent you
one of the free ones- but my hard drive took a pounding from an
errant Linux and, well, the rest is history. As is most of my data.
> 2.
> I've just added a new Syquest 270MB-Device to my system, but now I've a small
> problem. If there's no Cartridge inside the new drive, the System does not
> boot up and waits in the initialisation-screen until i insert a cartridge.
Some people have reported this.
kira.
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Thomas Rankin
>
> You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, Zip, hard drive, apps, network
> and printer. :-)
>
and 3 printers (tho I only load Printers just B4 I feel like Printing.
:-p
Alan Wrigley
In message <2b13b5448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>
Kira L. Brown <kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
> Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
>
> You can't be Wowbagger, then, because he is Infinitely Prolonged.
>
> > 1.
> > The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> > I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> > one Icon. You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one
> > Icon. I'm using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
> > Can someone of you please help me?
>
> You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, Zip, hard drive, apps, network
> and printer. :-)
You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, 4 HDs, floppy, Apps, FontFS, 2
network mounts, Socketeer, plus occasionally a printer, occasionally a
Zip, and DeltaNet when I'm serving pages to the PC.
Alan
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Alan Wrigley <al...@cybervillage.co.uk> wrote:
Overloaded? Overloaded!
When I were a lad we 'ad 8 CDs, 27 HDs, 3 Apps folders and 14 shared discs.
Tell that to kids today and they won't believe you!
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Kira L. Brown
> In message <2b13b5448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>
> Kira L. Brown <kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, Zip, hard drive, apps, network
> > and printer. :-)
>
> You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, 4 HDs, floppy, Apps, FontFS, 2
> network mounts, Socketeer, plus occasionally a printer, occasionally a
> Zip, and DeltaNet when I'm serving pages to the PC.
I forgot to mention the NFS mounts (three of them), the copy of
Zap (ever present), Newsbase (serving news and mail to the PalmPilot
and the PC), WebServe, CSD Tool, MemNow, or the clock.
When I wrote the above, I didn't have these (sob).
They work now :-)
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Mal McClenaghan
In article <Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>,
Patrick Mortara <URL:mailto:fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
<snippety snip snip>
Don't know, sorry.
> 2.
> I've just added a new Syquest 270MB-Device to
> my system, but now I've a small problem. If
> there's no Cartridge inside the new drive,
> the System does not boot up and waits in the
> initialisation-screen until i insert a cartridge.
<snippety snip snip>
I find that my 270 SyQ will do the same unless
the spin-up flags are set to:
Auto spin-up / on
Load media on spin-up / on
(Cumana SCSI II)
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mal
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Thomas Rankin
>
> I forgot to mention the NFS mounts (three of them), the copy of
> Zap (ever present), Newsbase (serving news and mail to the PalmPilot
> and the PC), WebServe, CSD Tool, MemNow, or the clock.
>
and We Werent talking about applications
I personally also have 3-5 TinyDirs loaded on bootup normally depending
on
what I'm working on.
Who cares tho?
Stuart Bell
In article <2b13b5448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>,
> <Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
> Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> > 2. I've just added a new Syquest 270MB-Device to my system, but now
> > I've a small problem. If there's no Cartridge inside the new drive,
> > the System does not boot up and waits in the initialisation-screen
> > until i insert a cartridge.
> Some people have reported this.
What SCSI card are you using to drive the Syquest? My Eesox card simply
reports an empty drive- it even changes the icon appropriately! ISTR that
some other SCSI cards have variables that can be set to overcome the
problem - eg something like 'max boot wait' or similar.
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Kira L. Brown
In message <357FDBE4...@nortel.co.uk>
Thomas Rankin <T.Ra...@nortel.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to mention the NFS mounts (three of them), the copy of
> > Zap (ever present), Newsbase (serving news and mail to the PalmPilot
> > and the PC), WebServe, CSD Tool, MemNow, or the clock.
> >
> You almost never have 3 nfs mounts
I always have now... mind you, NFS over a serial line is sloooow.
> and We Werent talking about applications
Alan was.
> I personally also have 3-5 TinyDirs loaded on bootup normally depending
> on what I'm working on.
Tinydirs? Uurgh! Pinboard is much nicer.
> Who cares tho?
Me, when I'm showing off :-)
kira.
