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Offline mrknightTopic starter

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Trouble with Multiview and AmigaGuide
« on: September 12, 2013, 07:37:56 AM »
I installed Multiview and Multiview Preferences (2b_mv_os2.lha 2b_mv_prefs.lha) yesterday. I had to extract both archives to the same directory and using the assign command but I managed to install it. however, after opening a .guide icon with default tool Multiview I get the following error:

"Cannot open AmigaGuide.library! Using DEFAULT instead"

I installed AmigaGuide as found on AmiNet but I still get the same error. Now I'm lost. amigaguide.library is located in libs and the command amigaguide can be used from the cli. Have I missed something? Was inte installation of Multiview of Amigaguide incomplete?  And what is this DEFAULT?

Sorry if this sounds like a simple problem. Workbench is a new experience for me...

My machine is an A500 68010, 1MB CHIP, 8MB FAST, 4GB CF HDD
 

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Re: Trouble with Multiview and AmigaGuide
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2013, 07:57:52 AM »
I'm using Workbench 2.05 (37.71) and Kickstart 37.350.
 

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Re: Trouble with Multiview and AmigaGuide
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2013, 08:59:39 AM »
I'm not using the real Multiview, it's a replacement that I found at Aminet for WB2.04:
http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/2b_mv_os2

I did some more testing and one .txt file is using multiview as stadard tool. This file can not be opened and gives me the same error. It's like multiview can't find amigaguide. Maybe some settings? Or has the amigaguide.library not been registered or similar on the bootable workbench partition?

This is the amigaguide I installed:
http://aminet.net/package/text/hyper/aguide34

Good to know that WB2.1 has multiview. I might upgrade if I can't solve this problem. I see it as a chance of learning move about the Amiga OS:)
 

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Re: Trouble with Multiview and AmigaGuide
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2013, 05:31:20 AM »
I solved the problem! It turned out that there were no DEFAULT action set for OS2, only for OS3. I can give a detailed explanation if someone is interested just in case someone else have the same problem?

Strangely enough MV identified the file as a AmigaGuide database but still uses the action defined my DEFAULT to open it. In my case, DEFAULT was missing and hence the file couldn't be opened. But why does it say that amigaguide.library can not be found? It shouldn't even be aware of that tool since no action is defined.  don't understand the inner working of MV but it does work so so I'm happy.

Magnetic, I would do that but I never found MV for OS2 from Commodore. This replacement MV was all I found.

Thank you all for your help!