22.01.00 – 28.01.00
Well, its been just about two months or more since I’ve sent
but here it is! After all the fighting and then the quitting of almost
all the dev’s, I got fed up with the whole thing and decided to put
LSWeekly on hold. Then when things got going again, we had a huge mess
at my work that wiped out my system and at the same time all my files
and there backups. But that is in the past, and this is now. Expect
this to once again be weekly, packed (well not this week because of the
downtimes of the litestep sites and the changing of hands of jorje’s
sites) with LiteStep info, and my usual rant. So enough of my babbling,
on with LSWeekly!
- demigod
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- LiteStep being sold again (11:21am 25.01)
After the first go with SmartAlac, another group is now trying
to sell LiteStep on a shareware compiled cd. This time it’s
being offered on a dutch bid on e-bay being sold by someone
with the e-mail addy bsoft@netzero.net. Various legal and
ethical discussions have been going on about the selling of
LiteStep on the mailing list and in #litestep. This seems to
be one of the hotter topics to date.
url – http://www.ebay.com
(source – LS Mailing List ~ Ownership problems again)
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- Maduin rejoins dev team (12:04pm 28.01)
Just ran into Maduin in #ls_help and he told me some great
news. He has rejoined the LiteStep dev team! This is
terrific as I consider him one of the best coders LiteStep
has seen. Looks like were back in stride!
(source – Maduin in #ls_help)
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- LiteStep on Slashdot (7:17pm 28.01)
One last min piece of news before I send out this letter, it
appears as if LiteStep got some publicity on Slashdot. From
the letter sent to the list by Fraxinus (fraxinus@home.se):
“Wow, I saw that Litestep got quite some publicity, headius
posted a question on programming/policy/license relating to
litestep on slashdot.”
url – http://www.slashdot.org
(source: LS Mailing List ~ wow… /. !!!)
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MODULES
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- Tasks.dll .83 ~ jugg (11:10am 25.01)
- Fixed GDI resource leak in Paint handler.
- Fixed crash bug when using TasksAutoArrange.
- For devs, I changed several project settings, but mainly just
link/include paths.
- To help fix some transparency issues I added a command
“TasksTestTransFix”. Use it and let me know if you still get
transparency issues.
url – http://aster.omega2.com/jugg/
e-mail – jugg@earthling.net
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com)
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- Chronos 1.41 ~ Maduin (12:04pm 27.01)
- bugfix: %TZ didn’t affect the date.
url – http://maduin.dasoft.org
e-mail – maduin@dasoft.org
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo)
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- Rainmation 0.6 ~ Rainy (12:07pm 27.01)
- Animations can be played only once.
- Animations can now be started as disabled.
- !RAnimEnable starts playing always from the normal starting frame.
- Added !RAnimPlayFrames-bang which plays the given frames.
url – http://www.students.tut.fi/%7Erainy/products.html
e-mail - mailto:rainy@iki.fi
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo)
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- Hotspots 0.4a ~ Pavel Visis (12:10pm 27.01)
- Animations can be played only once. Hotspots tested under
WinNT, removed key-modifiers actions in WinNT/2K.
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/modules.htm
e-mail – mailto:pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo)
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THEMES
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- _MIUI_ ~ 000110 (12:11pm 26.01)
“——–===Only 249kb!===———– A small fast theme I
made last night. Very functional and not a lot of .bmp eating
up mem. Also included is a .vbs to free up memory (Default is
64MB) in a keystroke(Win+F).
———-===Download Now===———–”
url – http://www.litestep.net
ss – http://www.litestep.net/themes.php3?perform=zoom&tid=495
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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WEB SITES
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- Modulo and LSPortal have new webmasters (11:48am 27.01)
As you may or may not have heard, jorje has given up the
reigns on his LiteStep sites. He states that he doesn’t have
the time anymore to put into the sites. So, instead of just
throwing them away like so many others, he put out the word
for people to take them over. Yogib3ar and I have stepped up
and taken over. Yogi is now doing Modulo and I am running
LSPortal. Keep and eye out at these sites for changes in the
near future.
url – http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo
- http://www.chunkymunky.com/lsportal
(source: LS Mailing List ~ The End of Modulo and LS Portal)
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PROGRAMS
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- TileGen b2 ~ BlackHawk (6:39pm 21.01)
“I have got a new application in the making and just want to ask
you what you think about it. It is version two of an old Ls
tool of mine called TileGen. I had written TileGen to be able to
do textbased wharf tiles in a fast and easy way and then decided
to wrap it up and put it on my HP.
“Since the old TG was more than a bit limited and a few request
for new features piled in I decided to do a rewrite of it.
“It is still beta, because I hadn’t been able to test it, but
aside from scripting all features should be working. There is
also a little picture quality issue but i will fix that asap”
url – blkhawk.cjb.net
e-mail – blkhawk@Litestep.com
(source- LS Mailing List ~ *** TileGen 2 beta ***)
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Tips
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Retro
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- Retro will resume next letter. (btw, if you have some old, or other
wise unknown module, PLEASE send it my way for this section.)
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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 210100
Bugfixes, code rewrite, new code [litestep, desktop,
hookmgr / Headius, Message, NeXTer]
o Removed all hook-related code from desktop. Desktop
is now no longer an integral part of core (internal)
functionality.
o New HookManager code integrated into the system
allows modules to register for system messages as
well as shell messages.
o Core updated to use HookManager for hooks. Module
hookmgr is loaded internally by the system, and runs
in its own thread. DO NOT add hookmgr.dll to your
step.rc
o Updated lsapi to use WindowList instead of winList.
No core modules have dependency on the winList array
or on the LM_WINLIST message anymore. It is still
provided for backward compatibility, BUT WILL BE
REMOVED. We will publish the preferred replacement
soon.
o Updated lsapi to be .cpp, changes are as follows:
- There are two supported BangCommand
prototypes currently, “void BangCommand(HWND
hwnd, char* args)” and “void BangCommand(HWND
hwnd, char* command, char* args)”. Var-len
param list version is deprecated and is not
likely to work anymore. We would like people
to move to the 3 param version.
- Minor typecasting fixes
o Minor rework of core module loading sequences, some
exploration into exposing service interfaces to
modules.
o Fixes to make old trayicons go away when the app is
dead. Tray still seems to be broken, likely to be
tossed and rewritten.
o Fixes to prevent error messages about AppBtnClass
o Removed the easter egg bang
o Modified DLLModuleManager.LoadModule to allow passing
parameters to start a module in its own thread, with
its own message pump
o Other stuff I’m forgetting.
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