The ultimate in byte disposal for the Amiga.
Copyright © 1993 By Aric R Caley and Greywire designs\input texinfo
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Written by Aric R Caley, AKA Dances V2.0, Dances With Coyotes, Major, Mr Coyote, and other handles/nicknames. :) See the readme file if you wish to contact me.
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See Readme in Readme!
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Best place is in your WBStartup drawer!
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The current version, 1.5, was released on January 5, 2023. The first public release of Trashmaster was Jan 23 1992.
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I had always wanted to write something like this but until now, I couldnt do it. Not that it was particularly easy to do, even under Workbench 2.0.
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The main problem is with getting finicky old Workbench to stay “in sync”
with the filing system.. IE, removing its icons when a file is deleted.
Thanks to a new function called DeleteDiskObject()
, it’s possible to get
workbench to remove an icon. Unfortunately Workbench still is kinda
brain-dead... when you have it display ALL files, it spontaneously creates
icons in memory for files that dont have them… which results in
DeleteDiskObject()
not working (no file on disk) and Workbench not removeing
the icon. The only solution I could come up with is to PutDiskObject()
and
then delete this icon, which works more or less pretty well. There are
still, however, problems. Workbench, it seems, will “lock” a directory if
its window is open on the Workbench screen. This means I can’t delete it
until it’s closed… not too big a deal, since when you delete the icon the
window closes automaticaly. But what if something else has that directory
locked? Then I couldn’t delete it after all… that means I need to put
the icon back! heheh. But I think I’ve come up with a good solution.
Another problem is that there’s no way to find out where the AppIcon is, within the WorkBench window — so there is no way to implement a snapshot option within your application (of course, the root problem is that Workbench doesn’t provide any way to “hook” into the Workbench operations like snapshot, info, etc. See below for my solution to this).
This seems like a good place to voice some opinions on Workbench 2.0, and what I’d like to see in the future.
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OK, I’ll step down off my soapbox now!
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To run Trashmaster, simply double click its icon, or run it from a CLI (it will detach from the CLI of course). Obviously, Workbench must be running (and will be, unless you were naughty and modified your startup-sequence). Trashmaster will open an icon on the Workbench screen; this icon will look the same as the icon you ran Trashmaster from. If you want to change it, you can, by modifying the Tooltypes in Trashmaster’s icon (see below about the Tooltypes available). BTW, the icon is supposed to look like a black hole...
If you want to be able to format disks with Trashmaster, you must have
WBStart-Handler
installed in your L:
directory. The
WBStart-Handler is included with ToolManager, a must-have utility, or in
it’s own separate distribution, both of which should be available on a Fish
disk or any good FTP site, or failing that, from me. ToolManager and
WBStart are Copyright © 1991-93 Stefan Becker. The default
formating program is the same as Workbench’s formatter.
To use Trashmaster, simply drag files and drop them on the icon. A
requester will come up, similar to Workbench’s Delete confirmation
requester. If you really want to delete the file(s) or dir(s), click
OK
; if not, hit CANCEL
. Remember, once you hit
OK
, the files are deleted.. they’re gone! For reals.
Not like the Trashcan. If you have the VERIFY=OFF
tooltype
set, you won’t get this requester!
One difference from the Workbench Delete, is the extra option for Interactive deletion. With interactive delete, you will get a confirmation requester for each file you dropped into Trashmaster. For each file, you can choose to either delete it, delete all the rest of the files non-interactively, skip this file, or abort completely.
If Trashmaster comes across a file that is protected from deletion, it will
bring up a requester with two options, FORCE
and CANCEL
. If
you select FORCE
, Trashmaster will un-protect the file and delete
it! Selecting CANCEL
will of course cancel the operation. If you
have the FORCE=ON
tooltype set, you won’t get this requester,
the file will simply be deleted without warning.
To quit Trashmaster (which you dont really want to do, do you? :), double click the AppIcon and select the remove option.
If you want Trashmaster started automaticly (you DO, dont you?), place it into the “WBStartup” drawer on your boot disk.
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There are 8 Tooltypes you can add/modify:
X=<##>
This is the X coordinate of the icon. A -1 will tell workbench to find a suitable place for the icon.
Y=<##>
This is the Y cooridnate of the icon. A -1 will tell workbench to find a suitable place for the icon.
ICON=<name>
This is the name of a custom icon to be used instead of the default icon (the default being Trashmaster’s icon)
NAME=<name>
Set this to change the name under Trashmaster’s AppIcon.
FORMATTER=<name>
Set to the name of the disk-formatting program of your choice. The program will be started as a Workbench application and passed the disk icon to format.
VERIFY=<ON|OFF>
If set to OFF
, the initial verification requester will not
appear. If set to anything else, or not present, verify will default to
ON
. The action performed will be the one defined by the TYPE
tooltype. Use at your own risk.
TYPE=<INTERACTIVE>
Applicable only when VERIFY=OFF
is set. If set to
INTERACTIVE
, deletes will default to interactive deletes (requireing
confirmation for every file and directory).
FORCE=<ON|OFF>
If set to ON
, files that have their protection flags set to
delete-protected will be deleted without warning. If set to anything else,
or not present, you’ll get a requester whenever you try to delete a
protected file.
VERIFY
, TYPE
and FORCE
can work in conjuction. If you
don’t want any anoying verification requesters, you can turn
VERIFY
off, TYPE
to nothing (leave it out), and FORCE
on. If you always want interactive deletes, have VERIFY
off but
TYPE
set to INTERACTIVE
.
Be carefull with these! If you turn off verification and use the
FORCE
option, anything that gets dropped on TrashMaster will be
simply deleted without warning, even if it’s protected from deletion.
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