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Alan Wrigley
In message <fc9915448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>
Kira L. Brown <kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <357FDBE4...@nortel.co.uk>
> Thomas Rankin <T.Ra...@nortel.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I forgot to mention the NFS mounts (three of them), the copy of
> > > Zap (ever present), Newsbase (serving news and mail to the PalmPilot
> > > and the PC), WebServe, CSD Tool, MemNow, or the clock.
> > >
> > You almost never have 3 nfs mounts
>
> I always have now... mind you, NFS over a serial line is sloooow.
>
> > and We Werent talking about applications
>
> Alan was.
I was talking purely about icons on the left-hand side of my icon bar,
which was what the thread was originally about.
Now if we're going to include the right-hand side as well....
Martin Tillman
In message
<Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
Right, in an effort to keep on topic...
[snip]
> The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> one Icon.
Indeedy.
> You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one Icon. I'm
> using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
IMHO also.
> Can someone of you please help me?
There is (was) only one app that ever did this that I found - Storage.
It's not being developed anymore AFAIK, later versions didn't work with my
SCSI card, and certainly won't work with BDFS from Claress :-(((
So, no, there isn't a solution apart from Multidrive, which I use too.
> 2. I've just added a new Syquest 270MB-Device to my system, but now I've
> a small problem. If there's no Cartridge inside the new drive, the System
> does not boot up and waits in the initialisation-screen until i insert a
> cartridge.
Same with my EZ135 :-( (Well, something or other time-outs eventually and
the m/c continues booting).
And I can't change carts without getting (irrelevant disc errors).
However, Storage did suppress those...
> Many thanx to anyone who can help me,
Well, that's certainly not me, eh? But we could form a self-pity group if
you like ;-)
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In message <fc9915448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>
Kira L. Brown <kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tinydirs? Uurgh! Pinboard is much nicer.
Using pinboard the directory icons get lost under other windows. Tinydirs
may not look as pretty, but you can always bring the icon bar to the front
to get at the directory you want.
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Paul Vigay
In article <c2537c5448%al...@cybervillage.co.uk>, Alan Wrigley
<URL:mailto:al...@cybervillage.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You think that's overloaded? I've got CD, 4 HDs, floppy, Apps, FontFS, 2
> network mounts, Socketeer, plus occasionally a printer, occasionally a
> Zip, and DeltaNet when I'm serving pages to the PC.
Pagh! You think that's cluttered! I have a CD, four HDs, floppy, Apps,
ShareFS, Omniclient (with up to 15 mounts), Menon and a printer driver with 8
printers installed.
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In article <4854B7A1C6%mtil...@argonet.co.uk>, Martin Tillman
<URL:mailto:mtil...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <Pine.A32.3.91.980611...@kozlowski.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
> Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
> Right, in an effort to keep on topic...
>
> [snip]
> > The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> > I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> > one Icon.
>
> Indeedy.
>
> > You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one Icon. I'm
> > using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
>
> IMHO also.
>
> > Can someone of you please help me?
>
> There is (was) only one app that ever did this that I found - Storage.
> It's not being developed anymore AFAIK, later versions didn't work with my
> SCSI card, and certainly won't work with BDFS from Claress :-(((
>
> So, no, there isn't a solution apart from Multidrive, which I use too.
>
>
SCSI icons in ONE icon.
nico
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Stuart Bell
In article <ant12175...@t669454.tip.nl>,
Nico ter Haar <nico.t...@tip.nl> wrote:
> >
> Most expensive solution to buy a Cumana SCSI card, it will stack all
> SCSI icons in ONE icon.
No. Most expensive solution is to buy two Cumana SCSI cards. . . . ;-)
Martin Tillman
In message <ant12175...@t669454.tip.nl>
Nico ter Haar <nico.t...@tip.nl> wrote:
[snip]
> > So, no, there isn't a solution apart from Multidrive, which I use too.
> Most expensive solution to buy a Cumana SCSI card, it will stack all SCSI
> icons in ONE icon.
And the most useless for those without SCSI disks.
And what about my 3 BDFS partitions, ADFS::4, Apps, floppy, CD, RAM disk,
MemFS disk, IDE SyQuest, etc.??
Glyn Royds
In message <0869d5448%al...@cybervillage.co.uk>
Alan Wrigley <al...@cybervillage.co.uk> wrote:
>I was talking purely about icons on the left-hand side of my icon bar,
>which was what the thread was originally about.
