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Chapter One
What's New for Opus 5.5
What's New for Opus 5.5 ...........1
Highlights of Directory Opus 5.5 ..2
What's New for Opus 5.5
We thank you for your continuing support of Directory Opus. After more
than a year of extra development since its original release, Opus 5.5
contains many changes and enhancements over the original Opus 5. Thanks
to the feedback from many loyal users and a dedicated band of Beta
testers, we are confident that you will enjoy this new enhanced version of
the Amiga world's most popular directory and file management utility.
With version 5.5, almost every facet of Opus has been examined and
subjected to user scrutiny, backed up by extensive field testing by very
persistent Beta testers. In fact, Opus 5.5 is more of a new program than
an update. We believe that this version provides many significant
improvements in both operational power and usability.
Opus 5 was the first program to attempt to integrate the concept of a
file manager with that of a replacement Workbench. We have worked through
a number of compatibility problems this caused and this idea has been
greatly extended in Opus 5.5. We now believe that this is the best method
of using Opus. Why run workbench AND a file manager when Opus integrates
the two!
A brief summary of the most important changes is provided below and the
details have been incorporated into this new manual.
Directory Opus 5 1
Highlights of Directory Opus 5.5
* A new Icon Action Mode gives all the power of Name Mode but with
icons. You can now use buttons and commands with icons.
* Button banks and Listers need no longer be activated first in order
to see right and middle mouse clicks. You can select a button
without first activating the underlying window.
* You may now have borderless Button banks with a sleek minimal dragbar
instead of a full window border.
* New Filetype-specific pop-up menus allows special menus for icons and
files. Through Opus Filetypes you can now add custom menus for
different types of files and icons.
* Custom buttons now have a pop-up menu giving access to an extended
selection of commands for the left mouse button events while
retaining fixed commands for middle and right mouse clicks.
* Independent HotKeys are now supported and these may be local to Opus
or operate globally on your system.
* A new Scripts system allows functions to be executed upon certain
events including a double mouse click, disk inserted or removed, etc.
* Custom menus have been improved and multiple user menus are now
supported. All menus may now have sub items.
* WorkBench Replacement Mode has been enhanced. Opus 5.5 can now be
used with complete confidence to replace the standard Workbench.
* An integrated OpusFTP capability lets you seamlessly access remote
Internet sites from standard Opus Listers just as if they were local
directories.
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* A new Automatic Filetype Creator allows you to create and test
Filetypes with ease.
* A new font viewer is now included. Just double-click on a font to
view it.
* Enhanced Name Mode Listers now have field titles, single-click re-
sorting by fields, plus a new version field which reads the internal
version information from each file.
* Listers can now have individual toolbars.
* New colour remapping of button and icon images provides support for
'Magic Workbench' and other palette changing systems.
* A new internal Opus CLI gives immediate access to internal commands
allowing to you quickly test commands and ARexx scripts.
* Unwanted drive icons can be selectively hidden from the Opus main
window.
* Dynamic drag-selection of icons provides better performance.
* Enhanced clipboard support provides full cut, copy and paste with all
string gadgets, and, within Listers, the names of selected entries
can be copied to the clipboard.
* Listers are no longer blocked while busy - you can now resize,
iconify, and scroll busy Listers.
* The 'Execute Command' requester now remembers its last 20 commands
entered.
* Icon and Lister snapshots are now stored separately from Workbench.
Directory Opus 5 3
* Listers in Icon or Icon Action Mode can now display a background
picture or pattern.
* The Lister status bar details can be customised.
* Opus 5's text output can be directed to your selected device other
than 'CON:'
* Icon borders and names can be disabled for individual icons.
* Buttons in banks and toolbars can now use two-frame images.
* Several new internal commands have been added.
* Many new ARexx commands have been added and old ones have been
extended with new features. You can now even add you own internal
commands directly to the Opus command list.
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