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Re: Argument for the shell and rexx script

Posted on: 4/6 15:36 #1

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Quote:

skynet wrote:

To clarify, it's in the requestchoice section after "Trash / Delete?" to replace "place in the trash or erase?"

With: "Place in the trash or erase"

Yes, excactly


.key FILE/A 

Setenv choice `RequestChoice "Trash / Delete?" "About to delete*n<FILE>*nPlace in the trash or erase?" "place in the trash|erase|Cancel"`

.key must always be the first statement in the script. Unpredictable results happen if it is placed elsewhere.

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thomas

Re: Argument for the shell and rexx script

Posted on: 4/5 15:53 #2

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Quote:

skynet wrote:

What I'd like now is to be able to replace "Place in the trash or erase?"

with "Place [the name of the item to delete] in the trash or erase?"

To be more specific about the item being deleted.

You can use the same substitution as you use in the Move and Delete commands. Just use <FILE> where you want to see the file name.

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thomas

Re: Argument for the shell and rexx script

Posted on: 4/3 11:02 #3

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The syntax for DOS windows is CON:x/y/w/h/title/AUTO/CLOSE/WAIT

see also https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaDOS_Device_Input_and_Output#CON:

/AUTO opens the window only if there is any output.
/CLOSE adds a close gadget to the window
The combination of /AUTO/CLOSE allows the user to close the window at any time. It will open again when there is more output.
/WAIT waits at the end of the script until the user closes the window. Without /WAIT the window disappears immediately when the script ends.

There is no time option. You can only trick it. Which means you can remove /WAIT from the window spec and add a wait instruction to the end of your script.

In the same way x/y/w/h are always absolute coordinates. There is no way to open the window relative to the screen size. All you can do is to adjust the coordinates to your preferred screen size.

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thomas

Re: Writing Tool Types in Arexx

Posted on: 2025/7/23 7:42 #4

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@daveyw

This example actually is a bad one. It completely ignores the file format and does a textual search in the file contents. It neither considers future format changes nor custom file formats like PNG icons.

With this method you could probably change an existing tooltype if you maintain the length field and alignment. Or even insert a new one behind or in front of an existing one. But you cannot add a new tooltype without knowing of one which already exists.

The only proper way to access icon data is through icon.library. Unfortunately it does not have an ARexx interface, so you won't get around using an external helper. Either a library or a shell command.

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thomas

Re: Running Status from an arexx script

Posted on: 2025/4/4 20:00 #5

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There are three 'd' in your 'adddress' command.

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thomas

Re: SMBFS / SMBMOUNTER Bug

Posted on: 2022/2/24 10:47 #6

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@rjd324

Quote:

If I also have a VNC window open to the same remote machine and then merely move the mouse cursor, the copying comes back to life.

This sounds like the remote machine has gone into some kind of standby which stops network traffic. By waking it up the network traffic is resumed.

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thomas

Re: MouseBlanker

Posted on: 2021/9/23 12:53 #7

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Quote:

turn off immediate pointer blank once i press a key

That's the only purpose of the program. Why do you run it if you want to turn it off?

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Re: Bug in 3.2?

Posted on: 2021/6/30 6:33 #8

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@Nuder_Try
Quote:

Expected (3.1) behavior:
A dialog window appears asking for a retry, canceling from that allows the script to continue.

That's not true. A requester only appears if you try to access a non-existing assign.

For a misspelled assign command you get an error message in the console window and a failure return code (20). The script then ends or continues depending on the current FailAt value.

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thomas

Re: Library communication port

Posted on: 2021/3/11 12:24 #9

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You could add private volume fields to your library base. The mixer would write the new volume values into these fields and the next time an AHI program issues a sound command the driver can check the volume fields and insert new volume commands into the command stream if needed.

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thomas

Re: Library communication port

Posted on: 2021/3/11 10:16 #10

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@geennaam
Quote:

I have a library which can be opened by one program only because it gains exclusive access over hardware.

