Short: Prefs window for starting OS prefs Author: Marko K. Seppänen Uploader: Marko K. Seppänen Type: util/wb Version: 1.40 Requires: AOS4 Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0 URL: http://www.m4rko.com/AMIGA Home Page --------- http://m4rko.com/amiga Preferences - 1.40 ================== Preferences is a program that shows a window with grouped icons for launching the prefs-programs found in "SYS:Prefs/" among others. You may see the snapshot(s) for examples how it looks. Supports Tooltypes and a number of languages. Note ---- This program needs the info/icon (info_dt) datatype to be installed and the system REBOOTED. If not please install it before, you can find it here: http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=datatype/icon/info_dt.lha Further, it is assumed that the RexxMast (ARexx) is up and running. Features -------- - Groups the AOS4.1 default Prefs-programs into six main categories. - Uses the same images as the current icons set. - Supports localisation. - Supports Console prefs in AOS 4.1 FE. - Possible to open the "Presets" WB drawer. - Possible to open the "Prefs" WB drawer. - Possible to open the "ENVARC:" WB drawer. - Amiga HELP key (Scroll-Lock) brings up the About window. Keyboard actions ---------------- - ESC key exits/quits the program. - Amiga HELP key (Scroll-Lock) brings up the About window. Languages / Translations ------------------------ - English - British-English - Dutch - Finnish - French - German - Greek - Norwegian - Russian - Spanish - Swedish HELP: If you are interested in translating and want to help out with a locale to your language, take a look in this thread (http://tinyurl.com/h4bbyh6 ) and post #2. If the language you have in mind and want to translate and it hasn't been translated yet, give me a shout in the thread :) Installation ------------ To install, just copy "Preferences" and "Preferences.info" to anywhere you like, and start the program from there. A tip, it becomes pretty nice if it's added to the AmiDock :) Tooltypes --------- CustomTitle = FirstTitleString BGColor = Background color in the form $RRGGBB in hex FGColor = Foreground color in the form $RRGGBB in hex TitleColor = Title (of each group) color in the form $RRGGBB in hex IconShadows = YES or NO MUIinPersonal = YES or NO GraniteInInternet = YES or NO Future features / TODO ---------------------- - An optional new group for 3rd-party-program preferences. - No icons (only text) tooltype. Changes ------- 1.40: (2016 Jul) - Fixed issue, mixed up language files. - Greek charset implemented and Greek translation by Anthony Iliakis added. - Russian charset implemented and Russian translation by Olga Wara (additional Ben Cato Malkenes) added. - Norwegian translation by Ben Cato Malkenes added. 1.30: (2016 May) - NOTE: Sorry that 3rd-party-program feature and Greek translation are not included in this update. They were meant to be but because they need some more time as they are not 100% finished yet (roughly 50%-80 done already) and I wanted to get this update out the door sometime as this update has dragged out quite too many nights programming time already and I need to move on to other programming tasks in the meanwhile. And I don't like leaving users to wait for too long on finished features. However, the plan is to get them both included in the next update :) - Implemented (optional) addition of MUI prefs into the Personal-group, you can turn this off by setting the Tooltype: MUIinPersonal = NO . - Implemented (optional) addition of Granite prefs into the Internet-group, you can turn this off by setting the Tooltype: GraniteInInternet = NO . - Implemented (optional) shadow to icons. (You can turn it off by setting the Tooltype: IconShadows = NO) - Implemented (a customizable) first string in the window title. (To set this use the Tooltype: CustomTitle = FirstTitleString) - Added transations, Dutch by Johan Banis, German by Thomas Blatt, Spanish by Enrique Mecklenburg and British-English checked by Severin. NOTE: Greek translation will be included in the next release (hopefully). - Implemented ToopTypes for background, foreground and group title colors. - Corrected all "Env-Archive" paths to "ENVARC", thanks Severin. - Swapped "Prefs/" and "ENVARC:" icons, so they become alphabetic. - Declared application information. (title, authors, $VER: and $EXTVER: string versions, identifier, copyright, and description). - A couple of other optimizations. 1.20: (2015 Nov) - Startup icon drawing optimized, approximatively 5%-15% faster now. - Added a different button state when clicking buttons/icons, suggested by Guillaume (zzd10h) Boesel. - Added ENVARC: button/icon, suggested by Guillaume (zzd10h) Boesel. - Added a new default program icon, (the old renamed as alt icon, in case someone still prefers to use that icon). - Added a menu with two items, About and Quit, for easier access. And also for showing theirs hotkey. - Now compiled to HW applet as well, suggested by Severin. - Included French locale by Guillaume (zzd10h) Boesel. - Retweaked the layout in the About window to fit more info. - Removed Install and Uninstall scripts, as they are not actually needed. (User may just copy "Preferences" and "Preferences.info" to where they like. 1.10: (2015 Oct) - Added Console prefs, only shows up if running AOS 4.1 FE (Update 8). - ScreenMode prefs moved to the System category. - Added the proper name (Info_dt) for the error message in case icon/info datatype is missing. - Fixed some minor "typos". - Compiled now with HW 6. 1.01: (2011 Jan) - Included Finnish locale by Janne Peräaho. - Fixed so locale tags can end with " (//)" as well. - Made About window a little wider. 1.0: (2011 Jan) - Pre-drawing with default icon turned off. - Some minor other stuff. Beta 1 (Alpha 3): (2010) - Added language detection and support for basic localisation. - Icon images are now centered with respect to their actual width and height. - Icon images wider than 64 pixels are down-scaled to 64 pixels. - Fixed a bug regarding loading icons without alpha channel. - Looks for the default icon ("def_file.info") in several places starting with "ENV:" followd by "ENVARC:" and then "SYS:Prefs/Env-Archive/". - The program is not terminated anymore if no default icon image is found, the image is simply skipped being rendered. - Clarified the output text in the Install script. - Added busy pointer during startup. - Completed the (previously not working) About window (mapped to the Help key). Alpha 2: (2010) - Added install and uninstall scripts. - Added a single group for the "Prefs" icon to open its WB drawer. - Added WB icon, in case the app is iconified. - The icons are rendered with the default icon prior to loading the native ones. - Added checks in (CLASSES: and DEVS:) if the "info.datatype" is installed. - A comprehensive update of the readme file. Alpha 1: (2010) - Initial release. Requirements ------------ - RexxMast (ARexx) started. - The Info/Icon (Info_dt) datatype installed and the system rebooted: It can be found here: http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=datatype/icon/info_dt.lha Author ------ Marko K. Seppänen Credits ------- Translations by Janne Peräaho, Guillaume (zzd10h) Boesel, Severin, Johan Banis, Thomas Blatt, Enrique Mecklenburg. Program icon derived from an icon from Martin "Mason" Merz. More credits, see in the Changes-section.