~ October 14th 2023 ~
October 14th 1401: scuzzblog: Directory Opus - Configuring Buttons.
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I assume you have DOpus set up on the Amiga
DOpus 4 with the drives bottom left
From the menu click the 'Configure' selection
Next select Drives
These are your bank of five drives
Only one shows from the main window
To scroll through them you right click
More on that in a while.
I will now check the 'scuzz' drive
Clicking 'scuzz' opens this next window
Clicking the magnifying glass opens the
VOLUME or DRIVE window showing the mounted
drives on the computer. This can be very useful
when checking to see what drives are mounted
I Click Work and then find scuzz and click that
Clicking Work and then scuzz gives us the
Work:scuzz/ path which is correct
The search tool will place the directory path
into the listing. This then becomes the directory
for that button. The very upper area has a name
that you can edit to suit what ever you want.
The right hand colours are for the button colour
and the left the colour of the text to be used.
You must press 'RETURN' when you have edited the
text for it to appear in the top box
I close the previous window and save if I am happy
Now when I click the 'scuzz' button it opens that
directory or drawer in the pane selected. Either of
the left or right panes can be selected
The Drive selection list is obtained by
right clicking any of the bottom left buttons
This will scroll through all five banks of drive
buttons until you find the one you want
Or you can go to the Configuration menu again
and select to have the button banks as a slider
Now you have a slider to scroll through Drives
Note that the config files for DOPus are in
the DOPUS 'S' drawer. If you look you will see
other configs that I have acquired and downloaded
If you go on the Aminet site there are numerous
configs that you can try out. Be careful though
to save your original. You can load configs from
the main interface, but they will become the main
DOpus config if you choose to save as such.
Let's see if you have understood what I did
Lets change b494 to RAM
We click the magnifying glass to find RAM
or RAM disk
Don't forget to make sure you use the search
functions to find the exact directory you want
Next edit the words to say RAM and edit
the colours and font text if you choose
When you have edited the wording for the button
don't forget to hit return so it appears in
the top area. You can then change the colours etc
So with the button now set for RAM you can
say access directory T and place in right pane
and copy, extract, etc into RAM say from files
you have in the left pane. This is useful if
you have LHA files in Work say and want to extract
into RAM before moving them or using them
You will see buttons for Arc Ext, unaARChive and LHA
that I can explain in another tutorial for archiving
purposes. Also note that buttons have a folded corner
This gives a single button two functions. The left click
activates one and the right click the one that is hidden
The hidden buttons can be viewed from the Configuration
menu under Buttons and is the second bank shown
If you have copied your DOpus disk and are being
prompted for the floppy each time you use it, then
you need to create an ASSIGN in your user-startup
as I explained in a previous tutorial
DOPus 4 was released on CU Amiga cover disk 100
and I think this can be downloaded from the web
Hope that helps. Next time I will set up some buttons
and show how to edit the main drop down menu
