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- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 87 06:48:48 GMT
- From: tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Clemans)
- Subject: "startup" desk accessory
- To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
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- What follows is a special "startup" desk accessory collection, called
- "startupm.c".
-
- It contains the following pieces:
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- All "control panel" desktop.inf lines are read on bootup (or on
- request) and the system is initialized appropriately. If you've
- used the standard Atari desk accessories to set desktop parameters
- (colors, mouse info, etc), serial port info and parallel port info
- and saved that to a desktop.inf file, this desk accessory will
- set that information without having to have the standard desk
- accessories present, taking up memory and accessory slots.
-
- (Using an algorithm described once that's probably dependent on
- the current OS roms) "startupm" displays the current amount of
- free memory in the upper right hand corner of the screen. It also
- displays the current time and date adjacent to the free memory
- display.
-
- "Startupm" puts an entry in the desk accessory menu called
- "Other...". If that entry is selected, a dialog box is presented
- with three options. The first, "Reset", rereads the desktop.inf
- file and resets system parameters. It is typically used after
- some program has clobbered the color map.
-
- The second, "Idle", is a screen saver pattern that displays a
- bouncing "ST" icon on a background that periodically changes color.
-
- The final option, "Run Program", provides a way to run a program
- (which can't be a GEM program (it must be a TOS-only program)
- unfortunately) via a file selector dialog box. It's only really
- useful if you want to run something that's not currently displayed
- in a window, and you don't want to change the windows.
-
- "Startupm.c" should be compiled as a desk accessory (of course). I have
- only tried Megamax C; using other compilers shouldn't be difficult.
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