12.02.00 – 18.02.00

Well, another slow week all around the LS community.  With
all the major changes in the core coding, it seems as if module
coders are waiting until things settle down a bit before hacking
away again at some code.  This brings me to a point that has been
getting to me a bit once again.  Mindjunction.com is basically a
LS ideas site like the old Mindstorm was.  A lot of the ideas that
have been posted are hacks of older modules.  Seeing as most of
these older modules have had there source released, someone should
consider updating them to the newer code and giving them a good
polishing.  Now don’t whine to me that you want new mods and that
redoing old ones is totally useless.  This is a great idea, a lot of
the older mods that are still stuck in the wharf, could be redone
for the desktop, polished up, a few things added and WHAM, its
basically a new module!  Give it some thought, especially if your
a beginning coder and need a bit of a jumping off point.

- demigod

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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- How to unsub from the LS Mailing List (2:45pm 15.02)

Well, after we all got spammed by someone who for some
reason could not unsub from the LS Mailing List, tin_omen
decided to post an article on how to unsub.  This is
mainly for people who have tried the standard e-mail to
litestep-unsubscribe and your still getting the list.

url – http://desktopian.org/listunsub.html
e-mail – tin_omen@mindless.com
(source: LS Mailing List ~ Yea I know)

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MODULES
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- Jdesk .61 IE ~ Nick Nimchuk (2:30pm 14.02)

“This build is nearly identical to Jugg’s jDesk 0.61,
with one set of differences–the extra two mouse
buttons on the Intellimouse Explorer.  It might work
with other 4+ button mice, but probably not.  For
those coders out there, if your mice sends an
X_BUTTON command, this fix will work for you.
Regardless, if you’re using Win9X/NT, you’ll need
the Intellipoint software installed AND running for
this to work correctly.  If you’re on Win2K, you
have native support and don’t need to worry.”

url – http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo
e-mail – keelor@zombieworld.com
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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- LSWallpaper 1.5.1 ~ Visigoth (11:33am 18.02)

- Now compatible with newer Litestep builds

url – http://floach.pimpin.net/visigoth/litestep/
e-mail – gandhimail@worldnet.att.net
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo)

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THEMES
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- LiteStep Aqua ~ ramen (12:04pm 18.02)

“Just updated the popup bitmaps and added some wharf modules.
Still made for a 1280×1024 screen but i think it can be
easily modified to fit into a 1024×768 resolution.”

url – http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/LSAqua.jpg
e-mail – jaydee_domingo@hotmail.com
(source: http://www.litestep.net)

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WEB SITES
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- LS2 – LiteSTEP Underground ~ mrG (11:36am 18.02)

mrG shot me an e-mail about a new site he is opening with
a few others.  From the e-mail:

“…id like you to put a jab in this weeks edition about a
new litestep user site, LS2 – LiteSTEP Underground. currently,
me and maaneeack are working on it, and yogi has offered to
assist us with modules and such. the site is going to be
totally user-related and is going to have news about anything
litestep-related. main focuses are going to be on maintaining
an online support system of some sort, with all the tutorials
we can find. all this may seem a little vague, but we want to
make sure our site stays flexible; i guess the best way to
describe it would be a ezine-ish litestep site with everything
under the sun, except themes (we have neither the space nor
bandwidth to host themes and screenshots, although it has
been considered that having a Theme of the Week would be
interesting). geez, im rambling… maybe you can derive
something from that =). the main thing id like you to do is
tell the users to email me at mrgbytes@mindspring.com with
ANY ideas they have about what they’d like to see in a
litestep site, but be sure to mention that its a user
resource site and wont focus on archiving themes.

e-mail – mrgbytes@mindspring.com
(source: mrG via e-mail)

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MISC
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- Win2K SysTray Fix ~ Nexter (2:33 pm 14.02)

This module is a fix for the systray (desktop.dll and
systray.dll) Under windows 2000. “It only activates the
system icons, nothing more…”

%%UPDATE%% (11:40 15.02)

“I was made aware of the fact that the module causes trouble
when recycling, and also that it doesn’t give anything but
the volume control. I have therefore compiled a stand alone
version, intended to be run as an autostart item.”

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

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Tips
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- Having problems with the latest and greatest (or not so great)
daily dev build but really REALLY don’t want to run the last
“official” release?  The 11.23.99 build is considered to be the
last known stable dev release rite now.

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Retro
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- Incinerate v1 ~ Bryan Kilian (August 16, 1998)

This was one of the first eye candy mods for LS.  It is a
recycle bin replacement that shows idle flames burning.
When you drag and drop and item onto the wharf tile, it will
flare up and put the item into your recycle bin.

download – http://www.chunkymunky.com/lsweeky/retro/incinerate.zip

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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 180200

New code [desktop2 / Headius / 2-11-00]
o New desktop2 module to replace the base desktop
window from desktop.dll. Equivalent to desktop.dll
with no taskbar or tray.

Fixed [litestep / Maduin / 02-17-2000]:
o Reimplemented !reloadModule and !unloadModule

Clean [lsapi / Message / 02-18-2000]
o Removed the EasterEgg Bang declaration =P

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