Scalos - General

[deadwood]

I cannot find on Scalos how to make the Native Menu "Gray" transparent (see screenshot).

On Scalos Prefs there seems to be nothing to change the background, maybe it's me who can't find it, any of you have any news about it ?

The menus are rendered by popupmenu.library - not part of Scalos but external project that Scalos uses. Maybe you can find a way looking for popupmenu.library documentation.

[deadwood]

@Deadwood

Unfortunately there seem to be no documentation about Scalos. Perhaps you see the constants in source code. I found "%p" for path to icon but there must be more of that, f.e. path to directory. It is needed for many context menues

You have to describe better what are you looking for. Perchaps add screen shots? I'm not familar with functionality you are describing.

[magorium]

@Deadwood

Unfortunately there seem to be no documentation about Scalos. Perhaps you see the constants in source code. I found "%p" for path to icon but there must be more of that, f.e. path to directory. It is needed for many context menues

You have to describe better what are you looking for. Perchaps add screen shots? I'm not familar with functionality you are describing.

I have to guess but i think OlafS3 is referring to the runcomand parameters... in which case:
%p = parameters
%w = directory path
%d = device-name
%% = literal percentage token

In case that is not what OlafS3 meant then the question becomes with plugin/module is used ?

fwiw: I have only seen the use of %p in the (custom) menu's.
PS: info based on SF project source(s)

[deadwood]

@magorium

Thanks for looking into that.

[OlafS3]

@magorium

Yes I meant that. I would like to use commands from C with parameters in menu so I need some placeholders for path to selected icon or similar. That is easy in magellan and I guessed something like that also exists in scalos. Unfortunately no documentation.

Typical what you need path to selected icon, path to directory where the file is. For that constants you can use.

It looks good what you wrote. Thanx. I will test it.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

@magorium

Yes I meant that. I would like to use commands from C with parameters in menu so I need some placeholders for path to selected icon or similar. That is easy in magellan and I guessed something like that also exists in scalos. Unfortunately no documentation.

I'm sorry why don't you use WBRun which among other things also runs the Tooltypes in the icon ?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I would like to report that with AROS Native, reference ISO (AROS-20190416-2-pc-i386-boot-iso), on Scalos if you try to do "Information" from both menus (see screenshot), Information does not work and the system becomes very slow.

On AROS Hosted Linux no problem, this makes me think that some library present in AROS-20190416-2-pc-i386-boot-iso creates questio problem.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I also noticed that on AROS Hosted, peripherals USB and CD/DVD are not mounted automatically as on AROS Native and Virtual Machines.

On Linux/Windows Hosted AROS do you have to proceed like on OS3 with some Mountlist?

[magorium]

I'm sorry why don't you use WBRun which among other things also runs the Tooltypes in the icon ?

Because WBRun is not sufficient for /all/ circumstances. I did write wbxcli with a reason (*)

(*) but to be honest, you can almost accomplish anything using tools like iconX or XIcon in case WBRun is not suffice.

[magorium]

I also noticed that on AROS Hosted, peripherals USB and CD/DVD are not mounted automatically as on AROS Native and Virtual Machines.

On Linux/Windows Hosted AROS do you have to proceed like on OS3 with some Mountlist?

Yes you have to add those manually.

For instance I use separate 'mountlists' for adding multiple host directories as it's own 'device'. Same for ISO files (although I usually use the host to access those).

More information about that is available on the wikibook in case you wonder how to do that. But feel free to ask in case you get stuck.

 Important note: Be careful when playing around with with real host devices, as you can seriously screw things up if you want.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

For instance I use separate 'mountlists' for adding multiple host directories as it's own 'device'. Same for ISO files (although I usually use the host to access those).

Mounting a CD/DVD should be simple just set up the right MountList, among other things you can use DiskImageGUI.

Riguarda USB sticks non go idea ho dato uno sguardo su wikibook e non ho trovato la mountlist, se hai una tipica mountlist già pronta mi semplificheresti le cose.

Important note: Be careful when playing around with with real host devices, as you can seriously screw things up if you want.

Here I think you are referring to any errors in parameters, I have mounted CDs thousands of times on my Amiga A4000, A1200 without ever having any problems, i also mounted a device that deletes data from CD/DVD "virtually"

[magorium]

Riguarda USB sticks non go idea ho dato uno sguardo su wikibook e non ho trovato la mountlist, se hai una tipica mountlist già pronta mi semplificheresti le cose.

A simple mountlist as shown on the wikibook.

For any other questions regarding off-topic discussions: open up another thread. Please stay on topic in this thread.

edit: fixed url.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I'm sorry why don't you use WBRun which among other things also runs the Tooltypes in the icon ?

Because WBRun is not sufficient for /all/ circumstances. I did write wbxcli with a reason (*)

(*) but to be honest, you can almost accomplish anything using tools like iconX or XIcon in case WBRun is not suffice.

I had recommended WBRun, but your wbxcli would also be great, instead of "%p "reported by OlafS3

[AMIGASYSTEM]

For any other questions regarding off-topic discussions: open up another thread. Please stay on topic in this thread.

Your link does not work you put a double "http", yes I open a thread because I want to understand Mountilist well, in my opinion I was not OT because to me mountlist was for "Scalos Hostes" direct boot without Wanderer !

[Mazze]

Nice to see that Scalos makes a comeback. I had it ported to i386 many years ago but an attempt to port it to x86-64 broke both i386 and x86-64. I haven't read all messages in this thread. The sort menu plugin needs to be ported from ASM to C.

IIRC Scalos has a command line option to fully replace Workbench/Wanderer.
The Theme: assign is used by both Wanderer and Scalos but I didn't have problems to use both at the same time.