A downloadable tool

Old Blue Workbench is a Workbench replacement for Amigas running Kickstart 1.3 written by Mats Eirik Hansenwith the following features:

  • Enhanced menus similar to Workbench 2.0.
  • Enhanced Workbench window and drawer windows with support for:
    • Window menu and Icon menu as context menus.
    • Lasso for selecting multiple icons.
    • Default icons for showing all files and drawers.
    • Arranging icons by name or type.
  • Browser windows for browsing the file system.
  • Enhanced Info windows with support for changing icons and swapping their colors.
  • User defined menus.
  • Docks with support for drag and drop of icons.
  • Support for launching tools at startup.

Requirements

  • Minimum 1MB of memory.
  • reqtools.library (version 38.390 for Kickstart 1.3 included).
  • iffparse.library (version 37.1 for Kickstart 1.3 included).
  • Default icons in ENVARC:Sys (included).

History

Version 1.0.1

  • Added a Use Default Tool Path setting in the Settings menu for setting how the path in Default Tool for project icons is used when searching for the tool.
  • Made the CLI created by LaunchDaemon when launching commands inherit the search path when LaunchDaemon was started.
  • Made LaunchDaemon use the search path when LaunchDaemon started as the search path when launching tools with a relative path. This affects icons with a default tool with a relative path.
  • Fixed an issue where a drawer/browser window reloaded the icon position when an icon was changed.
  • Fixed an issue where a drawer/browser window reloaded the drawer size and position when updating the window or changing between Show All Files and Show Only Icons.
  • Fixed an issue where the icon was not removed from a drawer/browser window when a file that is only an .info file is deleted.
  • Fixed an issue with context menus not showing when clicking the mouse’s menu button in the area of a drawer/browser window with negative coordinates.
  • Fixed an issue with Snapshot Window being disabled when a browser window was showing disk icons.
  • Fixed an issue with Close in the Window not being disabled for the Workbench window.
  • Fixed an issue where dropping a file or drawer icon did not copy the file or drawer to the disk.
  • Fixed an issue with executing commands failing when using standard CON: or NEWCON: handlers.
  • Fixed an issue with the disk icon being shown as part of the disk content if the Disk.info file was not capitalized like that.

More information
Published 9 hours ago
StatusReleased
CategoryTool
AuthorMats Eirik Hansen

Download

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OBWorkbench.lha 297 kB

Install instructions

The included installation script will copy the required files but some changes must be made to S:Startup-Sequence manually.

Old Blue Workbench requires the ENVARC: assign for locating the default icons so add the following toS:Startup-Sequence if it doesn’t already exist. 

C:Assign ENVARC: SYS:Prefs/Env-Archive

To launch Old Blue Workbench instead of the original Workbench when Old Blue Workbench has been installed in SYS:Tools/OldBlue replace the LoadWB command in S:Startup-Sequence with: 

C:Assign OldBlue: SYS:Tools/OldBlue
C:Run <NIL: >NIL: OldBlue:LaunchDaemon
C:Stack 8192
C:Run <NIL: >NIL: OldBlue:Workbench STARTUPDRAWER SYS:WBStartup SHOWSTARTUP

The STARTUPDRAWER argument specifies the path to a drawer with tools and projects to launch at startup. The SHOWSTARTUP argument tells Old Blue Workbench to show a window with a progress bar while launching these tools and projects. The STARTPRI tool type can be set for each of the tools and projects to control the launch order.

LaunchDaemon is a background task that is used by Old Blue Workbench to launch tools and commands. It makes it possible to quit Old Blue Workbench without quitting all tools launched by it

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