[Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager

Sun Nov 16 20:59:55 EST 2014

Nick, I forgot to mention, you cannot edit the fonts. I plan to do a font editor module in the future, but my priorities lie in getting the file I/O correct before venturing off into "pretty things". If it can't read a disk file right, it can't do anything else. First things first....
BTW... the fonts are NOT the standard OS9 font system, they cannot be edited with an OS9 font editor. I do have a crude basic09 editor that Mike Knudsen created the original font file with, but it's buggy as hell and I wouldn't let anyone try to edit anything with that monstrosity.
As for the colors... try 'o" (options menu), 's' (change Screen colors).
Also... try reading the text file... it's all there. There's a standard text file in the zip that will open in any text editor and a copy on the disk for OS9 editors. No excuses :-P
And Nick, did you notice the 28 line screens and not 24? And that's on a standard 640x192 screen. I can get more if I go to 640x200, and yes, OS9 will do that. But.... you have to make a new boot.... <laughing>
Try looking at the MShell site a you might know all this as it's all on the site as well as all the planned modules for MShell.
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/mshell---the-ultimate-os-9-gui

And to all who downloaded the current MShell, I have noticed a few problems that were not there in the previous version and I'm fixing them right now. I should have another version up in a bit with fixed routines. The problem seems to lie in the RSDOS copy routines. Actually, it's due to the fact I had reduced the amount of memory allocated to the graphics handler and its overflowing the stack when printing the overlays during the copies. I also left some "debugging" print statements in some of the PC file copy overlays. They don't hurt anything, but they shouldn't be there :-) 
I should have it fixed in an hour or so.

Oh, and for who ever mentioned the hitting <ENTER> to change the directories. The context menus are there because the right mouse button is tied to "switch windows" which is absolutely wrong and inhibits writing software to use both buttons. The context menus should be "right click", but since I can't do that, all actions have to be tied to left click. The <ENTER> key is MShell's equivalent to left click so it also brings up the context menus. The only exception is PC drive directories. Since DW4 doesn't allow "altering" the files, I cannot "delete", "select" or "create" a dir, so there is no need for a context menu there. Clicking twice (or hitting enter) on a PC dir will just change it.
I may add a "quick key" for immediate directory change in the future. <CNTRL><ENTER> maybe?

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager

Nick,
I've actually thought of using the hardware text screen, but I would have to 
write a "text mouse" routine. I tried that once with Sound Chaser and it didn't 
work. But I have alittle more knowledge on it since then.
The colors are just 2 color 640x192 mode which only uses 16k, but remember, 
hires screens do not come from the 54k workspace nor system memory (same in 
Basic).

I may "mess around" with a text mode soon, as screen refresh would be faster.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager

> It works!
>
> I did everything the same but used the line...
>
> dsave -s48 /sd0 ! shell -p
>
> what does "! shell -p" exactly do? Should it not work without this?
>
> Would the -s48 make the difference? I would have thought it work 
> without this too, just slower.
>
>
> Review...
>
> MShell is good. It is certainly better than Mvue. Haven't had time to 
> do a great deal of testing yet.
>
> A few questions..
>
> How does one edit the fonts and patterns being used?
>
> I assume it's a 2 color screenmode?
>
> It certainly beats all the command typing and is something the CoCo 
> OS-9 community should have had a long time ago.
>
> Because it doesn't used icons, I wonder if a well designed 80 column 
> 16 color text mode could have been used? (Faster, less RAM, more colors)
>
> Good work Bill.
>
> Nick
>

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