rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (12/03/87)
Here's a new PopCLI. Try it out, let me know what you think. If enough
people like it, I'll post the source as well. Try it will all of your
configurations . . .
So, why use this PopCLI?
- It's about 1K bigger in executable
- It doesn't automatically detach itself from the CLI, so you
have to `run' it, so
- It takes a lot more memory (22K when dormant)
- It doesn't run from the workbench anymore
Well, there's really a positive reason, but I leave it up to you to find
it. In this file are the docs and a uuencoded executable.
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* |_o_o|\\ Copyright (c) 1986 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved */
/* |. o.| || This program may not be distributed without the permission of */
/* | . | || the authors. */
/* | o | || Dave Baker Ed Burnette Jay Denebeim John Mainwaring */
/* | . |// Gordon Keener Jack Rouse John Toebes Doug Walker */
/* ====== BBS:(919)-471-6436 */
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
POPCLI III by John Toebes ) 1987 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved
235 Trillingham Ln, Cary, NC 27511
Hacked up by Tomas Rokicki; development release. Source will be released as
bugs are found and repaired.
Contributions to continue development of this and other fine products for the
Amiga should be sent to the Software Distillery at the above address.
Other Products produced by the Software Distillery are:
BLINK - the Turbo-charged Alink replacement
HACK - The Amiga port of the famous UNIX game
LARN - Another famous UNIX game
MEMWATCH - Protects your machine from random trashes
MAKE - A software development tool one shouldn't be without
KERMIT - The World renown file transfer protocol brought to the Amiga
ICONEXEC, SETALTERNATE, SETWINDOW - Icon manipulation tools
TSIZE - A short utility for determining directory sizes.
All of these are available on our BBS.
Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program provided both this
documentation accompanies the executable and that no charge is made for its
distribution.
POPCLI (pronounced POP-SEE-EL-EYE) is designed to solve two problems at once.
First it provides a simple way of starting another CLI at any time without
having to load workbench or exit whatever program you may be using. Second
it has a builtin screen saver mode that automatically turns off the Amiga
display when there has been no input for a given period of time.
Once POPCLI is running, you can use it to get a new CLI from whatever program
you are running by pressing Left Amiga and ESC at the same time. What this
does is to bring the workbench screen to the front and then start up a new
CLI window on the workbench screen. This is extremely handy when you start
a program from CLI and then find you need to do a CLI command.
The other function that POPCLI performs is to blank the screen for you. This
saves on the wear of the monitor phospher. It will do this for you
automatically any time that you have not pressed any key or moved the mouse
for a given period of time regardless of what has been written to the screen.
This is useful when you leave the Amiga on unattended so that you don't have
to mess with the brightness control or worse yet tunr the monitor off putting
wear and tear on its power supply. Furthermore it only takes a touch of the
mouse or any key on the keyboard to bring it all back.
Now it also does something slightly more interesting. I'll let you run the
program to find out what.
To use POPCLI, you need to execute the command:
run POPCLI <seconds> <key> <command>
Where <seconds> is any number of seconds after which the screen saver is to
go into effect. If nothing is specified it defaults to turning off the
screen after 300 seconds. (Five minutes) Note that it makes its decision to
shut blank the screen solely upon the absence of any keyboard, gameport, or
mouse input. Even if a program is printing to the screen it will shut down.
This is not a problem, to unblank the screen merely move the mouse or touch any
key (SHIFT or CTRL are excellent choices since they don't do anything).
<key> is the scan code of the key that you wish to act as the command
executer. By default this is the Escape key although you may set it to any
other key if an application you use wants to conflict with PopCLI's choice.
<command> is the command to be executed when the Left Amiga and ESC keys are
pressed simaultaneously. By default the command is
NEWCLI >NIL:
to bring up a CLI window in the center of the screen. Note the >NIL: on the
command to supress any output that the NEWCLI program may give. This is
important because at the time the command is executed, the original window
may be long gone. If you wish to have a CLI come up elsewhere on the screen
you can put the window definition in the command such as:
NEWCLI >NIL: CON:0/0/640/200/MYCLI
Which will open a CLI to fill the entire screen. POPCLI does no parsing on
the command, merely passing the ENTIRE string without any processing to
AmigaDOS.
If you wish to specify a command with POPCLI you must include the seconds
value followed by one or more spaces. Some valid commands are:
run POPCLI 200
run POPCLI 200 NEWCLI >NIL: CON:0/0/640/100/MYWINDOW
run POPCLI 10
run POPCLI 180 NEWCLI >NIL: CON:0/10/640/120/POPUP
Terminating POPCLI:
-------------------
Once PopCLI has been installed, you can terminate it with the command:
POPCLI QUIT
You can change the default interval by giving a number:
POPCLI 5 - sets the default timeout to 5 seconds.
This is handy when you want to blank the screen immediately. Setting the
interval to a very large number:
POPCLI 99999
Will keep PopCLI from blanking your screen.
Note that you can also use this to change the command that it executes or even
the default key. Setting the interval does not affect the command to be
executed.
Installing PopCLI:
------------------
To install a copy of POPCLI on your workbench, put a copy of POPCLI in your
C directory and edit the Startup-Sequence file in the S directory to add
a POPCLI command of your own taste.
Notes:
1) POPCLI blanks the screen by creating a one bit-blane lo-res screen in front
of all other screens and setting the background color to solid black. It
then turns off the display freeing the cycles for any program that might
be running.
2) Once the screen blanks, if the AMIGA is left undisturbed for 68.096 years
the screen may briefly flash back on for the next 68.096 years. I have not
taken the time to test this. If this turns out to be a problem, please
let me know.
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-tomcjp@antique.UUCP (12/04/87)
In article <795@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
<Here's a new PopCLI. Try it out, let me know what you think. If enough
<people like it, I'll post the source as well. Try it will all of your
<configurations . . .
<
<So, why use this PopCLI?
< [various kinds of backsliding deleted]
<Well, there's really a positive reason, but I leave it up to you to find
<it. In this file are the docs and a uuencoded executable.
Even the docs say "try it and see." I don't mean to throw wet blankets,
but I won't try it out without knowing why I should go to the trouble.
Especially since I already like the PopCLI I have now (good job guys!).
Maybe you could post a description in rot13, spoiler-warning mode, for
people who dislike surprises. For all I know, "something wonderful"
(remember that phrase?) may happen which I'd rather *not* have happen.
Thanks,