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Title: How To Open Shell At Currently Active Window Path With OS3.x?
Post by: fishy_fiz on October 30, 2011, 03:09:01 PM

The topic pretty much says it.
It's a feature I got used to pretty quickly using AROS and I really miss it while using os3.x. Can anyone tell me if its possible please?  
So far Ive considered writing a small program that's launched with shell-startup, that finds which window is active using window flags or similar, but can a full path be read that way?

Ideally Id prefer to keep it "cleaner" and not require an external program (or use something pre-existing), but if need be I dont mind doing it this way.

Can anybody offer any input here please?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: How To Open Shell At Currently Active Window Path With OS3.x?
Post by: Lizard on October 30, 2011, 03:21:17 PM

a sort of workaround could be this tool from aminet: http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/AppCon

Scalos has an option where you can define context menus, but this doesn't exist for OS3.x iirc.

Title: Re: How To Open Shell At Currently Active Window Path With OS3.x?
Post by: matthey on October 30, 2011, 03:56:43 PM

With AmigaOS 3.5+, it's possible to use the Workbench.library ARexx interface to get the currently active window name using "GETATTR WINDOWS.ACTIVE". NEWSHELL does not support a path option so the FROM option with a temp script that is built on the fly containing a NEWSHELL and CD command would be necessary. ToolsDaemon or similar could launch it all with your favorite hot key.

Title: Re: How To Open Shell At Currently Active Window Path With OS3.x?
Post by: Lizard on October 30, 2011, 04:02:30 PM

such a script could be very small like this:

.key DIR

cd
newshell