ColourFiler not working

I have found Nemo’s ColourFiler very useful, but a few weeks ago it stopped colouring my Filer windows on this ARMX6. I have searched everywhere in the Boot sequence looking for what might be interfering and found nowt.

Its module loading and colour definitions work as normal, as evidenced by output from *Filer_Colour, but (presumably following some unrecognised change in my setup) all filer backgrounds remain obstinately grey. Can anyone suggest where I might look for whatever is impeding ColourFiler?

ColourFiler 0.12
OS 5.29 (20-Nov-2022)

Does reverting to a slightly earlier ROM image make it work again?

Can anyone suggest where I might look for whatever is impeding ColourFiler?

ColourFiler 0.12

ColourFiler 0.12 is all grey here too but fortunately I was living in the past, 0.07 is OK.

In Choices:Boot.Tasks I have an Obey file called FlrSetup2 with the following commands: -

*RMEnsure ColourFiler 0.06 RMRun System:Modules.ColourFile
*WimpVisualFlags -NoIconBoxesInTransWindows
*Filer_Colour SDFS:: 96 36 44
*Filer_Colour Sunfish:: 36 61 71 10
*Filer_Colour Fat32fs:: 34 61 35 10
*Filer_Colour Share:: 32 61 18 10

This sets up different colours by filing system type, and fades them down the further you get from the root directory.

@Rick
The grey backgrounds started before I moved to RComp’s November (high vector) ROM from their February (low vector) ROM.
@djp
I have reverted to ColourFiler 0.07 and rainbows break out. Tsk, tsk: I must have updated to 0.12 and not immediately noticed the consequence. Doh!
@Grahame
My setup method is equivalent to yours.

I find the same issue with an August (high vector) ROM on a Pi 400. Is Nemo here to help?

Finding Nemo? ;-) Try Twitter! https://twitter.com/nemo20000

@Stuart
Thanks, but I’m not much of a twitterer (I’ve an almost entirely unused account), but I can see that he doesn’t want to be sent messages:

    nemo мαѕтσ∂ση.σηℓιηє/

   @nemo20000 can’t be messaged

I’m running an ARMX6 with RO 5.29 (20 Nov 22) and it is working well – [checks ColourFiler version] – 0.06, so it looks like I’ve never updated it.

Bernard complained

he doesn’t want to be sent messages

It is common practice on Twitter to restrict Direct Messages to followers. You have been prevented from messaging me there because you didn’t click the Follow button first. What seems obvious to regular users seems tersely unhelpful to anyone else. I will switch off that restriction and see if it leads to more “beautiful women near you” desperately wanting to talk to me of all people, which is what caused that restriction in the first place.

I must have updated to 0.12 and not immediately noticed the consequence

Rather more seriously I did not notice which is unlike me. I find to my shame that the last version I smoke-tested on RO5 was 0.07. Ominously my changelog since provides the obvious clue to the cause:

; 0.08 (31 May 2018) FadeToColour added
; 0.09 (28 Nov 2019) IconBorders – use an IconBorderFilter
; 0.10 (20 Apr 2021) Notice Filer coming and going
; 0.11 (05 Jan 2022) Fix stupid typo in filter deregistration that was
; killing Filer when it restarted. Cripes.
; 0.12 (16 Apr 2022) No instantiation

In my defence I have been running my own version of FilterManager for years, and made sure to not use any facility that is specific to my branch, such as custom icons (twitter search) – but I forgot how ancient RO5 is.

RO5’s FilterManager has not been updated since 2003. I’d have remembered that if I’d smoke-tested 0.09 three years ago.

One thousand, one hundred and thirty five apologies.

I will make the obviously-optional part actually optional, instead of refusing to do anything just because your API is twenty years old.

I will release a new actually tested version some time today, with a permanent apology to Bernard in the help file in lieu of photographs of the welts of shame I shall self-inflict once I’ve finished typing through my tears.

[And if some of the delusionists could quit imagining a glorious future and get around to actually catching up with the distant past it would be about bloody time, no?]

the welts of shame I shall self-inflict

Maybe the change on your twitter account will turn up ‘“beautiful women near you” desperately wanting to’ …help you out with the welting ;)

New version released – 0.14.

Apologies again.

Steve quipped

Maybe

Your internet experience is very different to mine, it seems.

Your internet experience is very different to mine, it seems.

This may be more in the eyes of the beholders than in the actual objective experiences.

actual objective experiences.

For me, stuff beyond RO forums, a few news sites and occasional BBC TV comes down to 3rd party gossip, but some of that gossip speaks of “leather whips, maple syrup and chocolate sprinkles” – which is a mental picture that’s hard to erase no matter how many different colours my filer windows can be displayed in.

Whips, syrup, sprinkles? Amateurs….. ;)

What do you want? French widows in every bedroom?

@nemo: Welcome back and thanks for fixing ColourFiler – v0.14 working fine here on RO5.29

TY. I will endeavour, in Steve’s memory, to visit often enough to answer Basic queries at the very least.