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Directory Opus 5 release 5.5 - Notes 20th August 1996
Thank you for purchasing Directory Opus. We hope you enjoy using the
program as much as we do!
Registration Procedure
The registration process used in Directory Opus 5 has been
designed to be of minimal inconvenience to the legitimate
purchaser but at the same time protect our rights and investment
in the development of the product. We have experimented with a
number of procedures, many of which were much harsher in
operation to the one now used. We believe that with your help,
the current serialisation system and registration can work well
for both you and us.
In the current Amiga market, software piracy means that we and
other developers will not be able to continue to develop software
for the Amiga. This would be a loss to all of us! We encourage
you to show Directory Opus to friends but not to give them copies
of the disk.
Remember the old saying,
Pass the word not this disk
.
Each registration number is unique and ensures your personal
registration. You will need to quote this for technical support
and to be eligible for any updates and for future upgrades.
The registration procedure used in Directory Opus locks the
program into the hard disk onto which it is installed. If you
copy Opus to another drive or use one of the disk re-organisers
you will have to re-register your copy of Opus with the serial
number supplied in your package.
If you obtain a Directory Opus 5 package that does not contain a
serial registration number, please contact us immediately.
Languages
Directory Opus 5 has been written in full compliance with the
Amiga Locale system and can therefore be made available in any
language supported by Locale. As time goes by we will endeavour
to make non-English language catalogs available (generally
through AmiNet). If you wish to volunteer to create a catalog
for your local language which is not currently supported by Opus
5, please contact us or your local distributor for details of
localised versions.
ARexx Scripts
We have provided a set of ARexx scripts which have been supplied
by enthusiastic Opus 5 users. These are contained in the
Dopus5:Arexx directory. GPSoftware provides these scripts AS IS
with no explicit or implied warranty or support. Please contact
the original authors for any information. There are several
other ARexx scripts under development and we plan to make these
available via public sources such as the Internet and Aminet. We
are in the process of setting up an internet site to provide such
support, help and assistance for Directory Opus 5. Stay tuned...
Displaying a picture on Opus startup
Opus has a hidden feature which allows you to display a picture
while the program is loading. For the startup picture to be
displayed, you need to use the STARTUPPIC keyword on the command
line when invoking the program or running via loaddb. For
example, when running Opus as workbench startup, you could change
your S:startup-sequence and change the c:LoadWB command to
c:LoadWB STARTUPPIC=dopus5:StartupPic
Or, you could set it to:
c:LoadWB STARTUPPIC=dopus5:StartupPic|3
The "|3" makes DOpus wait at least 3 seconds before removing the
picture.
It wouldn't really hurt to change your startup-sequence to do
this as those keywords don't mean anything to the old loadwb
command.
We have provided a couple of sample pictures on the Opus55_Extras
disk (StartupPicA and StartupPicB) in this installation. These
are NOT installed by the installer script but you can simply
drag them across to your Dopus5: drawer at a later date if you
wish to use them.
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Directory Opus 5.5 Update Release Notes
The following changes were made since the manual went to press.
General changes:
- FindFile now has a "New Lister" button in the requester. If you
click this, a new lister will be opened showing the directory of
the found file, and the search will continue in the original
lister.
- A trial lister editing system was added at a late stage. This is
still under development, so there is no configuration option for
it. Instead, set the environment variable dopus/ListerEditing
(eg setenv dopus/ListerEditing 1). You can copy this variable to
envarc:dopus if you wish to make the change permanent.
This system allows you to perform Rename, Datestamp, Protect and
Comment functions directly in the lister (in name mode only). To
edit something, click and hold the left button over the item
without moving the mouse for about half a second. If you have a
three-button mouse, just click the middle mouse button over it.
For example, to change a filename, click and hold over the name.
A cursor will then appear which allows you to edit the item.
Press return to keep changes or escape to abort. You can also
use the cursor keys to move up and down lines, and tab/shift-tab
to move between fields. Cut, paste, copy and undo are also
supported via the normal keys.
- Opus no longer looks for SoundTracker modules itself. The
recognition method used by the inovamusic.library was causing
problems with files being erroneously recognised, and it was also
slowing down the recognition of other filetypes.
If you want Opus to recognise mods now, you need to create a
specific filetype for it. A sample one is included in this
archive. The new filetype command "Sound Module" will match if
the inovamusic.library recognises the file as a mod.
Changes to ARexx commands:
- Custom handlers now get 'snapshot' and 'unsnapshot' messages for
their listers. Arg0 contains the message type, and Arg1 contains
the lister handle.
- The 'dopus read' rexx command can now take a 'delete' parameter,
specifying that the file is to be deleted once the user has
finished reading it (this is good for temporary files).
For example,
dopus read delete t:temp-file
- The 'dopus command' function now has a couple of additional
parameters.
The 'ext' keyword in conjunction with the 'type' parameter allows
you to add filetype-specific items to the object popup menus
(these are now known as PopUpExtensions). The 'ext' parameter
specifies the text to be displayed in the menu, and the 'type'
parameter specifies the type of object this menu is displayed
for. You may have multiple occurrences of the 'type' parameter
(but only one 'ext').
You can specify either the filetype description or its ID for the
'type' (the ID is checked first). You can also specify one of
the following keywords :
all, disk, drawer, tool, project, trash, baddisk, leftout
There is also a new 'private' keyword for the 'dopus command'
function. If this is specified, the command is added as private,
meaning it will not show up in the command list.
Check out the 'arcbrowse.dopus5' and 'check.dopus5' modules for
example usage.
- There is a new 'editing' option for the 'lister set <h> handler'
If you specify 'editing', lister editing will be enabled for this
lister. The message your handler will receive on completion of
an edit is :
Arg0 - "edit"
Arg1 - lister handle
Arg2 - entry name
Arg3 - "name", "protect", "date", "comment"
Arg4 - new string
Arg5 - entry userdata
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