09.10.99 – 15.10.99

Well usually I reserve this space to rant about something
that annoys me in the LiteStep community.  This week though, I have
some positive things to say.  Over the past two weeks something has
happened that has finally made people act.  First Visigoth goes off
and does a great tutorial in #ls_help.  Now we have a themeing
tutorial going on.  This is what is needed, and I’m happy to see it
happening finally.  The bickering has toned down for a longer period
of time than usual, action is replacing talking, and the core is being
debugged and being made stable.  I just hope that this trend continues
as it’s going.  This could be the step that LS needs to make it to the
next level.

- demigod

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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- LiteStep on ARS Technica (11:13am 13.10)

“I was browsing around and noticed an Intro to Litestep on ARS
Technica, and its not too bad at all. Its a pity that nobody
in the actual Litestep community can come up with a nice page
like this, just maybe a tiny bit more up-to-date.. It is
interesting to note that they mention WharfAnoid on the page,
as well as FPN… whoohoo!

url – http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q99/litestep/
litestep-1.html (note: url wraps)
(source: floach.pimpin.net)

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- Themes Central Having LS Themeing Contest (9:53am 14.10)

Don’t know if everyone knows about this or not, but ph0tek
(master of Themes Central) is having a Litestep theming
contest.
- Best Theme gets Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- Best logo for Themes Central gets a copy of Homeworld, Unreal
Tournament, or QIII Arena.

Cool stuff just for making some graphics and slapping em
together, eh?

url – http://www.majorloss.com/litestep/
(source: LS Mailing List ~ Theme Contest)

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- New LiteSpawn Comming Soon (10:13am 14.10)

Looks like one of my favorite shell managers is being updated
again, this time with traysave support!

“New LiteSpawn hitting the streets in the next week or two
with all the goodies you guys have been asking for.  TraySaver
b10 compatibility, and ability to use the new -nostartup
parameter in litestep.exe for more reliable shell swapping is
all in there.  I’ll let you guys know when the gettin’ is
good…”

(source: LS Mailing List ~ OT — Icesphear

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MODULES
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- Rainmation 0.2 ~ Rainy (11:02am 11.10)

New version of Litestep animation plugin has been released.
New features include simple shortcut support with mouse event
handling.

url – http://www.iki.fi/rainy/products.html
e-mail – rainy@iki.fi
(source: chunkymunky.com)

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- LSRes.dll ~ MrJukes (11:05am 11.10)

MrJukes has released (with the help of GeekMaster) a module
called LSRes.dll. This module creates a bang command to change
the desktop resolution.

url – chunkymunky.com/modulo
e-mail – mrjukes@purdue.edu
(source: chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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- WinCTRL 1.1 ~ Mirul (12:05pm 12.10)

I’ve made some changes to winctrl and added some features.
Try it and see whether I’ve stuffed anything up. Here’s what’s
been done:

- Fixed RemoveBangCommand for !WinHome
- Fixed shaded window so that when manually extended down, it
is considered unshaded.
- Changed shade/unshade to work on maximized windows.
- Changed !WinHome to be equivalent to !WinMove (see below)
- Added !WinSendToBottom.
- Added !WinUnshadeAll
- Added !WinMove
- Added !WinMaximize, !WinMinimize, !WinRestore
- Added WinDialogsPosition

url – litestep.net
e-mail – mirul_@hotmail.com
(source: litestep.net)

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- Recycler 3.1.1 ~ Joachim Calvert (10:44am 13.10)

- Changed some microscopic things so that it no longer needs
the ‘LiteStepDir’ variable to be set

url – http://hem.passagen.se/jcalvert/software/
e-mail – jcalvert@hem.passagen.se
(source: chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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- geekPaster 1 ~ GeekMaster (10:46am 13.10)

This module lets you use bang commands through hotkeys or in
the popup to paste preset text strings into the active window.

url – http://chunkymunky.com/modulo
e-mail – lheddings@geocities.com
(source: chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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- LSDesktopWeather 0.51 ~ fizzie (11:01am 13.10)

This module will display the current weather conditions on your
desktop. You can specify a background image and control the
display of temperature, dewpoint, winds, pressure, and
humidity.

