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- Short: Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
- Author: s.e.m.lichtendahl@its.tudelft.nl (Stephan Lichtendahl)
- Uploader: s.e.m.lichtendahl@its.tudelft.nl (Stephan Lichtendahl)
- Version: 2.7
- Type: util/wb
- Status: GiftWare
- Requires: AmigaOS 3.5, PopupMenu.library v9.3, Reqtools.library v38.1436, WBStart.library 2.2
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- Just one (big) change: the addition of an icon cache.
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- Introduction:
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- OK, so it is another one of those Windoze Start button lookalikes. However,
- with this one you can browse your directory tree without ever needing to wait
- for icons to load, because they are loaded dynamically. In addition, icons are
- shown for files that do not have icons (based on filetype) and thumbnails are
- created on the fly for Jpeg pictures. Most importantly, Dynamite is a lot
- faster in loading icons, especially default icons, than Workbench / DOpus.
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- Features
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- · Easy browsing to directories, starting files (with filetype recognition) and
- performing file management (internal functions for copy, move, delete, etc.).
- · From the start button you can browse your (virtual) directory tree; at the
- same time the dock icons next to the start button provide additonal browsers.
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- · You can drop icons on files to change the icon image or on hotlists to add
- items to the hotlist (or even on the start button to change the image).
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- · Supports old, NewIcons and OS3.5 icon formats (and conversion to OS3.5 format)
- · Shows default icons for files that do not have icons, based on filetype.
- · Can scale all icons to a specified size.
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- · Shows thumbnails for all types of pictures, created on the fly.
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- Dynamite is faster in displaying icons than Workbench / DOpus, because:
- · Only those icons are loaded that are on the current and next two "pages".
- · Only one default icon is loaded for each filetype and reused for every file
- of the same type.
- · You don't have to wait for the icons or thumbnails to finish loading.
- · All icons loaded are cached, so browser contents are reloaded very fast
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- · Files and directories can be added to various hotlists or as dock icons.
- · Supports the creation of hierarchical hotlist structures, i.e. you can have
- one hotlist opening another and that one another, ...
-
- · Filetype recognition is based on file extensions. The "def_*.info" files in
- the "EnvArc:sys/" directory are used as default icons (e.g. "def_doc.info"
- for a "*.doc" file). The "Default Tool" entry is used to open a file and an
- "EDIT" tooltype can be specified as an alternative tool.
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- · Memory pools are used to reduce memory fragmentation.
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- Version History
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- Important: as usual, it is recommended to read the documentation!
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- Dynamite 2.7:
- · Added icon cache for speeding up icon loading in browsers !
- · The 'Flush icons' feature flushes the unused icons from the cache.
- · The 'Reload icon' option in the icon popup menu reloads an icon from disk.
- · BugFix: icons will start loading on opening a browser window
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- Dynamite 2.6:
- · Completely rewrote the copy, move and delete routines. They no longer use
- external commands (ie. copy and delete) and now work like you expect from
- Workbench and DOpus. Very fast with WinUAE. A progress window is shown and
- can be used to abort the operation (by clicking the close gadget).
- · Removed the limitation of 16 browser windows (including main window).
- · Added 'Reload drawer' to browser popup menu to reload the contents.
- · Resizing of browser windows is now smarter when items are added or removed;
- also, the windows are placed above (and thus never hide) the dock window.
- · Added tooltypes POPDOCK and NOPOPWIN to turn on and off the automatic pop to
- front feature for the dock window and browser windows, resp.
- · Items in hotlists are no longer sorted (just added in sequence).
- · Devices are permanently removed from the main hotlist if the hotlist is saved
- after removal. Edit the main hotlist file by hand to get them back.
- · The 'Open with' option is now a submenu again, which includes the old feature
- 'select tool in browser to open items with'.
- · The last commands entered with the 'Open with -> other...' feature can be
- selected from the submenu. They are saved when the docks are saved.
- · The dock icons will popup their name if the mouse rests over them (tooltips).
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- Dynamite 2.5:
- · BugFix: For copy & paste icon images and dropping icons on windows the icon's
- transparency settings are now taken into account.
- · BugFix: Now launches Arexx scripts a bit differently to prevent problems.
- · BugFix: static strings that contained Arexx functions would accidentily get
- changed (such as for CLOSEVIEW) so they could only be executed properly once.
- · Added tooltype TOP to specify the top coordinate of the main button window
- · Added tooltype CLICKCLOSE to close a window (and its parents) when a program
- is started by clicking the file.
- · Pressing Escape closes a window (and its parents).
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