Access ShellCLI

Greetings fellow RISC OS users.
I heared that it is possible to get to the ShellCLI
(like you press the F12 key) with an FX command?
Does anyone know how to accomplish that?

I think you would need to place an f12 key press into the keyboard input buffer using *FX 138,kbd buffer,f12keycode but it seems a strange thing to want to do.

Thanks Chris. I want to double click a script in my directory with basic programms
and be directly in the ShellCLI with that particular directory as the currently
selected directory.

Would the *GOS command do what you need?

From the RISC OS 3 PRM :-

*GOS starts the RISC OS Supervisor application from the current environment. The supervisor can only execute *Commands.

This is useful for entering simple commands for immediate execution, or for testing longer sequences of commands – while building command line scripts -on a line-by-line basis.

However you should be careful when calling it from the middle of an application which does not ‘shell’ new applications. For example, calling *GOS in the middle of writing a BASIC program will mean that you will lose all of your unsaved work.

From the desktop, pressing F12 has a similar effect. To return to the desktop, press Return at the start of a line with the Supervisor prompt (‘*’). If you do not have this prompt, you will first have to type *Quit to leave the application you are using.

Thanks Chris. I want to double click a script in my directory with basic programms
and be directly in the ShellCLI with that particular directory as the currently
selected directory.

I wrote an application !MultiTask that would sit on the icon bar and make sure the CSD was set to whatever was last double-clicked on. Also if you selected ‘GoToBASIC’ it would open a window showing the ‘>’ prompt with the CSD set to the last directory opened. If you dragged a BASIC programme onto its icon bar icon it would load it and ensure the CSD pointed to the directory it was loaded from so that a ’SAVE “sss” ’ would save the programme back to the same directory.

Hi,

I just press ^F12 (Control F12) to get a Task Window rather than F12 that opens a command console at bottom of screen.

Not really what you want, but maybe a script could be written to do what is required.

*FX138,0,&1CC

Thanks a lot, David.