30.10.99 – 05.11.99

Last week I seemed to have made a bit of a ripple in the LS
community with my rant on the “flopping about” of LS.  This week
I would like to complain about people who say LS is horrible every
time a new shells comes along.  With the recent opening of the Ice
sites, this trend is becoming more and more evident.  People who
just yesterday were happy as clams with LS, are now saying how
horrible and restrictive it is.  BULL!!  Just because something new
comes along doesn’t mean you have to down what was fine yesterday.  I
can understand wanting to try something new and different, but going
off and saying how horrible LiteStep is just because another shell
is released is just plain wrong.  Each shell out there has its good
points and bad points.  Most of it is relative to what the person is
looking to do.  So to all of you out there that are saying “LiteStep
is nothing now that Ice is coming out.” I say to you that you are
wrong.  While I feel that LS does have some maturing to do, I DO NOT
think that because Ice is being released that LiteStep is now nothing,
crappy, worthless, or is going to die.

- demigod

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TOP NEWS STORIES
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- Ice preview site open (9:30am 05.11)

Well on the third the Ice dev team finally posted some ss’s
and a run down of IceShell.  A fancy flash production
precedes the rest of the site which not only gives an account
of the shell but a release date of the 20th of this month.

url – chunkymunky.com/ice
(source: chunkymunky.com)

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MODULES
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- LPopup 1.1 ~ _TAG_ (10:31am 01.11)

- it doesn’t rely any more on modified versions of desktop.dll
and popup.dll; instead it’s now linked to the !LPOPUP bang
command! (by popular request). For this reason a desktop
module able to assign bang commands to mouse clicks is
needed (the only one I know is jdesk)

- it keeps its own windows list, thus being independent from
desktop.dll or from litestep.exe (I’d really like for ls.exe
to keep its own windows list…)

- a list of commands supported by LPopup is included in the
readme

- it supports transparencies!!! (yet your popup needs to have
a fixed width, as every other popup out there)

url -  http://aula6.cjb.net
e-mail – dream.king@iol.it
(source: LS Mailing List ~ LPopup 1.1 is out)

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- ZagAmp ~ Peter Zag (10:44am 01.11)

“OK, this is a small addition to GeekAmp, that I made because
it irritated me (and others) that the geekamp commands
!amp_power and !amp_play starts winamp minimized (and
unmaximizable). So I added two band-commands: !amp_power2 and
!amp_play2. These two starts winamp in the same state as it
was in when you last closed it !!”

url – www.kampsax.dtu.dk/~zag/
e-mail – c971672@student.dtu.dk
(source: LS Mailing List ~ geekamp)

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- LSXCommand 1.7.8 ~ Visigoth (10:49am 01.11)

“Visigoth has released LSXCommand v1.7.8 for Litestep.
LSXCommand is a module that acts like the Windows Start/Run
box, with the ability to run !Bang commands. New features in
this version include:

- New Timer management
- Completely rewritten calculator source code
- AutoComplete crashing bug fixed

url – floach.pimpin.net/visigoth
e-mail -
(source: chunkymunky.com)

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- Ftp Url Cleaner 1.00 ~ Epsylon3 (11:05am 01.11)

“Clean Url is a LiteStep module that translates text with FTP
url(s) (login/password) to a valid(s) url(s)to the clipboard..
example: “ftp.truc.com l:ppp p:Pass port : 666″ in the
Clipboard, Result : “ftp://ppp:Pass@ftp.truc.com:666″ ”

url – http://lsfr.cjb.net (note: site in french)
e-mail – Epsylon3@ifrance.com
(source: chunkymunky.com)

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- Recycler 4.0.3 ~ Joachim Calvert (9:33am 03.11)

* Added the ‘RecyclerLegacyMode’ option to force the module
to update correctly on systems where the notification system
is unavailable.
* Fixed the updating when the module is hidden.
* Fixed some bugs in the docs, sorry if I confused you!
* Finally someone took the time to provide me with an
animation, let’s all give J. A. Portugal da Costa a big
hand!

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

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- WeatherDesk 0.54 ~ Fizzie (9:26am 05.11)

- created HTML help file
- added support for multiple cities (see HTML help file)
- added WeatherDeskAlwaysOnTop command

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

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- Chronos 1.4 ~ Maduin (9:27am 05.11)

- added support for multiple timezones (%TZ)
- added mouse button actions (ChronosOn*Click)
- removed %e specifier (redundant, use %#d)

url – maduin.dasoft.org
e-mail – maduin@dasoft.org
(source: litestep.net)

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THEMES
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WEB SITES
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- LSFAQ has a new look and home. (10:27 04.11)

I just went over to fpn and noticed that Necr0′s faq is now
being hosted there.  Not only is this a new home for it, but
it also has a nice new, clean look.  Stop by there if you have
any litestep related questions.

url – floach.pimpin.net/lsfaq
(source: floach.pimpin.net)

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- Litestep.com get a face lift (11:28am 05.11)

Litestep.com has gotten a totally new look.  Bob Wells has
handed over the reigns to WareWolf and he did some serious
overhauling to the site.  Stop by and give it a look see.

url – litestep.com
(source: litestep.com)

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PROGRAMS
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MISC
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- TRichView Transparent ~ TaLoN^LzR (10:26am 01.11)

“It gives you what u want… Just GetDC(0) or something to get
the DC of the desktop before you startup and BitBlt that onto
a TBitmaps (That you create for the purpose at the size of your
richview control) Canvas and then you .Assign() that bitmap
into the background property of the RichView and…  thats
it! =)”

url – http://www.torry.ru/vcl/edits/
e-mail – talon@online.no
(source: LS Mailing List ~ Step.rc Editor – Edit.RC)

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Tips
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- If you like the idea of split .rc files but don’t want to download
the #include test build, you can simply make a batch file with
the command copy step.rc+popups.rc+hotkey.rc step.rc and add
the batch file to the recycle command like [!execute combine.bat]
[!Recycle] and it will compile all your .rc files into step.rc.

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Retro
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- Wharf Toggle 1.0 ~ Bug*Killer (August 10, 1998)

Wharf Toggle is a small program to make the wharfbar
lose its always ontop feature.  From the readme:
“It’s a simple proggy that allows you to have a larger work
area by positioning the Wharfbar behind the other windows.
It’s really useful if, like me, you can’t break the 800×600
limit on your crappy 14″ without destroying your eyes on an
interlaced display and can’t bear Wharfbar auto-hide
feature.”

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

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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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