01.04.00 – 07.04.00
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- demigod
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- TimeWarpX leaves LS (10:18am 03.04)
It seems that for some reason that Time does not wish to
talk about, he is leaving the LS Community. This is indeed
a very sad day. Taken from his last ss posted on ls.net:
“I have waited until the day *after* April fools to post
this… as I do not want this taken as a joke.
“I am very sorry to say that this shall be my last screenshot,
post or anything. Due to circumstances that I wish not to
discuss, I am completely leaving the LS community. This is
probably the saddest day that I have ever faced, but
unfortunately there is no way out for me. There are several
people that I would like to thank and say a final goodbye to.
“c0mrade, number one, I am incredibly sorry that I have let you
down on litestep.org, I wish that I could stay and help out.
“AznRomeo… what can i say, I’ve known you as long as I’ve been
here, I’m going to miss you. Please continue owning with your
themes. Too bad I wont be here any more to give you ideas :(
“MorpheusX… if you ever see this, you are the one that got
the ball rolling, from you I learned shortcutgroups, the
community completely changed due to you, I may not have liked
your style, but you own.
“Ender^gcc… don’t give up, never let anyone try and tell you
that you are something that you don’t think you are, if you
believe in yourself then nothing can stop you. I thank you
greatly for easycuts, which has probably created the biggest
ripple in the themeing scene(sorry other coders, you guys kick
ass too), oh yeah… please continue and enhance easycuts, I
hit some performance problems at 200+ shortcutgroups :)
“Killarny… you too I knew for a very long time, I have not
spoken to you in a long while, but be assured that you are
still a great friend.
“maaneeack… we had alot of fun, I will miss you greatly.
“phobos18… Don’t give up on ICE, don’t let a great shell slide
into nothingness, I am sorry for many things that I said long
ago.
lonerunnr… you started this all… Litestep has evolved into
a very very great thing, it has been a very big part of my
life, and I am very glad of that, thank you for litestep.
“Devteam… I am sorry that I will not be around to harass you
once you start in on .25, please do not lose faith in your
vision.
“To everyone else that I’m SURE I missed, I have been around
since October of 1998r, I am sure that I have missed people in
this spiel… I will miss you too…
“Please do not send email to me, if you wish just post comments
in here, I will see them. Perhaps someday if conditions change
for me, I will be back, but I am not sure. I will always look
back to the times that I had involved with litestep as the best
part of my life so far.
“And with that I bid you a final farewell, please don’t let
the innovation that I have strived for die.
“TimewarpX
“:*(”
url – http://www.litestep.net/sshots.php3?perform=zoom&sid=206
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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MODULES
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- TextEdit 1.0 ~ WhiteShadow (9:19am 04.04)
“This is a small module that adds two bang command !textadd
and!textdel which can be used to edit text files. It could be
useful in allowing you to edit your step.rc file on the fly.
However, it could also be very dangerous if used on the wrong
file.”
url – http://www.muohio.edu/~changty/
e-mail – changty@muohio.edu
(source: http://modulo.litestep.org)
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- mIRC Command 1.1 ~ WhiteShadow (9:21am 04.04)
New in this version:
Fixed closing of dde connection when module is unloaded.
url – http://www.muohio.edu/~changty/
e-mail – changty@muohio.edu
(source: http://modulo.litestep.org)
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THEMES
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- 14 ~ Darkfyre (10:37am 07.04)
“According to authorities on the subject, this is my best
theme yet =] …and i must say i agree wholeheartedly.”
“Nifty features include a desktop switcher (so you don’t need
a clunky vwm taking up space on your desktop all the time),
spiffy shortcut buttons with the coolest mouseover effect I’ve
ever created, and an LSXCommand that hides itself away when not
in use.”
“This theme supports resolutions 800×600 – 1280×1024.”
“I’ve included Eclipse’s “Eclipse Metal” wallpaper because it
makes my theme look good ;]”
“I really enjoyed making this theme (even more so than putting
labels on the screenshot) and hope i hope it works as well for
your desktop as it has for mine.”
url – http://www.litestep.net
ss – http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/14.jpg
e-mail – stynesco@msu.edu
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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WEB SITES
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- c0mrade Looking For A New LS.org Web Admin
“All right people, after basically coding Modulo from scratch,
to make it dynamic, and easy for updates, I’ve come back down
to earth, and walked into the wall. What I mean, is
litestep.org which TimewarpX and myself started work on. But
since TimewarpX has left the realms of LiteStep scene, I’ve met
a few difficulties, so I’m seeking for some help. Below is the
list of what’s preferred, but not required:
“If you are an experienced LiteStepper (theming, configuring,
etc.) litestep.org needs you. I’m going to list what I need
out of administrator(s) below:
“Knowledge of LiteStep from basic things to advanced features.
“Knowledge of HTML.
“Knowledge of PHP is ENCOURAGEBLE.
“Willingness to dedicate some time to the site consistently.
“Not a lot I ask for, so if you ARE in fact interesting in
getting involved with litestep.org AND litestep.net (yes both
sites, because they will be integrated between each other),
PLEASE, contact me at c0mrade@litestep.net, or c0mrade@litestep.org.
“Thank you in advance.”
url – http://www.litestep.net
e-mail – c0mrade@litestep.net
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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MISC
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- Tutorial on Updating LiteStep ~ rootrider (10:00am 03.04)
“I’ve just written up a quick tutorial for people who wish to
install Litestep for the first time. I also updated the
“Upgrading to 11/23/99″ tutorial to include information on
actually unzipping the build into the LS directory (along with
one correction :). As always, if anyone has any more
information on installing or upgrading Litestep, or
corrections for me to make, please let me know.”
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/litestep-upgrade.shtml
e-mail – rootrider@netzero.net
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)
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- Rainlendar Source Released ~ Rainy (10:14am 03.04)
“Sources for Rainlendar released. I hope they are useful to
someone. At least they show how to use MFC in Litestep plugins.
Also some of you might find the semi-transparency stuff
interesting.”
url – http://gamma.nic.fi/~rainy/
e-mail – rainy@iki.fi
(source: http://gamma.nic.fi/~rainy/)
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Tips
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- If you use negative numbers when placing shortcuts and other desktop
items, you can make your theme resolution independent. The simple
theory behind this is you are counting pixels away from the sides
instead of too the sides.
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Retro
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- No submissions still.
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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.6 build 033100
Modified [litestep / NeXTer / 03-31-2000]
o Changed the “blah” errors to tell what went wrong,
easier to debug that way…
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