Save Filer window positions from the Desktop.
Since the demise of the Save Desktop option in the Task Manager menu under RISC OS Select, it is no longer possible to get a list of the Filer window positions. Even under earlier versions of RISC OS, saving this file just for the *Filer_OpenDir commands was a contrived thing to do. GetFiler is a solution.
GetFiler loads on to the icon bar in the normal way. Clicking Select on its icon opens a save window allowing an Obey file containing *Filer_OpenDir commands for all of the open directory viewers to be saved.
GetFiler consists of a collection of un-tokenised BASIC, which must be assembled using the SFTools build environment. It will be necessary to have suitable Linux system with a working installation of the GCCSDK to be able to make use of this.
With a suitable build environment set up, making GetFiler is a matter of running
make
from the root folder of the project. This will build everything from source, and assemble a working !GetFiler application and its associated files within the build folder. If you have access to this folder from RISC OS (either via HostFS, LanManFS, NFS, Sunfish or similar), it will be possible to run it directly once built.
To clean out all of the build files, use
make clean
To make a release version and package it into Zip files for distribution, use
make release
This will clean the project and re-build it all, then create a distribution archive (no source), source archive and RiscPkg package in the folder within which the project folder is located. By default the output of git describe is used to version the build, but a specific version can be applied by setting the VERSION variable -- for example
make release VERSION=1.23
GetFiler is licensed under the EUPL, Version 1.2 only (the "Licence"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the Licence.
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the Licence is distributed on an "as is"; basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.
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