Hello Gunne,

you wrote:

> Ok, archive temporary removed again. Just got the information the icons included in the archive might be copyrighted.

> mk, Could you please check this ?

From L.A Yliniemi:

http://hem.fyristorg.com/layli

"2006-05-27 Removing iconset and skin for MorphOS"
"I have removed all files for MorphOS, there was copywrighted, then it cant be available for download."



I have removed this Icons also from me Filetypes Collection. A new Collection will published soon.

--
so long Mario

mk,

Ok, fine. Awaiting the new collection instead.

Hi all,

does anyone know what are files like "fastppa" or "filepanel" etc. which are located in prefs/env-archive/mui are for and how to use them.

Are there any further features which can be defined with such text files? Perhaps a list is somewhere available...

Regards

Christoph

Maybe a stupid question...
I am running morphos 1.4.5 with ambient 1.43
This already has build in mimetypes..right.
At least it automatically dearchives .lha files on dubbleclick.
But I also want to get the same behavior with .lzx .rar etc.
How do I get this going?
I tried with settings in mimetypes for mp3 audio to startup songplayer.
Songplayer starts up nicely but no song in the programslist to play what ever I try.
Any tips..newbie style?

To listen mp3 with Songplayer after double click
write something like this in Mime Prefs you have
to add %sp

Work:Sound/SongPlayer/Songplayer %sp

;-D

> amiga4001

> But I also want to get the same behavior with .lzx .rar etc.
> I tried with settings in mimetypes for mp3 audio to startup songplayer.
> Any tips..

http://morphosambient.sourceforge.net/dl/Filetypes20061027.lha

included unzip, unrar etc.

included voodoo-X Version 2

included startups/actions (menue, doubleclick, dragndrop)

also for much Player (also songplayer), Viewer, Editor, Programm and much much more

included also a installer-script

hint: If necessary then adjusting Paths for your installed applications in WBStartup/FileTypesPath with a Texteditor!

[ Edited by mk on 2007/1/26 8:13 ]

Thanks,
Is working very nice now.
Only mp3 music ain't responding.
I can set what I want it keeps going to the internal player off ambient.

You have to edit audio/mpeg in mime prefs to override default action set by recognition.db.

> amiga4001
> Only mp3 music ain't responding. I can set what I want it keeps going to the internal player off ambient.

1.) You can play mpeg (mp3) without modify the filetypes:

* at doubleclick:
- with internal player

1.1)

- if you have me filetypes packet installed
- if you have the calling application (here: Songplayer and/or AmigaAmp, Kaya, AmiNetRadio) installed
- if you have (if necessary) in WBStartup/FileTypesPath adjusted (with a Texteditor) the path where this application installed

* at (context) menu (mouse over (mpeg) file, right mouse button):
- with AmigaAmp
- with Songplayer
- with Kaya
- with AmiNetRadio

2.) To modify doubleclick action (for mpeg/soundplayer) open:

- ambient-menue /ambient settings
- mime
- audio
- mpeg

- Play with ambient...
- modify Event Type to "Menu"
- ok

- Play with soundplayer.rexx...
- modify Event Type to "DoubleClick"
- ok

- ok
- save


[ Edited by mk on 2007/1/28 9:24 ]

Thanks! Now all is working.
Didn't know about the right mousebutton menu..nice

Two things:

Has anybody had stability problems with the filetypes pacakage? My system begins to act wierd after I install the package.

I use AmigaAMP as my Mp3 player. When i doubleclick a Mp3 file it opens and plays nicely the only problem is that as long as AmigaAMP plays I can't close the window where the Mp3 file was!!

/me sings "Sooooongplayer.. Soooooongplayer!"

And /me shouts run!! run!!

(use run to detach amigaamp process, as window is put to sleep until command has returned)

The Run command did the trick!

Thanks!

Quote:
Wow! Where was that hidden all these years? Is it an internal beta version?

I've been reading the FAQs here, and also some messages over "www.ambient-desktop.com", and I still have two questions:

1.- How to open an Ambient window from a script?
2.- How to make Ambient's windows remember its lister mode preferences?

Is there anything anywhere like an "Ambient Manual"?

Quote:
do path:to/drawer
Quote:
Does snapshot work?

