13.11.99 – 19.11.99
Instead of using this space to do my usual rant about the
LiteStep community, I’m going to use it to welcome all the new
subscribers from darkstep.com. Welcome to LSWeekly! I do realize
that this is a LiteStep newsletter, but because of DarkSteps ability
to load LiteStep modules, much of the information you will find
within this letter will we useful to you also. The MODULES section
in particular because most of the modules listed there should run
within DarkStep.
As DarkStep grows, I will eventually be doing a DSWeekly
news letter with this same format. Of course, I might just totally
lose it all and end up doing a ShellsWeekly or something because
of the sheer number of shells out there but I have a great respect
for Fahim and would really like to honor him by doing a DS specific
letter.
- demigod
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- DarkStep released (7:45pm 19.11)
Thats right, Fahim finally released the project he has been
working on since he left LiteStep. As of right now it is
very minimal but stable. It can run about 90% of LiteSteps
modules and the potential for it is almost unlimited. Go
and check it out!
url – http://www.darkstep.com
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MODULES
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- V_Bang 1.51 ~ BlackHawk (11:35am 15.11)
- Fixed a few Set_volume bugs
* the mainchannel can be set by Set_Volume now…..
* Channels can now be set to 100%….
(used 65.536 instead of 65.535) #-)
- Added interface to access v_bang from third party
programs…..
%%UPDATE%% (12:38pm 19.11)
“I have fixed both LsSlider and V_Bang to address problems
people had with running them on WinNT and Win2K.”
url – http://blkhawk.cjb.net
e-mail – blkhawk@gmx.net
(source: LS Mailing List ~ ****V_bang 1.51***)
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- Hotspot 0.4 ~ Pavel Vitis (11:51am 15.11)
- Fixed bug that caused crashes on WinNT (timerproc)
- Hotspots are automatically disabled when screensaver is
running
- Hotspots.dll now returns RevisionID string
- Added some items into to-do list
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com)
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- Screensaver 1.1 ~ Pavel Vitis (11:52am 15.11)
- Fixed bug (hope) causing crash on some WinNT machines
- Module will not try to launch already running screensaver
- Added optional Delay parameter to !ScreenSaver bang. Useful
on fast machines, when starting screensaver with a hotkey.
Specify desired delay interval to avoid unwanted aborting of
screensaver by releasing of key. (On user request)
%%UPDATE%% (9:31am 18.11)
- Fixed bug that causes Litestep to crash on !ScreenSaverToggle
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com)
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- LsSlider b0.2 ~ BlackHawk (10:36am 16.11)
“LsSlider is NOT the same as v_bar……….
LsSlider is planned to be a general Slider module and not a
VC- slider module like v_bar. The three main differences are
size, stability and flexibility – LSS is less then half as big
as v_bar and uses far less memory resources, It *should* be
stable and it’s Sliders can be placed anyWhere(!), with
anySkin(!!)for anySlider. All Sliders can have anySize and
each slider can control different things(!!!)……… *phew*”
%%UPDATE%% (3:23pm 17.11)
It has all the banglist stuff working and a ton of other
new features like toggle Show/hide of a Slider, DRAGABLE
sliders and Slider not being AlwaysOntop 8)
I have also raised the maximum number of sliders to 10……..
%%UPDATE%% (12:40pm 19.11)
“I have fixed both LsSlider and V_Bang to address problems
people had with running them on WinNT and Win2K.
There are two new Bangs in LsSlider – !ShowSlider and
!HideSlider. I have also “improved” the dragging code a bit,
but you shouldn’t be able to tell the difference.”
url – http://blkhawk.cjb.net
e-mail – blkhawk@gmx.net
(source: LS Mailing List ~ LsSlider BETA V ;))
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THEMES
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- gForce-Redux ~ Gizzmo (11:33am 15.11)
“Just wanted to let everyone know that my new theme,
gForce-Redux is available now at litestep.net, and will be at
skinz.org as soon as they send me my password so I can log in.
If anyone has any other good theme sites that I should up this
to, please let me know.”
url – http://www.pinnpc.com/deepfreeze/index.html
e-mail – gizzmo1@inficad.com
(source: LSMailing List ~ My new theme, and other stuff…)
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WEB SITES
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- LiteStep Commands ~ KSR (3:21pm 17.11)
“I have updated the site with hopefully a better look. I
would appreciate some suggestions.”
url – http://krabourn.tripod.com/index.shtml
(source: LS Mailing List ~ Litestep Commands)
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PROGRAMS
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- Playwav 1.0a ~ Pavel Vitis (12:11pm 15.11)
“I rewrote playwav.exe into C (LCC compiler). It is now much
smaller, 3.5kB only, as it should be. Give it a try.”
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://tinomen.chunkymunky.com)
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Tips
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- If your stuck on something, try referring to some documentation. I
know that alot of the documentation is lacking, but there is some
out there and alot of the questions I answer could have been
answered by the users reading the documentation.
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Retro
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- Theme Changer 1.0.1 ~ BaRtMaN (September 21, 1998)
This is a command line theme changer. It’s not very
effective as you have to have a certain dir structure
but it’s one of the first theme changers I have found.
download – http://www.chunkmunky.com/lsweekly/retro
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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 221099
Changes
- Changes [lsapi/lsapi.c, litestep/litestep.c / jugg]:
o Re-added the commands that jugg renamed (PixmapPath, etc).
This will allow for some transition time for those slow to
change.
- Preview – b24.5 build 221099
Changes
- all features of cvs-build 1999/10/22.
- 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
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