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IDEFiler
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NOTE: This appliaction is Freeware. This means that I retain copyright of the
application at all times. However, you may distribute the application
free of charge so long as:
a) the application is not changed in any way
b) you do not sell this program for profit
c) the application is distributed in its original state
Good, got rid of that!
This module was born out of complete and utter fustration with my IDEFiler
provided with my Watford Internal 30Mb IDE card for my A3000. It works... but
it is not Risc OS 3 friendly at all - no nice free window, and totally
unprioritised (it popped up on the icon bar AFTER the adfs::0 icon).
So I'm afraid the list of requirements for this module is as follows:
• Needs an IDE (not Acorn) drive
• Needs RISC OS 3.00 at least
• Needs Watford Electronics IDEFS module (included in IDE podule) 2.1 at
least
• Optional requirement: Computer Concepts CFS filing system
It may work on other suppliers IDE drives but I will not bet on it.
The module should be loaded before entering the desktop - i.e. before a
deskboot file is run. I put an RMLoad command in a !boot file which then runs
my deskboot file.
The module kills the original filer (it is of the same name or should be)
and installs itself on the far left of the icon bar when the desktop is
started.
Clicking on the icon with the select button will open the root directory of
the drive. Clicking with adjust will open the compressed root directory if
CFS is activated.
The menu has 4 options: Name drive is the same as any other filer. Dismount
is again the same as usual. Compact just issues a 'IDEFS:Compact' command.
Free displays the standard Risc OS 3 freespace window.
Pressing TAB in any filer windows of the drive will close that window and
open the compressed windows or vice versa.
And that is it!
Limitations: Will currently only cope with one drive
Opens IDEFS::4.$ rather than IDEFS::DriveName.$
Bugs: If you select free off the menu after having dismounted the drive, the
machine hangs. I don't think it is due to my code but I am willing to
be corrected!
Things to do: Sort out the limitations!
Write some event code to detect the TAB key press, rather than
using a window off screen as a hot-keys window
My Address: Snail_Mail: 85 Northcote Rd,
Bramhall,
Stockport,
Cheshire,
SK7 2HF.
E_mail: bdm1001@hermes.cam.ac.uk
or bdm1001@phx.cam.ac.uk
(until June '95 unless I find myself moved
elsewhere!)
Please feel free to get in contact with any silly suggestions, bug reports
(hope not) and of course any financial rewards you may feel I require
(believe me I do require them!).
Brian Marsden (30/10/93)