And, more precisely, about the number of drive icons.
I found a lovely app many, many years ago called !Kysmet written
by Tracy of the SICK crew. Unfortunately the site that the most
recent version came from seems to have vanished (it was a *LONG*
time ago now) but I've spk'd up the version I'm using (it still
has all its help files, etc..) and you can find it at:
<URL:ftp://xavier.bangor.ac.uk/pub/pdapps/kysmet.zip>
What does it do?
Well, as well as a Menon replacement, it allows you to create a
stack of icons for various drives / fs's / directories / whatever
which climbs up an ibar-following window just above the left edge
of the ibar.
>Now if we're going to include the right-hand side as well....
Nar! If that's what you want then get yourself an Apple and only
have one application icon visible at once ;-)
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Patrick Mortara
About Left hand iconbar:
I've just found another solution: !Director. Try it, it's good. And if you
unplug your SCSIFiler, your iconbar gets emty and you still hav control over
your devices.
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Mark Scholes
Patrick Mortara wrote:
>
> Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
> The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> Icon. I'm using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
>
whould it be possible to use smaller icons, eg the HD icon is about
twice the width of the CD icon, is there a way of using smaller HD,
SCSI, FD etc icons so they take up less space? I tried loading new icons
into the spritepool but it didn't work, I assume the width is hard coded
into some module, has anyone managed to change it?
Mark Scholes
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Mark Scholes <m.f.s...@REMOVETHISBITwarwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> Not an answer but a suggestion to any knowledgable people out there,
> whould it be possible to use smaller icons, eg the HD icon is about
> twice the width of the CD icon [...]
Another thing to remeber is that overly long disk names can unnecessarily
clutter the IconBar.
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Nico ter Haar
In article <1d9abb5448%pe...@vincefam.demon.co.uk>, Peter Vincent
of just launching apps.
I know mine does :-(
nico
PS: look for QTree on my webpages, needs toolbox & 40k to run
Martin Tillman
In message <b84a5c5548%fxer...@rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> About Left hand iconbar:
> I've just found another solution: !Director. Try it, it's good. And if
> you unplug your SCSIFiler, your iconbar gets emty and you still hav
> control over your devices.
Done that. But it's not full control, is it?
How about 'Free', 'Format' etc?
Patrick Mortara
In message <485586088A%mtil...@argonet.co.uk>
Martin Tillman <mtil...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > About Left hand iconbar:
>
> > I've just found another solution: !Director. Try it, it's good. And if
> > you unplug your SCSIFiler, your iconbar gets emty and you still hav
> > control over your devices.
>
> Done that. But it's not full control, is it?
> How about 'Free', 'Format' etc?
Yes, you're right. But 'Free' works fine. The only problem I have is
'Format','Verify' and 'Name Disc' (I have a German RiscOS version, it could
be that I've translated the Names wrong, sorry). I've contacted the Author
about this and i'm still searching for a solution to that problem because i
still thing that Director is the best solution, because it's rather easy
to configure your desktop as you want it. If you want, I could inform you
if it works.
cu,
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> There are apps that do this and until recently I would have sent you
> one of the free ones- but my hard drive took a pounding from an
> errant Linux and, well, the rest is history. As is most of my data.
So Linux isn't as faul proof as many ppl tends us to believe?
hmmm... think i'm gonna stick to Risc OS for awhile even though it's
less "powerfull" :)
CU
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In article <358263...@REMOVETHISBITwarwick.ac.uk>, Mark Scholes
<URL:mailto:m.f.s...@REMOVETHISBITwarwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> Patrick Mortara wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody, I've just two short questions.
> > 1.
> > The left hand of my Iconbar gets overloaded (3 HD,1 FD,1 Resource). Now
> > I'am searching for a programm which replaces the 5 big device Icon with
> > one Icon. You should have easy access to all the devices by just this one
> > Icon. I'm using !Multidrive for a while but this isn't a good solution IMHO.
> > Can someone of you please help me?
> >
> whould it be possible to use smaller icons, eg the HD icon is about
> SCSI, FD etc icons so they take up less space? I tried loading new icons
> into the spritepool but it didn't work, I assume the width is hard coded
> into some module, has anyone managed to change it?
>
> Mark Scholes
I found that the SCSI/CDFS icons need to be loaded from Boot:Tasks all
others were done in Boot:Predek.
