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MENU ITEMS & HOW TO USE THEM
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Move the Mouse Pointer to the top of the screen,press the Right Mouse
Button and hold the Button down.Now move the Pointer across the top bar &
you will see 4 sections - Workbench,Window,Icons and Tools. Now move the
Mouse Pointer Up + Down the columns,there are quite a few options on show,
but what do they mean?
Open the CLI Window and type - show menu and a picture will be shown
displaying the Menu. Press the Right Mouse Button once and this will
return you back to the Workbench Screen.
Row 1 Under the Workbench Heading
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Backdrop - Release the Mouse Button over this causes the Top Bar and the
Surround to dissapear.If you like this setting,use the Snap -
Shot menu item in the Windows column.For directions how to use
this,look at the Snapshot Description in the Windows Heading.
Execute Command - This item allows you to execute an Amiga DOS command
without having to use the Shell Window (Like CLI).
After you've entered the command,press the OK Button
with the Left Mouse Button to start it up.
Redraw All - On rare occasions,a program which you use through Workbench
may cause the Workbench screen to become corrupted (Fuzzy
or slightly distorted Text,Icons etc.),this menu item draws
the Workbench screen back to it's original state.
Update All - This item Redraws each open window,nothing really to see
unless you are using the Shell and Workbench together.Does a
similar thing to Redraw All.
Last Message - If you have made a mistake or missed something out (which
is common!),a message appears telling you "Error.." or
"Cannot find..". Doesn't the message flash before your
eyes too fast sometimes? and you don't have time to read
it properly,leaving you confused. Releasing the Right Mouse
Button on this item,will display the last message so you
can read it at your own pace.
About - Choosing this item will generally tell you of the Kickstart and
Workbench versions,so you know what you've got.
Quit - Select this and a Requester Box appears asking if you want to quit
the Workbench - Click on OK if you want to and Cancel if you've
made a boob!
Row 2 Under the Window Heading
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New Drawer - On the old Workbench (1.2's & 1.3's) you had to type "New
Drawer etc." in the CLI window. With this item you just
release the Right Mouse Button over "New Drawer" and it puts
a new drawer in the Workbench Window (The terms "Drawer" and
"Window" are discussed in the Windows Section), then a
Requester Box appears asking you what you want to call the
drawer. At present it is called "unnamed",if you wish to give
the drawer a different name,hold the backspace key down and
all the text will be deleted.Type in what you are calling the
drawer and click on OK or just press return.
Open Parent - A parent in Computer terms,is where the smaller drawers and
Windows have come from or Files usually come from parent
directories.When you open your Workbench disk,that is the
parent window,if you open for example the System drawer,
you get a smaller window containing other programs.
The WORKBENCH window is the PARENT window of the SYSTEM
window.
This is where Open Parent comes in. If the Workbench is
closed and you are working in a different drawer,select Open
Parent and the Workbench will open and the screen will come
to the front open.
Close - If you have finished using a window from the Workbench disk and you
wish to remove it,just select Close - Making sure the window is
active before. ( See the Active Window section in "Windows")
Update - If you make changes to the contents of a window through the Shell
or "Execute Command" menu item,you won't notice them until you
close and re-open that window. Using Update will show you what
the Window will look like without having to close & re-open it.
Select Contents - When you choose Select Contents,all the Icons in that
particular active window are selected (Like you have
clicked on them all at the same time).
Clean Up - This arranges the Icons neatly in an order.When Icons are copied
or created,they sometimes appear on top of each other,this sorts
them out.
Snapshot - This saves the position & arrangement of a Window.There are 2
sections of this item - Window and All.
Snapshot-Window will save a position of an open window,but not
the position of the Icons. You are told about positioning a
window in the "Windows" section.
Snapshot - All will save the positions of both the Window and
the Icons.
Show - Make sure your Workbench screen is active and select Show All Files
this will give Icons to all the Directories in your disk.These are
not true Icons,just example Icons to show the Files.
To display only the true Icons,select Show Only Icons from the menu
View By - This item changes the way the information is described on your
Workbench screen.
View By Name changes the window display. The window now contains
a list of the files on the disk,in Alphabetical order.
The list contains the size of the file,whether it can be Read,
Deleted,Executed or Written (rwed) and the date it was created.
View By Date sorts the files by date and puts them in order of
the most recently created files listed first.
View By Size sorts the list by size. The smallest files first.
Row 3 Under the Icons Heading
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Open - To open an Icon is to make the items within the Icons available for
use. Select an Icon,then select Open and the Icon opens displaying
it's contents.
Copy - This item allows you to copy disks,programs,files or drawers.
How to copy a disk (Back Up): The disk that you are copying from is
known as the SOURCE disk,the disk you are copying to is known as the
DESTINATION disk. The destination disk can be a disk which you no
longer wish to use or a blank disk. The disk MUST be WRITE-ENABLED,
so the information you are copying to this disk can be accepted.
(The tab should be covering the hole in the corner of the disk).
Let's start: Make sure your SOURCE is Write Protected (See Below),
put the Source disk in your Amigas disk drive,select the Icon,choose
Copy from the menu,the Amiga will ask you to insert Workbench2.0
disk,don't worry the Amiga has to find the Copy Program within your
Workbench program. If the Disk Copy process is going to take 5 or
more disk swaps,a box will appear telling you,just click on the
Continue Button. When using the single Amiga's Disk Drive,the Amiga
will read part of the disk and then after a while ask you to put the
destination disk,so it can copy the infromation it has taken from
source disk and copy it to the destination disk.