You would normally not implement this via OpenLibrary/CloseLibrary.

You would rather allow the library to be opened by everybody. The library would have a gain_access and a release_access function. The gain_access function grants exclusive access for the first caller and fails for any successive caller until the first caller calls release_access.

For those callers where gain_access fails it could have a third function to supply data to the first caller.

How you implement this internally is up to you. For example the gain_access function could spawn a background process which listens to a message port. The supply_data function would then send the data to the port.

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thomas

Re: AmigaOS 4.1 on WinUAE

Posted on: 2020/9/22 9:01 #11

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@tekmage

Quote:

At that point I was able to ping the WinUAE gateway but not the DNS IP's.

WinUAE's built-in NAT router does not supprt ICMP. This means that Ping, Traceroute and similar utilities won't work.

But normal network traffic should work. So if your laptop is connected to the internet just try to open https://www.google.com in a web browser. Or http://www.amiga-news.de if SSL is not working yet.

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thomas

Re: Getting into ZIP JAR files?

Posted on: 2020/8/19 14:54 #12

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RP9 ist not JAR. Both JAR and RP9 are ZIP.

A JAR is a ZIP containing Java classes.
A RP9 is a ZIP which contains files used for emulation.

http://www.retroplatform.com/kb/15-122

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thomas

Re: How to use Amiga4000T OS3.9 with no startup reboots

Posted on: 2020/7/30 7:49 #13

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I think that Cloanto's 3.X ROM would remove the need for a reset to run OS 3.9.

https://www.vesalia.de/e_kickstart.htm

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thomas

Re: Window class, gadgets and blitting

Posted on: 2020/6/3 7:43 #14

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You can trigger GM_RENDER when needed. Either use RefreshGList or DoMethod.

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thomas

Re: how hide empty console output of C:IconX

Posted on: 2019/4/29 20:52 #15

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@kas1e

Quote:

But when i run it from workbench, then while it all runs fine too, it also bring me some empty window from IconX, which i want to hide.

1) you don't need the script bit if you use IconX

2) add WINDOW=NIL: to the tool types.

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thomas

Re: NAS (with RAID capabilities)

Posted on: 2019/1/4 9:07 #16

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I think what you are looking for is JBOD. It's not a RAID but just concatenates all drives into one big volume. Every HDD case with RAID functionality should be able to do this. Just make sure that the description mentions it.

You should be aware that without any redundancy, if one of the drives dies the whole array will be lost. So better make backups.

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thomas

Re: timemeasure function give 0ms ?

Posted on: 2018/12/5 12:47 #17

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Probably because your time stamp calculation overflows. Your GetTimeStamp() function always returns -1.

It works better if you use (tNow.tv_sec % 86400), but might give wrong results around midnight.

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thomas

Re: Waiting a SystemTags() for terminating?

Posted on: 2018/10/25 14:15 #18

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No, that's not true. SystemTags() definitely is syncronous unless you set SYS_Async to TRUE.

Maybe the program you run as mycommand detaches itself from the shell. Then you'll have a hard time to wait for its end.

A normal program which blocks the shell until it is finished will also let SystemTags block until the program returns.

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thomas

Re: Passing a variable to function by reference

Posted on: 2018/7/14 23:11 #19

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For IDOS->Printf %d is a 16 bit integer, but the compiler puts a 32 bit integer on the parameter, so you print only the upper half of the 32 bits which is always zero for numbers below 65536. You have to use %ld to print it properly.

You should consequently use either printf or Printf everywhere, but don't mix them. You only get confused like in this case.

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thomas

Re: Pointer API

Posted on: 2018/2/18 0:35 #20

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No and no. The function is not in intuition.library and it is not relative to a window.

You can send a IECLASS_NEWPOINTERPOS event to input.device to move the mouse pointer to a given position in the screen.

Example: http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... ty/workbench/midmouse.lha

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