Amiga refreshing (updating) windows

[amiga2000]

what was the Amiga os3.5/3.9 tool or commodity which lets you update a Workbench window by pressing the space bar?

somehow I uninstalled this feature, and I cannot remember how to get it back. It might have been one of the boing bag updated contribution files.

[FuZion]

Hi Amiga2000,

Try a program called 'AutoUpdateWB' (Probably on AmiNet).

This automatically updated without having to press anything. The only thing it doesn't seem to do is update png icons:

For example when you rename disk.png to disk.info.

In that case you have to close the window then reopen it to see the icon. Every other update is auto, even if you copy/delete etc in CLI.

FuZion.

BTW, @ Hyperion is this feature in OS4 or will we need a program like this?

[amiga2000]

yeah - thanks, that actually is also a feature in WBCtrl/WBC but I remember that I turned it off for some reason. That would be the ideal situation for refreshing windows, but I think it conflicted with something or slowed something down, I forget.

It turns out that the software which I had disabled (which lets you update by pressing the spacebar) was the script setkeyandmenu.rexx -- where is this from? I think it was a script from a larger set of scripts.

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