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AmigaMancer

Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Order of the Butterfly

Joined: 2005/8/25
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I'm looking for a way to close the Ambient screen or quit from it completely, (permanently or not) right before or after the execution of a big program, to free some memory. Is this possible?

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»2009/11/9 9:21

tokai

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

MorphOS Developer

Joined: 2003/2/25
Posts: 1289
From: binaryriot

Should be. Depends on how many applications are Lock'ing the screen though.

To quit Ambient itself:
SetENV AMBIENTQUITHACK 1 SAVE
(might work first after a reboot; not sure right now)

Then you just go to Ambient's "Ambient" menu and choose "Quit" (will not pop up a requester anymore; so be careful. :-)

)

If you need to do it from a script/ shell: "Break PORT AMBIENT" should do the trick. Maybe also requires a "WaitForPort AMBIENT LOOP 10 DISAPPEAR" if you immediately want to launch your application afterwards.

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»2009/11/9 10:17

AmigaMancer

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Order of the Butterfly

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There is not "quit" option in the Ambient menu. There is "shut down" which still pops a requester after i set the enviroment variable and rebooted.
The options that the requester gives are "shutdown" which does nothing, "reboot" which freezes my Amiga and cancel.

"Break PORT AMBIENT" also brings this requester.

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»2009/11/9 13:07

Henes

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

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Posts: 323
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Try http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/CloseWorkBench

»2009/11/9 13:51

AmigaMancer

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Order of the Butterfly

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Posts: 265
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CloseWorkbench works. Thanks.

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»2009/11/9 16:36

tokai

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

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Joined: 2003/2/25
Posts: 1289
From: binaryriot

Next time mention which Ambient do you use. Sounds like you're using some old Ambient from PowerUP 1.4 release.

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»2009/11/9 16:40

Motosampy

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Acolyte of the Butterfly

Joined: 2004/8/14
Posts: 133
From: Järvenpää, Finland

Setting this env variable does not bring any Quit option on Ambient 1.43 (10/10/2009)

»2009/11/9 19:50

AmigaMancer

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Order of the Butterfly

Joined: 2005/8/25
Posts: 265
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@Tokai
Quote:

Next time mention which Ambient do you use.

Ambient 1.43 (Thursday 31 January 2008)
I can't download a newer version from morphosambient.sourceforge.net because all nighty build links aren't working anymore. They lead to the "Czech PowerPC User Group" site instead of a tgz file.

Quote:

Sounds like you're using some old Ambient from PowerUP 1.4 release.

Yes. That's why i opened the thread in the PowerUP forum.

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Amiga 1200 user.

»2009/11/10 3:31

tokai

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

MorphOS Developer

Joined: 2003/2/25
Posts: 1289
From: binaryriot

Ah right, didn't noticed that. Aww. Well, morphzone usability strikes back. ;-)

BTW. nightly builds were just straight compiles from CVS. So if you have a SDK installed you should be able to build an Ambient yourself rather easily. Basically you just enter "make". Two issues could arrive: first you need a properly build png2c (ixemul version) and second if you don't have a compiler with AltiVec support you might need to disable Ambient's AltiVec support in the makefiles and the config.h's (for Ambient and it's sub-libraries). But that's easy, too.

Don't think anyone else will bother making new MorphOS 1.4 compatible builds (at least I don't ;-)

). So better do it yourself. It's really not that hard, just might sound scary! :-)

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»2009/11/10 6:16

tokai

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

MorphOS Developer

Joined: 2003/2/25
Posts: 1289
From: binaryriot

@Motosampy:

Right, it seems that this feature needs to be explicitly compiled in. I remembered wrongly that we had it enabled by default at some point.

See line 98 and following:
http://morphosambient.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphosambient/ambient/main.c?view=markup

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»2009/11/10 6:24

Andreas_Wolf

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Paladin of the Pegasos

Joined: 2003/5/22
Posts: 1558
From: Chemnitz, Germany

> I can't download a newer version from morphosambient.sourceforge.net
> because all nighty build links aren't working anymore.

You can get a version from March 2009 from geit's home server:

ftp://ambient:ambient@geitathome.dyndns.org/betas/Ambient/MorphOS_1.4.5_only/

»2009/11/10 12:22

AmigaMancer

Re: Is it possible to close the Ambient screen?

Order of the Butterfly

Joined: 2005/8/25
Posts: 265
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Cool. Thank you all.

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»2009/11/10 14:23

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