If you use smaller icons you will also need smaller names !
nico
Kira L. Brown
In message <ant14150...@year0332.innet.be>
Manuel Timmers <star...@innet.be> wrote:
> In article <2b13b5448%kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk>, Kira L. Brown
> <URL:mailto:kbr...@neutralino.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > There are apps that do this and until recently I would have sent you
> > one of the free ones- but my hard drive took a pounding from an
> > errant Linux and, well, the rest is history. As is most of my data.
>
> So Linux isn't as faul proof as many ppl tends us to believe?
> hmmm... think i'm gonna stick to Risc OS for awhile even though it's
> less "powerfull" :)
It's very foolproof. It's just that fools using it tend to destroy
their data.
What caused my problems was a loose SIMM. Wobble, crash, hard drive
go byebye. Sigh.
(back up in record time) kira.
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Jamie Michael Temple
[snip... lots of stuff about director & disc icons.]
I have just put a small (5k) ArcFS archive on my website containing a quick
hack, working name : !MiniDisc.
See http://www.parsed-out.demon.co.uk/minidisc.arc
This is a Director app which replaces any /filecore/ drive icons with a
single one.
Existing problems :
1) No documentation
2) No interactive floppy formatting
3) No 'Verify' or 'Share'
Let me know if you like it (It /really/ seems 2 neaten up the icon bar).
I have not included any RMKill's in the startup as yet, as who knows what
FSN's you're all using. I may put in a bit of auto-detection 2 RMKill any
xxxFiler modules if requested.
I expect to round it off this weekend sometime.
Later...
Jamie.
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Patrick Mortara
In message <4857D9C441%Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk>
Jamie Michael Temple <Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk> wrote:
> [snip... lots of stuff about director & disc icons.]
>
> I have just put a small (5k) ArcFS archive on my website containing a quick
> hack, working name : !MiniDisc.
>
> See http://www.parsed-out.demon.co.uk/minidisc.arc
>
> This is a Director app which replaces any /filecore/ drive icons with a
> single one.
Why don't you just use Director? It can do exactly the same without BASIC
progs. Or have I understood you wrong (sorry then)? Can you
>
> Existing problems :
>
> 1) No documentation
> 2) No interactive floppy formatting
> 3) No 'Verify' or 'Share'
Your Basic-program is a good idea. You could open all the Filer-Windows
(Format, Verify a.s.o.) and execute the commands as a own wimptask.
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In message <4857D9C441%Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk>
Jamie Michael Temple <Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk> wrote:
> [snip... lots of stuff about director & disc icons.]
> I have just put a small (5k) ArcFS archive on my website containing a
> quick hack, working name : !MiniDisc.
Ah, good :-)
[snip]
> Let me know if you like it (It /really/ seems 2 neaten up the icon bar).
I like it :-)
> I have not included any RMKill's in the startup as yet,
I do that myself (but I'd rather not). However, that's not to great when
<Shift>booting. Storage managed to kill disk icons and restore them when
quit...
> as who knows what FSN's you're all using. I may put in a bit of
> auto-detection 2 RMKill any xxxFiler modules if requested.
Good. And do include ResourceFS too.
> I expect to round it off this weekend sometime.
Well, include some serious help please! It doesn't work out of the box,
and in fact all I've managed to do is to get it to *replace* one of
Director's menus (I'd much rather add it to an existing menu) by including
'-menu "Dynamic:JTUtils -FCList"' in the default menu file.
It would also be very nice if you could also navigate the disk from this
menu. And what about the disk's name rather than the FS name?
Jamie Michael Temple
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Martin Tillman <mtil...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <4857D9C441%Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk>
> Jamie Michael Temple <Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk> wrote:
>
> > [snip... lots of stuff about director & disc icons.]
>
> > I have just put a small (5k) ArcFS archive on my website containing a
> > quick hack, working name : !MiniDisc.
>
> Ah, good :-)
>
> [snip]
> > Let me know if you like it (It /really/ seems 2 neaten up the icon bar).
>
> I like it :-)
Thanks.
>
> > I have not included any RMKill's in the startup as yet,
>
> I do that myself (but I'd rather not). However, that's not to great when
> <Shift>booting. Storage managed to kill disk icons and restore them when
> quit...
