Short: Patches for ToolsDaemon to work with OS 3.9 Author: Mikolaj Calusinski Type: util/boot Version: 2.2 (45.005) Replaces: util/boot/ToolsDaemon22.lha Requires: KS V37+, original ToolsDaemon 2.1a package Architecture: m68k-amigaos Fourth edition. Urgh, while fixing things I've made a very stupid typo which completely disabled hotkeys. Thanks to Gregory S. Donner and Andreas Kürzinger for bugreports. Sorry guys. PROBLEMS: --------- There are still some problems/incompatibilities but they all are caused by bugs in workbench.library V45.127: - some menus may not be layed out properly (especially rightmost ones) - parts of them tend to be displayed beyond visible area of the screen - there are memory leaks when reinstalling menus: 58 bytes for each added menu title and 82 bytes for each submenu; ordinary menu items are not affected - installing/uninstalling menus is SLOW and it becomes DEAD SLOW for larger scripts. So folks *DO NOT* try to make menus with 63 items, each consisting of 31 submenus. No, 68060 won't help you here. ;) - if you load your WB with '-debug' switch, you can still add 27 of your menu titles even if this gives you illegal overall number of entries (32) for the screen. The last one will not be selectable of course. All of these bugs have been reported to Olaf Barthel and some of them *probably* will be fixed for BB2. Do not ask me when, though. * These patches fix ToolsDaemon 2.1a, written by Nico François, to take advantage of V45 (OS 3.9) Workbench API. Users of older Workbenches may find this update interesting too as I fixed a couple of annoying bugs like wrong pen selection for menus on deeper screens, etc. You will need the original ToolsDaemon V2.1a files, which can be found on Aminet: util/boot/ToolsDaemon21a.lha. This patch is freeware. No warranties: it works for me but 'your mileage may vary'. ;-) ****************************************************************************** NOTE: For proper operation you have to patch ALL three files: toolsdaemon-handler, main ToolsDaemon exe and preferencres editor ToolsPrefs! Users of OS 3.5: be warned that ToolsDaemon 2.2 will NOT work under workbench.library V44, revision 1511 or higher (ie. BoingBag2/2a)!!! This is due to only partial support of new API in these revisions which is not sufficient for ToolsDaemon. You will need original workbench.library V44.1414 or V44.1479 from BoingBag1. Or - better - upgrade to OS 3.9. ****************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: 1. Unarchive this package to T: directory 2. Copy following three original ToolsDaemon 2.1a files: 'ToolsDaemon', 'ToolsDaemon-handler' and 'ToolsPrefs' to T: directory 3. Open shell, cd to T: and type: 'spatch ToolsDaemon' 'spatch ToolsDaemon-handler' 'spatch ToolsPrefs' 4. Copy files with '.new' suffix over originals: 'copy ToolsDaemon.new TO SYS:WBStartup/ToolsDaemon' 'copy ToolsDaemon-handler.new TO L:ToolsDaemon-handler' 'copy ToolsPrefs.new TO SYS:Prefs/ToolsPrefs' 5. Enjoy (if you find any bugs, please contact me: bloelle@priv.gold.pl) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks to Olaf Barthel for sending me up-to-date autodocs of V45 wb.lib. BIG thanks to Darek whose script helped me to spot cleanup bug. ToolsDaemon package is Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico François spatch is Copyright © 1992 SAS Institute, Inc. ****************************************************************************** * * * Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program's archive * * containing the executables and documentation for non-commercial purposes * * so long as the archive and its contents are not modified in any way. * * * * This program may not be distributed for a profit. * * * * This program is not in the public domain. * * * ******************************************************************************