DrawerGenie
A downloadable tool
DrawerGenie is a commodity for Amiga OS that lets you add basic toolbars to Workbench drawer windows. These give you some simple DOpus-like functionality in Workbench, for example, defining a destination window and sending selected files to it, copying and pasting files, switching view modes, sorting files, packing/unpacking archives and more. File operations show a progress bar, are asynchronous and can be cancelled.
DrawerGenie is an entry into the 2023 Amiga Tool Jam in the Commodity category.
DrawerGenie requires Amiga OS 3.5 or newer. It was written using AmiBlitz and full source code can be found at https://github.com/daedalus2097/drawergenie
Version 0.8 is a bugfix release and is now available . It fixes crashes on startup in some situations and removes the requirement for jpeg.library and zlib.library.
Version 0.7 fixes a few things: Added support for user-defined toolbar graphics, the XAD unarchiver, transparent icon images, adjustable polling frequency, and fixed several bugs including archiving multiple icons into a single archive now works.
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Development log
- DrawerGenie v0.8 Hotfix!57 days ago
- DrawerGenie v0.857 days ago
- DrawerGenie v0.765 days ago
- DrawerGenie v0.4Nov 06, 2023
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Hello!
Just tried version v0.7 on OS 3.2.2.1. Gives me "Program Fails #80000020" when I try to run it. What could be the problem? Any ideas?
Hi :) There are a couple of nasty bugs in this release, and I'm so sorry about that! It was a little rushed and there are a couple of dependencies that shouldn't be there and an edge case that isn't handled well when upgrading from 0.4.
I'm working on an update that should fix the issues, will upload it tonight or tomorrow.
No problems! It's a great piece of software. v.08 works fine. Except for an error during installation when choosing to have DrawerGenie starting at boot. But I just moved it after, and everything works. Thanks! :-)
Yep, sorry about that. Hotfix incoming for the dodgy Installer script!
Thanks! No problem! Good work!
Neat stuff!
Will there be a version for 'Amiga OS 3.0 and OS 3.1' ?
I'm afraid not. It makes use of many features that are only available since OS 3.5. To work on 3.1 or earlier would need a very different approach and heavy patching of Workbench.
What about 3.2.x?
PS Leaving you some mock created by me as an source of inspiration for future versions ;-)
It should work fine on 3.2.x :) Despite the release numbering being lower, Workbench from 3.2.x is a newer version and is backwards compatible with Workbench from 3.9 and 3.5.
Nice mockup :) I think something like that is more in the realm of Lister from OS4, which implements the icon drawing etc. itself, and offers features like the path gadget. Perhaps someone can backport Lister to 3.2 some time... Nice icons though :) When I get back to working on it I'll implement the user-defined toolbars.
Cool! :-)