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Doug Clark:
New installation of AOS 5.0.6

Installed xWorkPlace 1.0.13 which I got from Netlabs. The Add Widget option on the xCenter popup menu is missing.  Which I was using to add the Removable Media Widget.

So a couple of questions:

1) Where are the removable widget files on the AOS installation media located and/or how do you install? 

 I asked this question on a different topic previously and the suggestion (thank you Andreas Schnellbacher) was to take RemMedia.dll, etc. from another AOS machine.  Which I did at that time, but I don't remember how they originally got on the source machine.  (For this installation I copied them from the other machine to c:\sys\apps\xwps\plugins\xcenter and used the xCenter Create Widget option - then tried to use the Add Widget menu option)

2)  The Netlabs page for xWorplace says "Rich [Walsh] compiles special versions for ArcaOS and the current official version"   Are those "special versions" just  eWorkplace, or is there an AOS specific version of xWorkplace?

Thanks

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Doug

--- Quote from: Doug Clark on October 06, 2021, 07:00:44 pm ---1) Where are the removable widget files on the AOS installation media located and/or how do you install? 

 I asked this question on a different topic previously and the suggestion (thank you Andreas Schnellbacher) was to take RemMedia.dll, etc. from another AOS machine.  Which I did at that time, but I don't remember how they originally got on the source machine.  (For this installation I copied them from the other machine to c:\sys\apps\xwps\plugins\xcenter and used the xCenter Create Widget option - then tried to use the Add Widget menu option)

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Isn't your picture showing the "Create New Widget" option? or am I missing some something?
Is the "AN Removable Media Monitor" not showing there?

Regards

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Doug.

--- Quote from: Doug Clark on October 06, 2021, 07:00:44 pm ---2)  The Netlabs page for xWorplace says "Rich [Walsh] compiles special versions for ArcaOS and the current official version"   Are those "special versions" just  eWorkplace, or is there an AOS specific version of xWorkplace?

--- End quote ---
For what I know, the "special version" is mostly the xWorkplace lite version with the ArcaOS logo, not sure if there is something else included. But if Rick is around he is more than welcome to answer that.

I also took my ArcaOS 5.0.6 test VM and installed "xwp-1-0-13-full-en.exe" over it.
There are some files that changes, here are the list of some.

--- Code: ---treesize.exe  (existing 02/25/2020 - 134,847 bytes, new  01/13/2020 - 136,321 bytes)
xfix.exe (existing 02/25/2020 - 166,607 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 168,401 bytes)
xfldr.dll (existing 02/25/2020 - 932,395 butes, new 01/13/2020 - 1,022,030 bytes)
xfldr.sym (existing 02/25/2020 - 39,508 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 44,660 bytes)
xwpdaemn.exe (existing 02/25/2020 - 150,103 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 153,278 bytes)
xwpdaemn.sym (existing 02/25/2020 - 6,004 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 6,100 bytes)
xwphook.dll (existing 02/25/2020 - 31,911 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 33,569 bytes)
xwphook.sym (existing 02/25/2020 - 1,988 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 2,132 bytes)
xwpres.dll (existing 02/25/2020 - 76,817 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 113,889 bytes)
freshini.cmd (existing 02/25/2020 - 7,155 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 4,233 bytes)
xfldr001.dll (existing 02/25/2020 - 51,489 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 54,183 bytes)
xfldr001.hlp (existing 02/25/2020 - 457,088 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 552,095 bytes)
xfldr001.tmf (existing 02/25/2020 - 27,760 bytes, new 01/13/2020 - 69,509 bytes)
--- End code ---
Maybe this is only the size difference between the lite and full version of xworkplace.

I overwritten every file the ones on the installer. I rebooted and the "AN Removable Media Monitor" was still on the xcenter.

Regards

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote ---Installed xWorkPlace 1.0.13 which I got from Netlabs.
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Why? XWP is part of ArcaOS, and the ArcaOS version contains a few things that the Netlabs version does not have (like REMM, which may still be there from the ArcaOS install). What else have you back leveled from the ArcaOS install?


--- Quote ---1) Where are the removable widget files on the AOS installation media located and/or how do you install?
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On the install DVD: \CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG\ANXWP_EN.WPI

Just double click it, to install, and be sure to  allow, or replace, anything that it asks about.


--- Quote ---2)  The Netlabs page for xWorplace says "Rich [Walsh] compiles special versions for ArcaOS and the current official version"   Are those "special versions" just  eWorkplace, or is there an AOS specific version of xWorkplace?
--- End quote ---

It is a reworked build (lots of fixes). The fixes have been put to Netlabs, but not all widgets have been put there.

Andreas Schnellbacher:
To 2) Yes, there exist special versions for ArcaOS. They contain the AN removable media monitor widget files.

To 1) For ArcaOS 5.0.6: \CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG\ANXWP_EN.WPI
The files are:
plugins\xcenter\RemMedia.dll
plugins\xcenter\RemM_en.ms1 (rename to .msg if not already)
plugins\xcenter\RemMedia.xqs (optional, for bug report only)

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