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!WhichDisc
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PLEASE NOTE: This application is © B.D. Marsden 1994 and as such must not be
altered in any way. However this version has been released in the public domain
and may therefore be distributed to as many people as you wish so long as
nothing is changed in any way, shape or form to the application and the files
within it and no charge is made for any distribution (except that for the media
upon which this application be placed).
DISCLAIMER: I cannot accept any resposibility for any loss of work in any way
due to the use of this application on its own or in conjunction with any other.
Brief Synopsis:
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WhichDisc is one of those little utilities you will either need occasionally or
never need at all. It basically tells you which disc is in a drive (which drive
it looks at is configurable if you happen to have more than one) or if there
isn't one. That's it really. I write it becuase I tend not to put labels on my
discs but do title them correctly. Hence the only way of checking to see which
disc is which is to click on the drive icon... far from automatic.
How it works:
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WhichDisc produces a small window which can be moved around by dragging the
window (but don't drag on the drive sprite - see later). In this window is the
drive which the application is looking at at the moment plus the name of any
disc inserted in that drive. At the moment the drive is checked after a certain
period of time which is configured by using the 'Poll Time' option on the menu
which can be brought up in the usual way over the window. A value of 0 means
that the drive is never checked. However, at all times the drive can be checked
immediately by clicking on the drive sprite in the window.
The currently selected drive can be changed using the menu (but only if you
have more than one drive) and the current setup can be saved. This saves the
current drive, poll time and window position settings.
The application supports the DeskBoot protocol and will also detect whether you
have your machine set for 3D windows/icons automatically. If, when running, it
produces 2D windows and you want the 3D ones run Toggle3/2D which is in the
application's directory and rerun WhichDisc.
Problems/Bugs:
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• Running more than one WhichDisc at a time and then attempting to quit
one causes a major crash. Don't know why (yet). It seems to be a common
occurence with all applications I write at the moment so there must be an
identical bug in everything. Can't seem to find it though....
Things to do:
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• Allow more than one window (and hence more than one drive) displayed by the
same application
• Sort out a faster and more reliable detection system that will spot that the
disc has been changed by what is going on around RISC OS. Tricky, but very
important
Addresses e.t.c.
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If you have any ideas, donations (always welcome) or happen to find any bugs
(in which case I need to hear from you NOW) I can be contacted as follows:
Snail Mail: During term time: Clare College
(until June '96) Cambridge
CB2 1TL
Otherwise: 85 Northcote Rd
Bramhall
Stockport
Cheshire
SK7 2HF
E-Mail: All the time: bdm1001@phx.cam.ac.uk (until September '95)
OR bdm1001@hermes.cam.ac.uk (until June '96)
I hope the program is some use to you!
Brian D. Marsden (9/6/94)