The Pegasos book « Le livre du Pegasos » Compilation of articles on the Pegasos Volume 3 : MorphOS May 2007 edition - By Geoffrey CHARRA (V2.3) Translated from french by Geoffrey CHARRA (December 2007), With the help of Eric WALTER, Thibault JEANSON, Denis HILLIARD (translation) and Fulvio PERUGGI (corrections) Sponsored by The Pegasos book – Volume 3 : MorphOS Contents 1 Presentation of MorphOS .............................................................................................. 6 2 Installation of MorphOS ............................................................................................... 8 2.1 Preparation ........................................................................................................... 8 2.2 Booting from CD .................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Installing the Hard Drive ........................................................................................ 9 2.3.1 Partition 0 (boot) ............................................................................................ 9 2.3.2 Partition 1 (system) ...................................................................................... 10 2.3.3 Partition 2 to N (data) ................................................................................... 11 2.3.4 Save of partition table and check ..................................................................... 11 2.4 Format the Partitions ........................................................................................... 11 2.5 Copy MorphOS onto your Hard Drive ...................................................................... 11 2.6 Boot from your Hard Drive .................................................................................... 12 2.7 Auto-booting ....................................................................................................... 12 2.8 Screen mode setup ............................................................................................. 13 2.9 Changing from a Pegasos I to a Pegasos II ............................................................. 13 2.10 Troubleshooting ................................................................................................. 13 2.11 In the event of impossible boot : deleting the MBR with a PC… ................................ 14 2.12 Installing 3D graphic drivers ................................................................................ 15 2.13 Other updates ................................................................................................... 16 3 Presentation of the MorphOS tree ................................................................................ 17 4 MorphOS preferences ................................................................................................ 18 4.1 Audio ................................................................................................................. 19 4.2 Debug ................................................................................................................ 19 4.3 Font ................................................................................................................... 20 4.3.1 Use of FTManager .......................................................................................... 20 4.4 IControl .............................................................................................................. 20 4.5 Input ................................................................................................................. 21 4.6 Locale ................................................................................................................ 21 4.7 ModeEdit ............................................................................................................ 21 4.8 Printer ................................................................................................................ 22 4.8.1 Config tab ..................................................................................................... 22 4.8.2 Graphics tab ................................................................................................. 22 4.9 ScreenMode ........................................................................................................ 23 4.10 Serial ............................................................................................................... 23 4.11 SFS .................................................................................................................. 23 4.12 Sound .............................................................................................................. 25 4.13 Time ................................................................................................................ 25 4.14 USB ................................................................................................................. 25 4.15 Individualize the preférences ............................................................................... 26 5 MUI (Magic User Interface) ........................................................................................ 27 5.1 Global MUI Settings ............................................................................................. 27 5.2 Menus ................................................................................................................ 28 5.2.1 The classic menu ........................................................................................... 28 5.2.2 The contextual menu ..................................................................................... 28 5.2.3 The popup menu ........................................................................................... 29 May 2007 edition – Geoffrey CHARRA – http://www.efika.org 2 The Pegasos book – Volume 3 : MorphOS 5.3 The classes ......................................................................................................... 29 5.3.1 System ........................................................................................................ 30 5.3.2 Windows ...................................................................................................... 30 5.3.3 Groups ......................................................................................................... 31 5.3.4 Buttons ........................................................................................................ 32 5.3.5 Scrollbars ..................................................................................................... 33 5.3.6 Listviews ...................................................................................................... 33 5.3.7 Strings ......................................................................................................... 34 5.3.8 Sliders et Gauges ......................................................................................... 34 5.3.9 Menus .......................................................................................................... 35 5.3.10 Drag & Drop ................................................................................................ 35 5.3.11 Keyboard .................................................................................................... 35 5.3.12 Images ....................................................................................................... 36 5.3.13 Help ........................................................................................................... 36 5.4 External classes ................................................................................................... 36 5.5 Individual settings ............................................................................................... 37 6 Ambient ................................................................................................................... 38 6.1 Menus ............................................................................................................... 38 6.2 Contextual menus ................................................................................................ 39 6.3 Icons ................................................................................................................ 39 6.4 Keyboard shortcuts and combinations .................................................................... 39 6.5 Icons bar ............................................................................................................ 40 6.6 Ambient FAQ ....................................................................................................... 40 6.7 Obtaining the latest version of Ambient .................................................................. 41 6.7.1 Downloading and installing ............................................................................. 41 6.7.2 Compiling the sources ................................................................................... 41 6.7.3 Customizing the icons ................................................................................... 42 6.7.4 Troubleshooting and hints ............................................................................... 42 7 Tips and hints ........................................................................................................... 44 7.1 Create a PNG icon ............................................................................................... 44 7.2 Tools to add to MorphOS 1.4 ................................................................................