**********************************************************************
* IMPORTANT: ALWAYS WAIT UNTIL THE DISK DRIVE LIGHT IS OUT BEFORE *
* REMOVING DISKS. THIS APPLIES WITH ANY SOFTWARE YOU ARE *
* USING. *
**********************************************************************
After a few disk swaps,the copying process will be finished.
If,for example you have copied the Workbench Disk,your previous
blank disk should now be called copy_of_Workbench2.0 .
You obviously don't want the words copy_of on your disk,so rename
the disk using the Rename menu item. (See Below)
You should always keep your disk WRITE-PROTECTED once you have
finished copying & renaming.This means that you should move the
plastic tab over so you can see a gap through it (at the top of the
disk).This will prevent any further information from being written
to the disk or removed by accident, (Same principal as a Video
Cassette Tape).This especially prevents a Virus from another disk
(if it's present) being transferred your disk.
Rename - Use this item to change the name of an Icon. Select the Icon and
then choose Rename from the menu. HINT:If you use the Cursor Keys
(The 4 Direction Arrows to the right of your main keyboard) to
move the blue box to where you want it to start deleting & then
use the backspace key (Above the Return key) to delete what you
don't want,it saves you having to type out the whole lot again.
Also comes in handy if you have created a disk called My Data and
it becomes full,you can Rename it to My Data 1 so you can start
another disk called My Data 2, My Data 3 etc.
Information - First select an Icon and then choose Information from the
menu.This will give you information about the chosen Icon.
You will be presented with a box with these catagories on it:
name,image,size,stack,last changed date,script,archived,
readable,writable,executable and finally deleteable.
What does all that mean?
NAME gives the name of the disk and it's description (whether
it's a Disk,Drawer,Project,Trashcan or Tool Type).
IMAGE shows a Picture of the Icon and is displayed in the
centre of the screen (Below it's name).
SIZE shows the number of blocks & bytes that the disk,project
or tool uses. (This doesn't apply to drawer icons).
STACK is the amount of memory reserved for a specific tool.
(Does not apply to drawer or disk icons).
LAST DATE CHANGED tells you the date that particular Icon was
created or the last time it was changed.
SCRIPT: If this is selected & the program is executed
through the shell,it will run as a text file of AmigaDOS
commands.
ARCHIVED: This is set by some backup programs to let you
know that a file or directory has been saved or Archived.
READABLE: If this item is selected,you can read or access
the information in a file.
WRITEABLE: If this item is selected,you can write information
to the file.However,if the item is not selected (No tick in
box) you cannot make changes to the file. For example,if you
make the file readable and not writeable,you can read the
files but you can't change them in any way.
EXECUTABLE: When you select this item,you can execute the
project or tool.
DELETEABLE: When this item is selected,it makes the tool,file
etc. able to be deleted.If you deselect this item (No Cross)
this makes the file exempt from deletion (You can't delete
it).
Snapshot - This item saves the positions of all currently selected icons
on disk.
UnSnapshot - If you made a mistake when positioning the icon(s),just select
the icon you want to put back in it's previous position,and
select Unsnapshot.
Leave Out - This item allows you to move an icon out of it's original
Window and into the Workbench Window.Only the Icon moves to
the Workbench window,the files and directories remain in their
original windows from where the Icon was taken from.
Put Away - After using Leave Out,you can return the Icon to it's original
drawer by choosing Put Away
Delete - This item lets you erase files and their Icons.Once you delete an
Icon & File you cannot get it back.
Select the Icon you wish to delete,then choose Delete from the
menu.A Requester Box appears warning you about that you can't
get back a deleted item. Choose OK if you wish to delete & Cancel
if you've made a mistake. You can't delete a Disk Icon or the
Trashcan Icon.
Format Disk - If you put a new blank disk in your Amiga,you will get a disk
icon with DF0???,DF1??? Or DF2??? at the bottom of the disk
icon (Depending which drive you have the disk in).
The reason for this is that the drive does not recognise the
disk as an AmigaDOS disk.So you can use the disk,it must be
Formatted for AmigaDOS.
To Format the disk: Put the disk in any drive,select the disk
icon and select Format Disk from the menu.Even if the disk
is in the drive already,a Requester Box appears,allowing you
to switch disks (if you need to),press Continue to proceed.
If you Format a disk with Data on,make sure you no longer
need this Data,as when you format a disk,you lose all the
previous information. The Requester gives you 3 options -
OK, OK-QUICK & CANCEL. All Amiga 3.5" Disks have 80 Tracks on
them - numbered 0-79. The OK Button will format all 80 Tracks
the OK-QUICK formats just the Root Block Track and the Cancel
Button ceases the formatting process. The OK Button is more
thorough than the OK-QUICK Option but OK-QUICK is much
quicker.
Empty Trash - I explain about the Trashcan use in the Windows section.
What you do with this, is you select the Trashcan Icon and
choose Empty Trash from the menu and this deletes all the
contents of the Trashcan.
Row 4 Under the Tools Heading
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Reset WB - What it says really.If you've had Icons & Drawers out and you
have finished using them,select Reset WB and it will reset
your Workbench Screen.