Which No Click Program?

[arkpandora]

@dannyp1

You might find more information in this thread.


@Matt_H

Thank you for educating me : I can't remember seeing anything of him in Europe, but up to not long ago I didn't even know who Britney Spears was, so he may just as well have been on prime time.

[melott]

I've been using 'NONCLICK' since the late 80's.
At the time a programmer friend told me it was the
best because of the way it did the drives. I just
took his word for it (he knew alot more than I did).
I been using ' NonClick ' eversince without any problems.
I dislike hearing the drives click. To my mind, it is just
wearing the drive out needlessly.

Mel

[bash64]

Uhh...what's wrong with the click?
It makes the Amiga the Amiga.
Try tapping your feet to it.
It's catchy.


Personally never used a no-clicker.
Would make me feel like something was broken.

I prefer the 'floppy' in the drive answer.
Software hacks tend to add up to 'too many chefs in the kitchen'.
 :-D  :-D  :-D

[Piru]

There's nothing hacky about it. The "noclick" functionality it provided by the OS itself, these programs just enable it. Observe:

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;/*
sc resopt link optimize optsched nodebug strmerge nostartup nostackcheck data=far noclick.c
quit
*/

#include <devices/trackdisk.h>
#include <dos/dos.h>
#include <proto/exec.h>

static void setnoclick(ULONG unitnum, ULONG onoff);

int main(void)
{
  int unit;
  for (unit = 0; unit < NUMUNITS; unit++)
  {
    setnoclick(unit, 1);
  }
  return RETURN_OK;
}

static void setnoclick(ULONG unitnum, ULONG onoff)
{
  struct MsgPort *port;
  port = CreateMsgPort();
  if (port)
  {
    struct IOStdReq *ioreq;
    ioreq = CreateIORequest(port, sizeof(*ioreq));
    if (ioreq)
    {
      if (OpenDevice(TD_NAME, unitnum, (APTR) ioreq, 0) == 0)
      {
        struct TDU_PublicUnit *unit = (APTR) ioreq->io_Unit;
        Forbid();
        if (onoff)
          unit->tdu_PubFlags |= TDPF_NOCLICK;
        else
          unit->tdu_PubFlags &= ~TDPF_NOCLICK;
        Permit();
        CloseDevice((APTR) ioreq);
      }
      DeleteIORequest((APTR) ioreq);
    }
    DeleteMsgPort(port);
  }
}


[dannyp1]

Thank-You Piru!  It seems that there are a lot of people out there that are probably running Windows 3.0 on their DOS machines because any improvements since then have been hacks of one kind or another.  Whether it's Microsoft changing the OS or somebody else they are all "hacks".  And if you think "Official Is Better" you'd better keep an eye on how many hacks get put on your OS automatically by Microsoft.

[redfox]

It has been awhile ...

If I recall correctly, I was using NoClick or QMouse from the Fred Fish disks.

---
redfox

[matthey]

Here is my 176 byte version...

http://www.heywheel.com/matthey/Amiga/NoClick.lha

Just drop the glow icon in the WBStartup drawer. Source in assembler included.

[darksun9210]

i use MultiCX.
its got lots of other options in there like mouse acceleration, screen/mouse blanking, black bordering, noclick, opaq window move/size, middle mouse button configuration, device blocking/hiding/writeprotection, etc etc. not sure if its OS3.x+ only

[Framiga]

matthey wrote:
Here is my 176 byte version...

http://www.heywheel.com/matthey/Amiga/NoClick.lha

Just drop the glow icon in the WBStartup drawer. Source in assembler included.

the one i use is smaller ;-)

NoClick  ... 160 ----rwed 30-Jul-02

[Piru]

noclick ... 136 ----rwed Tänään     16:25:35


Didn't even try much. It could be even smaller...

[Framiga]

hands up ... yours is smaller than mine then! :-)

[darksun9210]

:lol: this is what happens when you let geniuses in here! :lol:

[AmigaHeretic]

Get rid of the click?

I love it so much I turn it on as on option in WinUAE!!

[taunusand]

I use the program "shutup" from aminet :-)
It works fine for me.

I would not say that I love the clicking sound, I did not hear it when I used my Amiga with only floppy disks, there was alwas a disk in the drive back then :-)

If I want to hear it, I can always dig out my trusty old A500 :lol:

[matthey]

@Piru

My NoClick used to be about that size until I added Workbench support. I could have used an Iconx or start from cli in the icon but the Workbench support is a nice feature. I also took no shortcuts and made it as system friendly as I could. Not that I want to get in an assembler programming match with you. I use your NoClick module in Blizkick on a custom ROM I built with Remus. Works great and of course my NoClick program still works to toggle the clicking on and off. I also use your CMQ060 and SmartCrash. Thanks for the great software.

[Piru]

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noclick2                           152 ----rwed Tänään    20:41:42
With WBStartup support, 100% OS friendly.

:-D