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Short: Gadgets for OS selection during startup
Uploader: uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
Author: uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric R. Augustine)
Type: util/boot
New for 1.16: Both gadgets have system alterable system strings.
This program started out as a simple program to solve a simple
problem - choose to boot into AmigaOS or NetBSD on a machine
that had both options available at startup time BEFORE going
through all of the Startup-Sequence. This was originally done
using Nico Francois' excellent ReqTools package. After requests
came asking for timeout I decided that using Intuition directly
was best so the original version was completely scrapped and
what is now here came to be. I added a timeout and default
feature allowing BReq to go through a default option after a
certain amount of time had passed. Realizing that the timeout
might be quite long I added a blanker (quite simple once I got
the idea of IDCMP) and it was quite silly of me not to make
both buttons (or gadgets rather) alterable - so now both gads
can be altered on the command line.
Details about all of the options are in the accompanying "BReq.man"
document as well as several examples.
I have it directly following C:SetPatch in my Startup-Sequence where it
works well - allowing me to avoid all the stuff in my startup so I don't
have to wait for all of that to be done before booting into NetBSD.
Give it a go and let me know if there's anything wrong - or something
you'd like added (I'll try :) I would like to add a NoClick option to
stop the floppy from making that bloody clicking noise. This is mostly
a learning thing for me since previous to this I had little or no
intention of ever doing anything that had any graphical interface
whatsoever. So - the code is overly commented for anyone curious
about doing something similar.
I can be contacted at the above internet address until Oct1994 and after
that at
voodoo@well.sf.ca.us
Enjoy...
- Eric.
History (???)
1.16 Changed the SYSSTRING option to SYSA and added SYSB. Also
made the non-REVERSE screen a default set of colours. SYSB
introduced for some odd reason the new BUTTONS bug.
1.15 Removed WBENCHSCREEN option - or rather made CUSTOMSCREEN the
only screen type option. Rewrote most of the code to use gadgets
and responses from IDCMP. Added DEFAULT and TIMEOUT options.
Also added are comment strings for each gadget. These are the
ATEXT and BTEXT options and as a result of the gadget comment
strings the buttons were placed on top of each other on the
left side of the screen rather than in the middle. Also got
the screen BLANKer working smoothly this time around. IDCMP
and Intuition in general made life alot easier. It's not a
fancy blanker - just makes the screen and pointer black. And
last but, not least - PAL/NTSC recognition was added for this
version. BReq just checks to see if it is running under PAL
and changes the positions of the gadgets and comments as well
as resizing the window and screen accordingly.
1.14 Various attempts at getting a TIMEOUT to work properly brought
me to use a standard Intuition requester. Discovered IDCMP
doesn't quite work that way. (test version)
1.13 Last of the ReqTools versions. Added the REVERSE option and
cleaned up code a bit. (test version)
1.12 Added BUTTONS option. (second release)
1.11-1.09 (???) Wasn't really keeping track :) Added SCREEN option
in there somewhere. Also previous to 1.11 SCREEN wasn't an
option - BReq just opened onto its own screen. (test releases)
1.00 Simple ReqTools requestor with SYSSTRING option opening onto
workbench (ugh). (first release)
0.00-0.90 (???) ...