CLI size?

[Dagon]

Hi, how can I set the default size of AmigaShell? I know that this can be set as a tooltype on the CLI icon but I always open cli from the execute command shortcut so that I wont have to grab the mouse. It must be a variable on env:

Can anyone help me?

I always use rAmiga+E to open a prefs program, or start a cli and even to open the window of a dir which its path is very  deep and knowing by heart its path is faster doing it with my program openwin :-D
That`t one of the things that make my Amiga fun using it.
 
You can find it on Aminet under util/cli.
openwin.lha

Megadeth RuLe!!! :-D

[Thomas]

The default size of the window is hard coded. You could search the string in the executable with a hex editor and patch it.

But the better solution would be this:

create a small shell script in S: (lets call it NS) containing the command

newshell con:0/150//300/AmigaShell/AUTO/CLOSE

then set the S flag (protect s:ns +s).

Now you can open the execute window and enter ns for a new shell window. Even shorter than CLI.

Make sure that S: is contained in your path before LoadWB is called. Maybe you have to move the script to C:. Workbench is very restrictive with its path setting.

Bye,
Thomas

[blobrana]

Do you just need to change SHELL in the S: directory?

If so click on SHELL icon and goto `information` in menu.  You can add stack size etc. from there.

Have a look at `shell startup`, also in S: to change the size , font, colour etc...

[Rebel]

Thomas wrote:

The default size of the window is hard coded. You could search the string in the executable with a hex editor and patch it.

But the better solution would be this:

create a small shell script in S: (lets call it NS) containing the command

newshell con:0/150//300/AmigaShell/AUTO/CLOSE

then set the S flag (protect s:ns +s).

Now you can open the execute window and enter ns for a new shell window. Even shorter than CLI.

Make sure that S: is contained in your path before LoadWB is called. Maybe you have to move the script to C:. Workbench is very restrictive with its path setting.

Bye,
Thomas

Or you could do the same using the "Alias" command.  Add the following to your User-Startup :

Alias ns "c:newshell con:0/150//300/AmigaShell/AUTO/CLOSE"



Either this or Tomas's solution should work for you, and will also save typing! (ie type "ns" instead of "newshell")


Alternatively, I use Toolsdaemon to  launch apps from the menubar, and you can also assign a hot-key to each one.  (I use R-Amiga + / to bring up a shell window at a specified size and screen position.)

Toolsdaemon can lauch progs from either their WB icon tooltypes or from a cli command.  If you dont like Toolsdaemon there are 101 other progs that could give you the same hotkey functionality.

-Rebel

[Rudei]

write a script (or build the script into the icon) and use the command "winsize"

this will default the CLI to the entire screen size