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SystemControlA - Method for selectively disabling OS features. (V40)
SystemControl - varargs stub for SystemControlA().
failTag = SystemControlA(tagList);
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ULONG SystemControlA(struct TagItem *);
failTag = SystemControl(firstTag, ...);
ULONG SystemControl(Tag, ...);
This function is used to alter the operation of the system. Some of
the alterations involve controlling what are normally regarded as
system resources. In order to minimize confusion only one task is
allowed to control any part of the system resources. This prevents
the possiblity of two tasks fighting, each controlling a part of the
system. If a tag is identified as task exclusive, it means that
only one task can hold (set to TRUE) that tag. If
another task attempts to set the same tag to TRUE, the call to
SystemControl() will fail.
It is important to remember that SystemControl() can fail.
This is a low level function and certain tags do not fit the normal
Amiga multitasking model.
tagList - pointer to an array of tags listing the features of the
system to be enabled/disabled.
SCON_TakeOverSys (BOOL)
TRUE - Takes over the CPU to ensure that a program gets every
ounce of CPU time (with the exception of crucial
interrupts). When in this mode, the CPU will belong
completely to the program. Task switching will be
disabled and the program will get all CPU cycles. This
means any calls to the OS that involve multitasking in
some way will not execute correctly. Other tasks will
not run until this tag is used with FALSE. However,
during a Wait() on a signal, multitasking will
automatically be turned back on until the signal is
received. Once received, multitasking will again be
disabled and the CPU will be exclusive to the owning
program.
FALSE - Relinquishes the CPU and reenables multitasking.
This tag is task exculsive. This tag nests. A task may
take over the CPU several times before relinquishing
it.
SCON_KillReq (BOOL)
TRUE - Disables system requesters. These are the reasons for
NOT disabling system requesters:
1- No calls in the program will cause a system
requester.
2- The only thing that could cause a requester
to appear is the lack of a CD in the drive and
SCON_CDReboot is set to CDReboot_On, therefore a
requester can't appear.
3- The only disk I/O is via a CD with SCON_CDReboot
set to CDReboot_On and/or nonvolatile.library.
When requesters should not be disabled.
GAME PROGRAMS:
No DOS calls are used after loading; or SCON_CDReboot
is CDReboot_On; and nonvolatile.library is used for
loading and saving user data.
This fits the above case since; After loading either
DOS calls are not used fitting reason 1, or the game
is accessing the CD and has SCON_CDReboot set to
CDReboot_On fitting reason 2. The game accesses high
scores, game position, etc through nonvolatile.library,
fitting reason 3.
FALSE - Enables requesters for the program.
This tag nests. Tasks may disable requesters several times before
enabling them. However, there must be a matching number of calls.
SCON_CDReboot (ULONG)
CDReboot_On - Ejecting the CD will cause a reboot of the
system. Use this only if the program cannot deal with
error conditions.
CDReboot_Off - Ejecting the CD will not cause a reboot of the
system. Use this if the program needs to insert CDs
while running.
CDReboot_Default - Restore the default reboot behavior for this
system. This should be used upon exit, if this tag had
been used to change the reboot behaviour. For the CD32
this value is synonomous with CDReboot_On. For Amiga
computers this value is synonomous with CDReboot_Off.
Note that the default reboot behavior differs depending on the
platform. If a program requires a specific behavior it must
use this function to set the behavior. For example, a CD audio
mixer would use this tag with the data CDReboot_Off. This will
allow the changing of audio CDs on the game machine as well as
Amiga computers.
If, however, there is no error detection code at all this tag
should be used with the data CDReboot_On.
It is hoped that no program will require CDReboot_On. If all
programs check for error condition and recover gracefully such a
call should never be necessary. With the default behavior the
CD32 will always reset on disk ejects, and programs
run from Amiga computers will not reset. Thus, leaving the
default will increase the market for a program to include both
types of platforms.
This tag does not nest.
SCON_StopInput (BOOL) - When TRUE, stops input.device from using any
CPU cycles. Also prevents input.device from passing along any
events from either the keyboard and/or port 0.
This tag is task exclusive. This tag is NOT reversible.
Attempting to reverse will result in confused/garbled input
events.
SCON_AddCreateKeys (ULONG) - Starts creating rawkey codes for the
joystick/game controller on the given unit. The unit value is
checked for validity and must be either 0 or 1. Each different unit
used results in some code added to the VBlank interrupt chain.
This tag nests. The tag SCON_RemCreateKeys is used to undo this
tag. Tasks may create rawkey codes several times before stopping
them.
Note that when operating in an Intuition window, the controller's
blue button is the equivilent of the mouse menu button. Therefore,
Intuition will be capturing most blue button events. If
notificiation of these events is important, review the
documentation for WFLG_RMBTRAP in the
intuition.library/OpenWindow() autodoc.
SCON_RemCreateKeys (ULONG) - stops rawkey codes for the joystick/game
controller on the given unit. The unit value is checked for
validity and must be either 0 or 1.
failTag - zero if all tags succeeded. A non-zero return indicates a
tag that has failed. It is possible that other tags may
fail as well.
If any tag fails there will be no change in the system due
to other tags.
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