Fitting 'star' commands inside a Module

Is there a simple way of fitting ‘star’ commands / utils inside a ROM module – so they can be simply loaded at startup in one go?

And then called from say – !Boot !Run

Library Dir – inside Resources:$ maybe.

You can have star commands in a “normal” (disc) module so I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t go in a ROM module. In fact, I think there’s already one called BootCommands with some things in it.

Edit: “I don’t see any reason why not” indeed. Virtually every star command on a “clean” system will be coming from a ROM module of some sort!

Star commands are an integral part of RISC OS Modules.

Look at the Help and Command Keyword Table on this page

ResourceFS is probably what you’re after.

Many ROM Modules will register resources during their Init so they’re available at boot. I believe several of the ROM based applications work that way as well, such as Edit, Draw etc

Hmm – will have a look at that.

Have tried to load ‘BootCmds’ ver 1.48 from ‘VirtualRPC-DL/Plugins/hostservices/Chunks’ but no go – some of the cmd’s give a error on !boot running.

Like ‘IfThere’ gives an error.
(Anything strange with this module)

The one in RO5 rom – when saved – does’t like being softload again.

Have various modules working ok from ‘Chunks’ like ‘26b CLib’ etc. (when using RO4.02)
There are shown as dormant ‘*ROM.’- when RO5.25 is running.

ResourceFS is probably what you’re after.

Ugggh. Well, if the ‘star commands’ you’re talking about are Utilities that someone else wrote, then yes you could at a push do that, but it’s deeply unpleasant because as well as registering them as part of resFS you’d have to modify Run$Path so that *Something would actually look there.

HOWEVER if we’re talking about ‘star commands’ that you’ve written then absolutely do not do that.

HOWEVER if we’re talking about ‘star commands’ that you’ve written then absolutely do not do that.

No, just bung them in the Library directory!

That’s what it’s for, isn’t it?

Well, isn’t it? Mine’s full of utilities, BASIC routines, App files, Obey files – anything the OS can run! Even stuff to be typed blind in the case of loss of video feedback, like my Restore obeyfile which just says:
WimpMode 32|m

Make of that what you will!