1. The full qualified rexx command to open a directory is:

loaduri scheme://path?arguments [NEWWIN] [VIEWID=x]

where,
- scheme can be file or devices.
- path is your wanted path
- arguments are top (-1 means under mouse), left (-1 means under mouse), width, height, view (list or icon), mode (all, icons, thumbs).

So for instance, loaduri file://datas:pictures?view=list&mode=thumbs&top=-1&left=-1&width=640&height=480

2. If you snapshot a directory that has its own icon, view mode (list/icon) will be stored in that icon, like workbench. Due to the way navigation works, if you're already in icon mode, a window will only switch to list mode if you open it in a new window (so it works for snapshot partitions for instance).

Also, when you snapshot a directory in list mode, additional information such as icon size, column order, hidden columns,... is stored in envarc:ambient.data for the given path (even if there's no icon for that directory).

An ambient manual is something needed, indeed. In the meantime, feel free to ask questions. :)

Exactly what I needed! Thank you very much. I wouldn't mind compiling something like an Ambient manual, even if Ambient is always under constant changes. I would need a starting point, is there anything documented somewhere?
Nevertheless, MorphZone is the place to ask! It's a pity that all this precious information is not organized, so same questions pop up again and again.
I will now try to apply these new knowledges to my MorphOS, and will come back soon with more questions!

jcmarcos

A guide or tutorial of Ambient is very much needed. That would be cool

magnetic

I have a new question for you Ambient guys: Is there a listing of variables passed to the MIME actions?
I know that the "%sp" variable holds the full path for the selected file. But I need the filename alone, and perhaps also the filename without the extension (or is there a way to trim it out?).
Finally, what happens if there are several files selected? Is there an array of variables somewhere?
I was attempting to add an action for WAV files, called "Send to player device as MP3".
Thanks to "CDDA device handler" (great software!), I'm able to have tracks in a regular CD as WAV files. Then, with "lame", I'm able to create the corresponding MP3 file wherever I like. But I'd like to know if I can do the same for several files at once.
A bonus would be to ask the user for optional file names, instead of "Track01".

The possible options are described in the MIME type editor in the action text field's quick help bubble.

Group actions started to work in the very latest beta. AFAIK Ambient checks the types of the selected files, and displays the common filetype's actions. Maybe the only way to do what you want is to do it for every file seperately.

But let Fab tell us that I'm right or wrong :)


[ Edited by GK_LKA on 2007/3/15 12:47 ]

Indeed, kiero added recently the possibility to process all selected files from contextmenu action. The actions only appear if the entries have the same type, or at least the same mime family. Then, depending on your needs, action will be either applied sequentially to each file, or applied to the list of all files if "merge uris" checkmark is checked.

As said previously, help bubble in command string shows available placeholders. In particular, you can get filename part with %sf. We can always add more placeholders, but if you need something really exotic, you can also just process it with a rexx script later. I did that to convert tiff to png for instance. For instance, to filter out extension, you could use something like :
parse var filename '"'sfilename'.'ext'"'



[ Edited by Fab on 2007/3/15 13:03 ]

Thankyou vert much GK_LKA and Fab! I think Ambient (at least the most recent version, which I've just downloaded) has the bits I need to have success.
About ARexx, I think I will need to start experimenting, I've never written a single line of code in this language, and its syntax has always looked pretty weird to me. Well, Installer syntax is even weirder!

I've already updated to Ambient "20070311", and I can't see that "merge URIs" option in the MIME action editor. Anyway, it's true that Ambient repeats exactly the action for every file.
But... I still have issues. First of all, arguments are strangely put inside quotes, even if I've checked the option not to do so. For example, if the action consists of this AmigaDOS command:

Code:

If the source file is named wops.txt, the resulting file in RAM: is "wops.txt".bak. Strange...

The second issue is that I'm unable to use the backquote (`) method in that AmigaDOS command. See, I want to ask for a filename in the command, like this:

Code:

I get an error that I don't remember exactly (sorry), but it's clear that the constructed string is no going into AmigaDOS exactly the way I want to. This last command works perfectly in a shell window, of course.
I guess I need to learn ARexx... Which is a pity, because the action I want to do does not really need anything beside AmigaDOS.