
                             [1mDicePref V1.0[0m

                        © 1992 by [1m[33mJan Schroeder[0m


[1mWHAT IS DICEPREF ?[0m

  DicePref is the result of my first steps in Amiga-programming and C. In
  1991 i bought the Dice C-Environment directly from Matt Dillon at the
  Amiga 91 in Cologne. At first i steered Dice by ARexx, but i missed the
  intuitive interface known from the Amiga. So the idea for DicePref was
  born.

  With the Dice-startup-batchfile (Dice.sh) and DicePref you can steer the
  most important features of Dice. The switches are stored in the DCCOPTS
  environment-variable, the assigns and the object-files have their own
  environment-variables, which are used and set by the startup-file and
  DicePref. If you see a more comfortable way to give Dice the objectfiles
  etc. please let me know.

  In the upper part of the window you can switch different options, in the
  middle part you can choose the path for the assigns and in the lower part
  the files can be add, which shall be linked. Ok, the switch for 040 is
  not really necessary, but I added it for completition. The 040 will
  automatically switch instructions in his special ones, so this switch
  works like 000.

  If you select "USE" or "SAVE" the switches and the object-files will be
  stored and the assigns will be made.

[1mSERVICE FILES[0m

  Start your C-environment with the batchfile '[1mDice.sh[0m' or an other
  batchfile working by the same way to use the additional environment-
  variables for the paths modified by DicePref.

  To compile you should use a batchfile working like '[1mbin/make[0m',
  which adds the environment-variable DCCOBJECTS at the end of the -o
  switch. I didn´t see another - more comfortable - way to get the same
  result.

[1mBUGS[0m

  No bug known, but there is a behavior, which i couldn´t suppress: when
  i examine the path for the assigns a requester will appear, which asks
  for inserting the volume with the requested identifikation, when the
  assigns are NOT made already.

  I wanted DicePref to be variable, but i wasn´d able to identify the
  screen on which the actual window exists, so i helped me badly with
  searching TURBOTEXT or WORKBENCH or opening an own screen.

  Because of i found no way to set a system font for the DicePref-window
  alone i proove the screenfont for topaz 11 and open an own screen, if
  there isn´t the needed font (or screensize!).

  If you have any help or suggestions, please write to me!

[1mHOW TO START DICEPREF[0m

  From CLI      : Type '[1mDicePref[0m' and press return.

  From Workbench: Double-click on the '[1mDicePref[0m' icon.

[1mCOMPATIBILITY[0m

  DicePref needs kickstart 2.x ! It has been tested on a Golem 030/882
  6 MB board running at 14 MHz in an AMIGA 2000 B Rev 6 with 1 MB chip
  and XT bridgeboard, Golem SCSI II-controller with Quantum 240 LPS
  and Seagate ST 1096 N, Roßmöller 2 MB RAM-cartridge and a flickerfixer.

  If any problems encounter with other configurations then let me know.

[1mTHANKS![0m

  At first thanks to Matt Dillon for his C-environment.

  Many thanks to Henrich Deppenmeier, who supported me with Fish-Disks
  and his ROM-Kernel-Manuals (Version 1.1 ;-) and Klaus Bockrath for
  teaching me the C-basics. Thanks to the many other fish-supporter, too.
  Also thanks to Jan van den Baard for his GadToolsBox.
  And last but not least: Fred Fish.

Send [1mbug-reports[0m, [1msuggestions[0m, [1mcomments[0m etc. to:

              Jan Schroeder
              Metzer Str. 4
              4800 Bielefeld 1
              Tel. 0521/17 20 47

              or Pit@Genesys.zer.sub.org