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Tips
| Some Directory Opus tricks you might not know about, (or just missed in
your excitement).
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- You can temporarily hide drives on the Desktop by first selecting them with the
LMB and then holding down the shift key and clicking on them with the RMB.
- Holding down a shift key when you D'n'D a file onto a directory, (in name mode),
will cause it to act as if 'Drag into Sub-Directories' is enabled, (even if it isn't).
- Holding down the left shift and left alt when dropping one icon onto another
will cause the imagery to be automatically copied.
- Quick way to edit a toolbar button? Hold down the Alt key and click on the
button you want to edit.
- Programs that use the ixemul.library can often fail with a return code of 161,
(this is a bug in ixemul.library startup code).
Changing it to:
AmigaDOS Run SomeProgram
will prevent this.
- If you run Executive and Directory Opus then ensure that you have set the
Directory Opus tasks to NOSCHEDULE:
Task dopus_* NOSCHEDULE ABOVE
Task DO_LAUNCHER NOSCHEDULE ABOVE
- An ARexx Tip
There's no point checking to see if AddLib added a library to the system, eg.
If ~AddLib('rexxsupport.library',0,-30,0) then .....
because AddLib will add the entry even if the library doesn't exist and will always return
a successful completion even if it wasn't.
Just do this if you want to check for and add a library:
If ~Exists('LIBS:rexxsupport.library') then do
say 'Library ''LIBS:rexxsupport.library'' not found!'
exit
end
else call AddLib('rexxsupport.library',0,-30,0)
- If you find that the DOpus ARexx 'command' command doesn't seem
to work, it's probably because the listers in question are in state BUSY.
You'll need to set the listers to IDLE state.
lister set <handle> busy 0
Or have the script run asynchronously.
- Listers locking up, (usually complete GUI lockup), when they automatically update?
The key word was automatically, if the lister updates when it's re-activated then
don't look here.
If this is happening, the most common cause is you are using the once experimental
but now unsupported 'dopus/DOSPatch' environment variable. If this variable is
set, remove it from ENVARC: and ENV:, then restart DOpus.
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