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- WBCtrl
- © 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
- WBCtrl is copyrighted 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht.
- All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
- donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is
- left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage
- caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the
- program(s) it describes.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.5 and
- 68020+ cpu.
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- WBCtrl allows you to control some undocumented features of
- the AmigaOS3.5 Workbench®.
-
-
- USAGE
- The program can only be started from shell, the following
- options are provided:
-
- MCM=MAXCOPYMEM/N/K,IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K,DN=DRAWERNOTIFICATION/S,
- G=GAUGE/S,R=REFRESH/S,MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH/N/K,Q=QUERY/S
-
- MCM=MAXCOPYMEM/N/K: will set the maximum number of bytes the
- file copy code will use. Some SCSI controllers (don't ask which:)
- are not able to transfer more 32k at once because of this the
- default setting is 65536 bytes (two buffers, each 32k).
-
- IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K: when set to FAST or ANY, wb and icon.lib will
- use fastram for imagedata (p96/cgx or fblit required!). Use
- CHIP for chipram. It's safe to use this option without p96/cgx
- as WBCtrl will check for an RTG system / fblit before actually
- performing the change. If you use fblit by Stephen Brookes,
- you should use ICONFAST instead of FAST to avoid problems
- with workbench.library. Last but not least WBFAST tells wb
- to use fastram for imagedata and resets icon.library to use
- chipram.
-
- DN=DRAWERNOTIFICATION/S: enable/disable drawer notification:
- "if enabled, Workbench will be notified of changes in every
- 'Show all files' mode drawer. Every time a notification arrives,
- Workbench will reread the drawer."
-
- G=GAUGE/S: disable/enable the Workbench volume fill gauges.
- Any open volume/root drawer window will *not* be updated. You
- must close them first.
-
- R=REFRESH/S: use this option in conjunction with G=GAUGE/S
- and WBCtrl will update the drawer windows for you.
-
- MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH: "icon.library has a built-in file name length
- limit that affects whether icon files are read and written.
- Currently, the default for this value is 25 characters. This
- is sufficient for an icon file name acceptable with the ROM
- filing system. This limit has two effects: if an icon file is
- to be written whose name would be longer than the limit,
- icon.library will silently abort the write attempt and pretend
- that the icon file has been written; this is done in order to
- avoid overwriting the original data file with the icon file.
- If an icon file was read that turns out to contain invalid icon
- data, another test is done in order to find out whether the file
- name was longer than the limit. If this is the case, it is
- assumed that the data was read from the original file rather
- than from the icon file. The library then pretends that the
- icon file was not found." (this was taken from the Autodocs,
- © 1985-1999 Amiga Int., Inc.)
-
- Q=QUERY/S: show current settings.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- Copy the program to your C: directory.
-
-
- HISTORY
- 1.0 first public release for os35 beta testers.
- 1.1 added REFRESH/S option.
- 1.2 internal release.
- 1.3 IMAGEMEMTYPE can be changed even without an RTG system
- now, when FBlit by Stephen Brookes is running. Extented
- IMT=IMAGEMEMTYPE/K option.
- 1.4 added MNL=MAXNAMELENGTH/N/K option.
-
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Please send bug reports and ideas to:
-
- Stephan Rupprecht
- Apfeldweg 1
- D44359 Dortmund
- Germany
-
- Send emails to
-
- stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de
-