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- !WhichDisc
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-
- PLEASE NOTE: This application is © B.D. Marsden 1994 and as such must not be
- altered in any way. However this version has been released in the public domain
- and may therefore be distributed to as many people as you wish so long as
- nothing is changed in any way, shape or form to the application and the files
- within it and no charge is made for any distribution (except that for the media
- upon which this application be placed).
- DISCLAIMER: I cannot accept any resposibility for any loss of work in any way
- due to the use of this application on its own or in conjunction with any other.
-
- Brief Synopsis:
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- WhichDisc is one of those little utilities you will either need occasionally or
- never need at all. It basically tells you which disc is in a drive (which drive
- it looks at is configurable if you happen to have more than one) or if there
- isn't one. That's it really. I write it becuase I tend not to put labels on my
- discs but do title them correctly. Hence the only way of checking to see which
- disc is which is to click on the drive icon... far from automatic.
-
- How it works:
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- WhichDisc produces a small window which can be moved around by dragging the
- window (but don't drag on the drive sprite - see later). In this window is the
- drive which the application is looking at at the moment plus the name of any
- disc inserted in that drive. At the moment the drive is checked after a certain
- period of time which is configured by using the 'Poll Time' option on the menu
- which can be brought up in the usual way over the window. A value of 0 means
- that the drive is never checked. However, at all times the drive can be checked
- immediately by clicking on the drive sprite in the window.
- The currently selected drive can be changed using the menu (but only if you
- have more than one drive) and the current setup can be saved. This saves the
- current drive, poll time and window position settings.
- The application supports the DeskBoot protocol and will also detect whether you
- have your machine set for 3D windows/icons automatically. If, when running, it
- produces 2D windows and you want the 3D ones run Toggle3/2D which is in the
- application's directory and rerun WhichDisc.
-
- Problems/Bugs:
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- • Running more than one WhichDisc at a time and then attempting to quit
- one causes a major crash. Don't know why (yet). It seems to be a common
- occurence with all applications I write at the moment so there must be an
- identical bug in everything. Can't seem to find it though....
-
-
- Things to do:
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- • Allow more than one window (and hence more than one drive) displayed by the
- same application
- • Sort out a faster and more reliable detection system that will spot that the
- disc has been changed by what is going on around RISC OS. Tricky, but very
- important
-
- Addresses e.t.c.
- ----------------
- If you have any ideas, donations (always welcome) or happen to find any bugs
- (in which case I need to hear from you NOW) I can be contacted as follows:
-
- Snail Mail: During term time: Clare College
- (until June '96) Cambridge
- CB2 1TL
-
- Otherwise: 85 Northcote Rd
- Bramhall
- Stockport
- Cheshire
- SK7 2HF
-
- E-Mail: All the time: bdm1001@phx.cam.ac.uk (until September '95)
- OR bdm1001@hermes.cam.ac.uk (until June '96)
-
- I hope the program is some use to you!
-
- Brian D. Marsden (9/6/94)