Is 'Storage' a similar program? I'm having trouble putting the icons back,
no-matter if I Unplug or RMKill them. Where can I find this prog, as I'd
like 2 do a little investigating. - I've no PRM's :-(
>
> > as who knows what FSN's you're all using. I may put in a bit of
> > auto-detection 2 RMKill any xxxFiler modules if requested.
>
> Good. And do include ResourceFS too.
I'll add a switch 2 allow this if you like, I'm not keen on it as a default
for 2 reasons :
1) This thread started out as 'Too many icons & loss of 'format' etc...',
ResourceFS only has an 'Open $' menu.
2) I like my current 'Select - Open', 'Adjust - Director path' setup.
>
> > I expect to round it off this weekend sometime.
>
> Well, include some serious help please!
Done. My apologies for the lack before, but it was announced as a 'quick
hack'. :-)
> It doesn't work out of the box, and in fact all I've managed to do is to
> get it to *replace* one of Director's menus (I'd much rather add it to an
> existing menu) by including '-menu "Dynamic:JTUtils -FCList"' in the
> default menu file.
Should now work OK. I have created it as a 'stand-alone' app, rather than
as a plugin for my 'JTUtils' program. (... coming soon!)
>
> It would also be very nice if you could also navigate the disk from this
> menu. And what about the disk's name rather than the FS name?
Done, Done.
>
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Patrick Mortara <fxer...@uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> In message <4857D9C441%Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk>
> Jamie Michael Temple <Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk> wrote:
>
> > [snip... lots of stuff about director & disc icons.]
> >
> > I have just put a small (5k) ArcFS archive on my website containing a quick
> > hack, working name : !MiniDisc.
> >
> > This is a Director app which replaces any /filecore/ drive icons with a
> > single one.
>
> Why don't you just use Director? It can do exactly the same without BASIC
> progs. Or have I understood you wrong (sorry then)? Can you
It /does/ use Director for icons, menus & filters. I have simply written a
dynamic menu of all drives on that icon, & added a filer-style menu for
'name-disc', 'dismount', 'free'. (more 2 come here.)
> Your Basic-program is a good idea. You could open all the Filer-Windows
> (Format, Verify a.s.o.) and execute the commands as a own wimptask.
>
Thanks.
Some of the filer operations are causing me problems @ the moment though.
>
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Jamie Michael Temple <Newsr...@parsed-out.demon.com.uk> wrote:
> In message <4858BE3F33%mtil...@argonet.co.uk>
> Martin Tillman <mtil...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> > > I have not included any RMKill's in the startup as yet,
> > I do that myself (but I'd rather not). However, that's not to great
> > when <Shift>booting. Storage managed to kill disk icons and restore
> > them when quit...
> Is 'Storage' a similar program?
Weellll....
It performs a similar function.
> I'm having trouble putting the icons back, no-matter if I Unplug or
> RMKill them. Where can I find this prog, as I'd like 2 do a little
> investigating. - I've no PRM's :-(
<http://www.bsdman.demon.co.uk> is the last address I had. If not, it's
available off my HD.
> > > as who knows what FSN's you're all using. I may put in a bit of
> > > auto-detection 2 RMKill any xxxFiler modules if requested.
> > Good. And do include ResourceFS too.
> I'll add a switch 2 allow this if you like,
I do, I do ;-)
> I'm not keen on it as a default
Awww :-(
> for 2 reasons :
> 1) This thread started out as 'Too many icons & loss of 'format'
> etc...',
> ResourceFS only has an 'Open $' menu.
So, it falls into the 'too many icons then' :-). As does CDFS, BTW ;-)
> 2) I like my current 'Select - Open', 'Adjust - Director path' setup.
OK
> > Well, include some serious help please!
> Done. My apologies for the lack before, but it was announced as a 'quick
> hack'. :-)
Indeed - I was just indicating my level of difficulty in the
setting-up-Director department!
> > It doesn't work out of the box, and in fact all I've managed to do is
> > to get it to *replace* one of Director's menus (I'd much rather add it
> > to an existing menu) by including '-menu "Dynamic:JTUtils -FCList"' in
> > the default menu file.
> Should now work OK. I have created it as a 'stand-alone' app, rather
> than as a plugin for my 'JTUtils' program. (... coming soon!)
Excellent!
> > It would also be very nice if you could also navigate the disk from
> > this menu. And what about the disk's name rather than the FS name?
> Done, Done.
Even more excellent!!
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