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DicePref V1.0
© 1992 by
Jan Schroeder
WHAT IS DICEPREF ?
DicePref is the result of my first steps in Amiga-programming and C. In
1991 i bought the Dice C-Environment directly from Matt Dillon at the
Amiga 91 in Cologne. At first i steered Dice by ARexx, but i missed the
intuitive interface known from the Amiga. So the idea for DicePref was
born.
With the Dice-startup-batchfile (Dice.sh) and DicePref you can steer the
most important features of Dice. The switches are stored in the DCCOPTS
environment-variable, the assigns and the object-files have their own
environment-variables, which are used and set by the startup-file and
DicePref. If you see a more comfortable way to give Dice the objectfiles
etc. please let me know.
In the upper part of the window you can switch different options, in the
middle part you can choose the path for the assigns and in the lower part
the files can be add, which shall be linked. Ok, the switch for 040 is
not really necessary, but I added it for completition. The 040 will
automatically switch instructions in his special ones, so this switch
works like 000.
If you select "USE" or "SAVE" the switches and the object-files will be
stored and the assigns will be made.
SERVICE FILES
Start your C-environment with the batchfile '
Dice.sh
' or an other
batchfile working by the same way to use the additional environment-
variables for the paths modified by DicePref.
To compile you should use a batchfile working like '
bin/make
',
which adds the environment-variable DCCOBJECTS at the end of the -o
switch. I didn´t see another - more comfortable - way to get the same
result.
BUGS
No bug known, but there is a behavior, which i couldn´t suppress: when
i examine the path for the assigns a requester will appear, which asks
for inserting the volume with the requested identifikation, when the
assigns are NOT made already.
I wanted DicePref to be variable, but i wasn´d able to identify the
screen on which the actual window exists, so i helped me badly with
searching TURBOTEXT or WORKBENCH or opening an own screen.
Because of i found no way to set a system font for the DicePref-window
alone i proove the screenfont for topaz 11 and open an own screen, if
there isn´t the needed font (or screensize!).
If you have any help or suggestions, please write to me!
HOW TO START DICEPREF
From CLI : Type '
DicePref
' and press return.
From Workbench: Double-click on the '
DicePref
' icon.
COMPATIBILITY
DicePref needs kickstart 2.x ! It has been tested on a Golem 030/882
6 MB board running at 14 MHz in an AMIGA 2000 B Rev 6 with 1 MB chip
and XT bridgeboard, Golem SCSI II-controller with Quantum 240 LPS
and Seagate ST 1096 N, Roßmöller 2 MB RAM-cartridge and a flickerfixer.
If any problems encounter with other configurations then let me know.
THANKS!
At first thanks to Matt Dillon for his C-environment.
Many thanks to Henrich Deppenmeier, who supported me with Fish-Disks
and his ROM-Kernel-Manuals (Version 1.1 ;-) and Klaus Bockrath for
teaching me the C-basics. Thanks to the many other fish-supporter, too.
Also thanks to Jan van den Baard for his GadToolsBox.
And last but not least: Fred Fish.
Send
bug-reports
,
suggestions
,
comments
etc. to:
Jan Schroeder
Metzer Str. 4
4800 Bielefeld 1
Tel. 0521/17 20 47
or Pit@Genesys.zer.sub.org