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What if you have typed Assign blah: "RAM Disk:blah/" Will your proposed feature stop at the space? At the ':'? at the quote? EIther way you do it, it doesn't really work. It's either a "select word" or a "select volume", in any case the use of such a feature is extreme...

@chris I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't use the Lisp-based installer because it's another (and quite strange!) language to learn, and I'd rather use that time for programming. Fair enough, but it's actually easier than it looks! Installing using Python would not help in this case, since I...

As you say, there are no real guidelines, beyond using the official (Lisp based) Installer... which many developers (including myself) don't use! It might be worth considering why that is (finding it too complicated to write scripts for is probably the main one), and then looking at whether the new...

salass00 wrote:

chris wrote:WAVE I have no idea about

My wave.datatype does support writing. I can't speak for the OS-included one though.

It's probably yours I have installed I don't think there is one included with the OS, is there?

Grand total of DataTypes I have installed that will create a blank DataType object in memory and attempt a write: FLIC GIFANIM WAVE WebP This was a "no data" test, so the save itself failed in all cases. FLIC does not support DTM_WRITE GIFANIM looks like it does, as I get a load of encoder...

And, to add to this, it looks like the DTA_BaseName tag of NewDTObject doesn't work, even when using the correct DTA_SourceType of DTST_RAM. Calling ObtainDataType(DTST_RAM, "DataType Name") and then passing that to DTA_DataType works fine. So, to write a file using DataTypes, you need som...

The second is probably more important than the first, the lack of any way to find out if a subclass supports writing in their native format might explain why nobody ever uses it. As far as I was aware (having played around with saving via datatypes & discussing it on Utility Base), AmigaOS 3.x ...

@Timothy

Thanks.

@aclogic

lowlevel.library is a wrapper for AmigaInput.library under OS4. If the AmigaInput keyboard driver isn't loading then lowlevel keyboard functions aren't going to work, as AmigaInput has no keyboard devices to read.

The test was with a USB keyboard.

The version number of Libs:AmigaInput/Generic_Keyboard.driver is wrong - it is v51.3, however AmigaInput only loads drivers of v52 and higher. Hence the Generic Keyboard driver does not show up in AmigaInput prefs and (unconfirmed that this is the cause but) the lowlevel.library keyboard functions d...

I have been playing around with datatypes.library's DTM_WRITE method, and it seems to me to have two main flaws: 1. When calling DTM_WRITE (or via SaveDTObject) the only option is to save to a file on disk. It would be useful to be able to save to a memory location, maybe one automatically allocated...