29.01.00 – 04.02.00
Oh my, I quit doing this originally because of the bickering
on the list and in #litestep and I can’t believe the same issues are
resurfacing again! GUI interface! No GUI interface! YES! NO! YES!
AAAHHHHHHHHHH! Work this out would you!! All the dev’s need to get
together and just decide on one direction and run with it. Usually
I’m all for taking into consideration the end user, but this battle
is getting far too old for me. I’m sure the dev’s know each side of
fight and hopefully they have taken that into consideration. I know
that Maduin knows as he was part of the old dev team before the mess
started. To the end users now, give the devs a chance. Each major
release (read b23 to b24 not sub releases like b24.4 to b24.5) had
incorporated alot of changes. From 23 to 24 all delphi was ripped out
and alot of new ideas were added and LiteStep is still around. Lets
just see what will happen.
- demigod
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- State of the Step: Litestep Status Report (4:54pm 31.01)
Looks as if Headius has written up a very indepth look into
the way LiteStep is going now and what each member is doing. I
am going to make a local copy of it available for your viewing
pleasure.
url – http://www.chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/state.txt
(source: LS Mailing List ~ State of the Step: Litestep …)
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MODULES
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- lsamp v2 b1 ~ gustav (1:30pm 31.01)
“lsAmp v2 beta 1 is now up for public release…
as it is in a very early beta-stage, I can’t guarantee that
everything will be working correctly.
major improvements over version 1:
* it’s capable of launching external commands and !bangs apart
from the built in winamp ones
* the wharf is no longer required (don’t know if wharf-mode
works though, because I’ve never tried it)
* entirely configured through step.rc
* properly documented ( think a lot of people will be glad
about this one )
* and lots of other new stuff”
url – http://home.swipnet.se/grd/ls/
e-mail – grd@swipnet.se
(source: LS Mailing List ~ welcome to the wonderful world …)
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- grdTray 1.0 pre-beta 1 ~ gustav (1:34pm 31.01)
“a system tray Load Module grdTray is heavily based on maduin’s
systray.dll. The reason I made my own version of the module is
that I couldn’t configure it correctly. I made it easier to
configure (for people like me) and I added some code and
removed some.”
url – http://home.swipnet.se/grd/ls/
e-mail – grd@swipnet.se
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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- quickbox 1.3 preview ~ Epsylon3 (11:21am 02.02)
- Added Windows File Context Menu
- Added Bang !QBoxReload
- AlphaBlend Fade Effect on Hide/Show in Win2k
- Added Full Drag&Drop
- Added Variable QBoxShowExt
- Fix Sort of Icons (Problem between Lower and UpperCase)
- Skins for Prev and Next Scroll Buttons (QBoxPrevSkin
QBoxNextSkin)
url – http://lsfr.cjb.net/
e-mail – epsylon3@ifrance.com
(source: http://lsfr.cjb.net/)
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- jDesk 2.1 ~ jugg (03.02 10:08)
! Fixed background refresh problems.
! Fixed desktop window from not resizing when the
screen resolution is changed.
! Fixed WorkArea from not updating when the
screen resolution is changed.
url – http://jugg.logicpd.com
e-mail – jugg@earthling.net
(source: http://jugg.logicpd.com)
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THEMES
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- TorchDragon Original Theme v.1 ~ torchdragon (02.02 11:48am)
“This is my first ORIGINAL theme, developed after I managed to
do a major rip-off of 3 other themes… Well, hopefully this
will help make amends. This is a semi-minimal theme,
wharf-less, and not too big. This theme includes LSBuild
v.1/20/00″
url – http://www.litestep.net
ss – http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/TorchDragonSS.jpg
e-mail – bryan@netcarrier.com
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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- IndoSteal v1.2 ~ .tech.SpideR (03.02 12:02pm)
“This is my semi-minimalistic theme. It will work with any
resolution at or over 1024×768. I might put out a 800×600
version later this week. I think it came out pretty well
and i hope you DL it.”
url – http://www.litestep.net
ss – http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/screen-feb-2.jpg
e-mail – failet@infoave.net
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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Tips
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- I got this tip from kali on the DarkStep web board a while back.
Seems kali uses a .bat file to update core components. Doing a
multiple command shortcut, hotkey, or popup item can accomplish this in
one click or key stroke. First you need a command line zip/unzip util.
Then you need to make up the .bat file to unzip all the file to your
litestep dir and overwrite all. Finally have the .bat file restart
litestep. A popup line might be something like:
*Popup “Update LiteStep” !quit !execute update.bat.
I could probably write up a .bat file for this with a mildly decent
interface, if anyone would be interested in this, shoot me an e-mail
about it.
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Retro
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- First dev build ~ Fahim (March 3, 1999)
Ok here is the first dev build I could find. At this time in
LS development, only Fahim was an active coder. Alot of
popup work was being done and some cleanup to the older code.
download – chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/retro/ls-bin-010399.zip
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Latest Builds
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- Official – b24.5 build 310199
Bugfixes, new code [litestep, winlist, core, popup, desktop,
wharf / Headius / 1-29-00]
o Re-implemented Window List as a COM object (vtbl
only; dispatch is forthcoming)
o Modified popup, wharf, desktop, litestep to use new
IWindowList interface
o Modified litestep to load IWindowList instance from
dll
o Re-fixed popup bug, thanks to Fahim for finding the
original problem
o Re-implemented DLL Module Manager as a COM object
(vtbl only; dispatch is forthcoming)
o Modified litestep to use the new IModuleManager
interface
o Created new projects: core, winlist, dllmgr
o Core contains the interface definitions for
the core services
o winlist contains the standard
implementation of the IWindowList
interface
o dllmgr contains the dll implementation
of the IModuleManager interface
o Threading temporarily removed from module loading
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