AmigaSYS 4 AGA settings?

[mingle]

Hi,

Just playing with AmigaSYS 4 AGA at the moment, but I'm having a bit of trouble locating the prefs/settings for things like the on-screen Workbench clock/calendar and also how to make the border/title of the active window a different colour from inactive ones (as in good old Workbench 3.1).

Oh, and does anyone know what the "ASYS4:" bar (under the "CHIP:" and "FAST:" RAM indicator bars) is for?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find any real docs for AmigaSYS, other than the installation HTML help files...

Any help or pointers appreciated!

Cheers,

Mike.

[MozzerFan]

Hi Mike,

The meters and menu on the right is a program called TinyMeter. The ASYS4: bar shows how much space is left on your system partition. To change the preferences you have to make a few changes. Goto the Prefs drawer and select show all from the workbench/windows menu. Now you can see the TinyMeter prefs program, but it needs a stacksize of 8192 to run. So start icon-edit and set the icon-type to tool. Save the icon in the prefs drawer as Tinymeter.info. Now goto the prefs drawer again, select the tinymeter icon and select icon-info from the workbench/icon menu. Change the stacksize to 8192 and save it. Now you can start tinymeter prefs by doubleclicking it. You can change the font-style by going to the compose list tab and doubleclicking on the clock items.
It looks like amigasys uses birdie to change the window borders, but I can't find nothing in startup-sequence, so I have to figure out where they can be changed. I'll keep you informed when I find out how to change them.

[MozzerFan]

Hi Mike,
Yep I was right. Amigasys uses birdie. To change the window borders you need to download and install BirdiePrefs. For some reason this program is not included in amigasys.

[mingle]

Hi Llyod,

Once again you've come up trumps! :-)

The only other thing I've been stumped with is how to change the font/date settings of the desktop/workbench clock. I hunted around for (I assume that it IS WorkbenchClock!) the program, but could only find the info file...

There does seem to be a lot of leftover/superfluous directories and stuff (I could be wrong!), which I might have to contact the developers about - to see what I should keep and what I can clean out.

If only there were some better docs for it... But it is still a VERY nice WB install!

Cheers,

Mike.

[MozzerFan]

The clock and date also comes with Tinymeter. Like I said in my previous post, start tinymeter prefs, goto the compose list tab and doubleclick on each clock item. There you can set the font-style.

[mingle]

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for the update and advice - TinyMeter is a very handy little app!

Cheers,

Mike.

[MozzerFan]

No Problem.
If you're looking for more documentation, look in the readme drawer.
There are loads of amigaguide files in there about various applications that are used in amigasys.