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WBCtrl
© 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht
All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
WBCtrl is copyrighted 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht.
All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is
left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage
caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the
program(s) it describes.
REQUIREMENTS
Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.5 and
68020+ cpu.
DESCRIPTION
WBCtrl allows you to control some undocumented features of
the AmigaOS3.5 Workbench®.
USAGE
The program can only be started from shell, the following
options are provided:
MCM=MAXCOPYMEM/N/K,IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K,DN=DRAWERNOTIFICATION/S,
G=GAUGE/S,R=REFRESH/S,MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH/N/K,Q=QUERY/S
MCM=MAXCOPYMEM/N/K: will set the maximum number of bytes the
file copy code will use. Some SCSI controllers (don't ask which:)
are not able to transfer more 32k at once because of this the
default setting is 65536 bytes (two buffers, each 32k).
IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K: when set to FAST or ANY, wb and icon.lib will
use fastram for imagedata (p96/cgx or fblit required!). Use
CHIP for chipram. It's safe to use this option without p96/cgx
as WBCtrl will check for an RTG system / fblit before actually
performing the change. If you use fblit by Stephen Brookes,
you should use ICONFAST instead of FAST to avoid problems
with workbench.library. Last but not least WBFAST tells wb
to use fastram for imagedata and resets icon.library to use
chipram.
DN=DRAWERNOTIFICATION/S: enable/disable drawer notification:
"if enabled, Workbench will be notified of changes in every
'Show all files' mode drawer. Every time a notification arrives,
Workbench will reread the drawer."
G=GAUGE/S: disable/enable the Workbench volume fill gauges.
Any open volume/root drawer window will *not* be updated. You
must close them first.
R=REFRESH/S: use this option in conjunction with G=GAUGE/S
and WBCtrl will update the drawer windows for you.
MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH: "icon.library has a built-in file name length
limit that affects whether icon files are read and written.
Currently, the default for this value is 25 characters. This
is sufficient for an icon file name acceptable with the ROM
filing system. This limit has two effects: if an icon file is
to be written whose name would be longer than the limit,
icon.library will silently abort the write attempt and pretend
that the icon file has been written; this is done in order to
avoid overwriting the original data file with the icon file.
If an icon file was read that turns out to contain invalid icon
data, another test is done in order to find out whether the file
name was longer than the limit. If this is the case, it is
assumed that the data was read from the original file rather
than from the icon file. The library then pretends that the
icon file was not found." (this was taken from the Autodocs,
© 1985-1999 Amiga Int., Inc.)
Q=QUERY/S: show current settings.
INSTALLATION
Copy the program to your C: directory.
HISTORY
1.0 first public release for os35 beta testers.
1.1 added REFRESH/S option.
1.2 internal release.
1.3 IMAGEMEMTYPE can be changed even without an RTG system
now, when FBlit by Stephen Brookes is running. Extented
IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K option.
1.4 added MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH/N/K option.
AUTHOR
Please send bug reports and ideas to:
Stephan Rupprecht
Apfeldweg 1
D44359 Dortmund
Germany
Send emails to
stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de