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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1641.0. "Adding icons and installing disks" by STAR::ROBINSON () Wed Aug 31 1988 14:50

     I'd like some information on setting up icons for programs 
     and/or "installing" a disk.
     
     I finally downloaded PACMAN87 last night and set up the disk
     as required. I typed in the required command from the CLI,
     
     > execute df1:s/startup-sequence 
     
     and had a grand old time. However, I know that my wife and and six
     year old son are going to want to use PACMAN too. I am sure they won't
     want to, or understand why they have to type the above command.
     "You don't have to do that on a Macinslosh", they might say.
     
     The PACMAN docs say you can "copy the appropriate files from your
     workbench disk and install the PACMAN disk" to make a bootable disk.
     This leaves me with two questions: 
     
     - What are the "appropriate files", and how do I install the disk
       so that it boots.                 ^^^ (OK. three questions ;-))
     
     - If I want to activate PACMAN by clicking on an icon, how do I set
     up that. I realize that this may be a RTFM, but I don't know which
     manual, PD software doc, or yet-to-be-purchased manual I should look
     at. I didn't buy the WB 1.2 CLI manual yet thinking that WB 1.3 would
     be out soon :-}. I do have the ARP manual, although I am not yet using
     ARP. 
     
     So what do I do, or where do I look for info? I am sure that knowing
     how to do this will be useful later too.
     
     Thanks,
     Dave R.
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1641.1XICONLEDS::ACCIARDIHeisenberg may have slept hereWed Aug 31 1988 15:1522
    
    XICON is a PD program (CBM is including it on 1.3) that can...
    
    1.  Execute any batch file when clicked
    2.  Directly execute AmigaDOS commands when clicked
    
    Here's how it works...
    
    You take any tool Icon and give it the name of the batch file to
    execute.  That's all.
    
    To execute AmigaDOS commands is a little trickier; you must add
    each command in the 'tool types' info requestor.  However, since
    ther is no corresponding AmigaDOS file for the icon, you can save
    any ASCII file with the icon's name.  (This is because Intuition
    will bitch if you click on an icon that doesn't have a file associated
    with it.
    
    XICON is floating about on the net somewhere; I'd try 
    MVCAD3::USER0:[AMIGA.ARC] first.
    
    Hope this helps.  Ed.
1641.2use INSTALL DF1: on that diskBAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonWed Aug 31 1988 20:5226
    re: .0
    
    It's been a while since I setup my PACMAN87 disk...
    
    "installing the disk" refers to using the INSTALL command,
    that writes info in the reserved first two sectors on the disk that
    will make the disk bootable.  Then you can insert it instead of
    the Workbench disk when you see the hand asking for workbench.
    
    As part of the boot process, it will execute s/startup-sequence.
    
    That catch is that the disk you built is now a workbench disk, so
    it needs to have certain files on it or they system will guru or
    have other strange behavior when you boot it.  I don't remember if the
    setup procedure covers what other files you need besides PACMAN87.  I 
    seem to recall that they left something out.  The easy way is to start
    with a copy of the workbench and just delete off enough files to let it
    fit on there.
    
    When you run it from df1: it will be going back to df0: for the
    workbench files it needs.  When you boot it, it must find those
    files on df0:
    
    have fun,
    -Dave
1641.3don't need xiconCIMNET::KYZIVATPaul KyzivatThu Sep 01 1988 00:1216
You don't need XICON for PACMAN87.

As .-1 noted, just take a copy of workbench and delete a bunch of stuff to
make room.  (Like all the demos, printer drivers, etc.)  Then put PACMAN87
into the top level directory.  (For pacman, this means various
subdirectories as well as the executable.  I believe the arc file has an
installation procedure which does all of these things.) Copy any tool icon
(e.g. CLI.INFO) to PACMAN87.INFO.  This should be enough to allow you to
boot the disk, open the disk icon, and click on the tool icon to run
pacman.  Use ICONED to change the look of the ICON to suit you.  (It is very
easy to make a picture of a pacman as an icon.)

I have been running a version set up this way for a year or so.  The family
has no trouble with it.

	Paul
1641.4thanksSTAR::ROBINSONThu Sep 01 1988 13:496
     As usual, all good information. Thanks Ed, Dave & Paul. 
     Even if I don't need XICON now, it sounds like a good one.
     I've been wanting a real reason to use ICON ED.
     
     Dave
1641.5BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonFri Sep 02 1988 18:1611
    re: .2
    
    the files that bit me were:
    
    libs/icon.library and libs/mathtrans.library
    
    The only other files I needed were devs/system-configuration
    and the c: commands used in startup-sequence
    
    have fun,
    -Dave