%%UPDATE%% (3:56pm 13.10)

- added windchill and heat index variables
- added ability to launch weather page from right-click menu
- fixed bug causing Tampa’s weather conditions to always be
displayed on some computers
- fixed bug causing a greater than symbol (>) to be displayed
in front of the value for humidity

url – http://chunkymunky.com/module
e-mail – fizzie7@excite.com
(source: chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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- V_bar 1.1 ~ BlackHawk (3:10pm 15.10)

“Seems like I got those d**n bug ironed out. V_bar is now
confirmed to be working under Windows 2000. I haven’t been
able to test it under WinNT yet, but it should run without
problems, too. Those who had an crashOnRecycle problem with
V_bar should be glad to hear that that issue is also fixed.

“Featurewise I have added a new Bang command named !ToggleVBar
and two new  startup options, VBarStartHidden and
VBarStartCollapsed.  There are currently still *some* things
to be done, like hide from alt-tab and the Alt-F4 problem but
i thing that i will have them fixed till 1.1a in a few days.”

url – blkhawk.cjb.net
e-mail – blkhawk49@geocities.com
(source: LS Mailing List ~ ***V_bar 1.1***)

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- sysVWM-hints ~ pigeon(4:16pm 15.10)

“Just grabbed the latest sysvwm source from the ls-src-current,
and I added a new setting “VWMWindowsHints” for the step.rc,
which enables displaying on windows’ titles in the little vwm
screen as tooltips when you move your mouse over different
window indicator.”

url – http://pigeon.virtualave.net/litestep/
e-mail – pigeon@iname.com
(source: LS Mailing List ~ sysVWM – VWMWindowsHints)

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THEMES
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- YogiStep r2 ~ Yogib3ar (1:52pm 14.10)

“YogiStep Revision 2, contains updated modules, and a slicker
design.. hope u enjoy.”

url – www.litestep.net
e-mail – billydog@nycap.rr.com
(source: Yogib3ar ~ #ls_help)

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WEB SITES
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- LSFR ~ LiteStepFrench Page open (11:51am 11.09)

“I was chatting in #Litestep today, and Epsylon3 wanted me to
mention the opening of LSFR. It’s basicly your average Litestep
site for French users. Enjoy!”

url – http://lsfr.cjb.net/
(source: litestep.net)

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PROGRAMS
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- Window Mover ~ Two_toNe (11:33am 13.10)

“I wrote a small program called Window Mover to regain windows
lost by a VWM.”  This program also requires the vb5 runtime
lib.

url – http://home.inreach.com/2tone
e-mail – 2tone@inreach.com
(source: floach.pimpin.net)

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- TileGen ~ BlackHawk (9:33pm 15.10)

“TileGen is a 64×64 tile generator for Litestep.
You can generate as much as 10x the amount of tiles
in the same time as with any painprogram.
The program should be self-explaining, and there
shouldn’t be any bugs.
Don’t use it in 256 colour modus.

“You can set the loaded picture by commandline, too.
tileGen F_blank.bmp”

url – blkhawk.cjb.net
e-mail – blkhawk49@geocities.com
(source: LS Mailing List ~ **** TileGen release****)

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Tips
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- If your having problems getting popup.dll revision x.x to scroll
through your programs, try using SetDeskTopArea.  Make a 10 pixel
wide area at the bottom of your screen so the popups think that they
are off the screen and will scroll up.

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Retro
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- SetBorder 1.1 ~ Klas Axelsson (Oct 28, 1998)

This program was originaly made for late b23 builds and early
b24.x builds before SetDeskTopArea was introduced.  From
the readme:

“The purpose of this program is to change the area of the
desktop used by a program when maximized. The DLL version is
a LiteStep Plugin.”

download – chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/retro/setborder.zip

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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 141099
Changes
- BugFix [lsapi/lsapi.c / visigoth]:
o Fixed jugg’s fix to ParseBangCommand()
(NOTE: lsxcommand is fine – strlen doesn’t check for null
pointers)

- Preview – b24.5 build 300899
Changes
- all features of cvs-build 1999/08/30.
- with bitmap-importfilter in lsapi.dll
- key support for TAB, PAUSE and APPS key
- popup-icons can be placed with POPUPTEXTOFFSET from edge
- fixed cursormovement in popup. the submenus don’t open
automatically when moved with cursors. with mouse the will,
but you need to press the left mousebutton, when using key
before.
- return/enter opens now the subfolders correctly
- !HELP command for calling help for !bangcommands (very
unstable and resource leeking) (ex: !HELP POPUP)

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