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- DiscSpace 1.04 (10-Feb-1994)
-
- Purpose: display of graphical disc usage statistics for directories
- Author: Martin Wuerthner
- Jahnstrasse 18
- 71116 Gaertringen
- (Germany)
- e-mail: wuerthne@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- Runs under: RISC OS 2 or higher
- supports RISC OS 3 image files and DragASprite
- Status: FREEWARE (see below)
-
- Have you ever wondered where all the free space on your hard disc has
- gone? Do you want to know which directories consume most of your hard
- disc space without having to count each directory using the filer?
-
- This application shows a diagram of disc usage, displaying a bar for
- each directory. The whole directory tree is cached so you can open
- subdirectories similar to using a filer window.
-
- How to use it:
- --------------
-
- The main menu item 'Count' leads to a standard RISC OS save box. Drag
- the 'filer window icon' to the directory you are interested in (e.g.
- the root directory of a drive).
- DiscSpace scans the directory and all its subdirectories displaying
- some kind of FilerAction window (offering the menu options 'Faster'
- and 'Verbose' like the real FilerAction window). Note that counting
- may take some time if the chosen directory is a top-level one.
-
- Having finished the 'Count' operation, DiscSpace displays a window
- which shows a 'Total' bar for the whole directory and a bar for each
- subdirectory indicating how much disc space it consumes. By
- double-clicking on a subdirectory, it is opened and the window is
- replaced by a display of the corresponding subdirectory. By chosing
- 'Open parent' from the menu or by Adjust-clicking on the Close icon,
- you can go up one level in the directoy tree (but no further up if yor
- are at your starting directory).
- By default files are not shown in the window. Instead, there is one
- item which shows how much space all the files in the directory consume
- together. If you double-click on this item or choose 'Show files' from
- the menu, this item is replaced by one item for each file in the
- directory. Double-clicking on any of these file icons or choosing
- 'Show Files' again switches back to the original display mode. By
- choosing 'Open filer' from the menu, a filer window on the currently
- displayed directory is opened.
- Choose 'Rescan' from the menu to have the directory scanned again
- (useful if you have deleted objects in the meantime).
-
- The main menu item 'Images' determines whether DiscSpace also scans
- the directory trees of image files (DOSDisc files or archives when
- used with !SparkFS). If it is not ticked, images are treated as files.
- The displayed size of an image file is always the size of the file
- (not the sum of the sizes of the objects inside the image). So for a
- DOSDisc image, the overall size usually differs from the sum of the
- sizes of the objects inside (as there may be unused space inside the
- image).
-
-
- DiscSpace uses outline fonts wherever possible (i.e. for all icons
- and menus). If you do not want this feature or if your version of the
- WindowManager already uses outline fonts instead of the system font,
- you may switch it off by commenting out the following line in the !Run
- file:
- Set DiscSpace$UseFont TRUE
- or by setting the variable to FALSE.
-
- You may change the font to be used and its size by modifying the
- lines:
- Set DiscSpace$Font ...
- SetEval DiscSpace$FontWidth ...
- SetEval DiscSpace$FontHeight ...
- to suit your own taste. Note that if the font is not found, the
- application reverts to using the system font.
-
- History:
- version 1.03 (05-Feb-1994): first version sent to Hensa
- version 1.04 (10-Feb-1994): fixed bug:
- Rescan took the currently displayed directory
- as starting directory for the scan instead of
- the previous starting directory
-
- This application is FREEWARE, i.e. it may be copied freely provided
- that all files are distributed together and that none of them is
- changed. Distribution is only allowed if it is not sold for profit.
-