If you would like to unsubscribe from LSWeekly at any time, simply "Reply" to this message with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line, your e-mail address in the body, and I will remove you from the list. Stop by http://chunkymunky.com/lsweekly for past issues and other LSWeekly specific related news. Got some news? Wanna see it in LSWeekly? Well, shoot me a mail at demigod@meganet.net with the subject LSWeekly-News and I'll post it in the letter. Got a complaint? Got a compliment? Got an idea? I'm open to all rants and raves. Send me a mail at demigod@meganet.net, any subject, and tell me what you think. LSWEEKLY LiteStep Related News 09.10.99 - 15.10.99 ---------------------------------------------------- Well usually I reserve this space to rant about something that annoys me in the LiteStep community. This week though, I have some positive things to say. Over the past two weeks something has happened that has finally made people act. First Visigoth goes off and does a great tutorial in #ls_help. Now we have a themeing tutorial going on. This is what is needed, and I'm happy to see it happening finally. The bickering has toned down for a longer period of time than usual, action is replacing talking, and the core is being debugged and being made stable. I just hope that this trend continues as it's going. This could be the step that LS needs to make it to the next level. - demigod --------------------------- TOP NEWS STORIES --------------------------- - LiteStep on ARS Technica (11:13am 13.10) "I was browsing around and noticed an Intro to Litestep on ARS Technica, and its not too bad at all. Its a pity that nobody in the actual Litestep community can come up with a nice page like this, just maybe a tiny bit more up-to-date.. It is interesting to note that they mention WharfAnoid on the page, as well as FPN... whoohoo! url - http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q99/litestep/ litestep-1.html (note: url wraps) (source: floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - Themes Central Having LS Themeing Contest (9:53am 14.10) Don't know if everyone knows about this or not, but ph0tek (master of Themes Central) is having a Litestep theming contest. - Best Theme gets Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer - Best logo for Themes Central gets a copy of Homeworld, Unreal Tournament, or QIII Arena. Cool stuff just for making some graphics and slapping em together, eh? url - http://www.majorloss.com/litestep/ (source: LS Mailing List ~ Theme Contest) +---------------+ - New LiteSpawn Comming Soon (10:13am 14.10) Looks like one of my favorite shell managers is being updated again, this time with traysave support! "New LiteSpawn hitting the streets in the next week or two with all the goodies you guys have been asking for. TraySaver b10 compatibility, and ability to use the new -nostartup parameter in litestep.exe for more reliable shell swapping is all in there. I'll let you guys know when the gettin' is good..." (source: LS Mailing List ~ OT -- Icesphear --------------------------- MODULES --------------------------- - Rainmation 0.2 ~ Rainy (11:02am 11.10) New version of Litestep animation plugin has been released. New features include simple shortcut support with mouse event handling. url - http://www.iki.fi/rainy/products.html e-mail - rainy@iki.fi (source: chunkymunky.com) +---------------+ - LSRes.dll ~ MrJukes (11:05am 11.10) MrJukes has released (with the help of GeekMaster) a module called LSRes.dll. This module creates a bang command to change the desktop resolution. url - chunkymunky.com/modulo e-mail - mrjukes@purdue.edu (source: chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - WinCTRL 1.1 ~ Mirul (12:05pm 12.10) I've made some changes to winctrl and added some features. Try it and see whether I've stuffed anything up. Here's what's been done: - Fixed RemoveBangCommand for !WinHome - Fixed shaded window so that when manually extended down, it is considered unshaded. - Changed shade/unshade to work on maximized windows. - Changed !WinHome to be equivalent to !WinMove (see below) - Added !WinSendToBottom. - Added !WinUnshadeAll - Added !WinMove - Added !WinMaximize, !WinMinimize, !WinRestore - Added WinDialogsPosition url - litestep.net e-mail - mirul_@hotmail.com (source: litestep.net) +---------------+ - Recycler 3.1.1 ~ Joachim Calvert (10:44am 13.10) - Changed some microscopic things so that it no longer needs the 'LiteStepDir' variable to be set url - http://hem.passagen.se/jcalvert/software/ e-mail - jcalvert@hem.passagen.se (source: chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - geekPaster 1 ~ GeekMaster (10:46am 13.10) This module lets you use bang commands through hotkeys or in the popup to paste preset text strings into the active window. url - http://chunkymunky.com/modulo e-mail - lheddings@geocities.com (source: chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - LSDesktopWeather 0.51 ~ fizzie (11:01am 13.10) This module will display the current weather conditions on your desktop. You can specify a background image and control the display of temperature, dewpoint, winds, pressure, and humidity. %%UPDATE%% (3:56pm 13.10) - added windchill and heat index variables - added ability to launch weather page from right-click menu - fixed bug causing Tampa's weather conditions to always be displayed on some computers - fixed bug causing a greater than symbol (>) to be displayed in front of the value for humidity url - http://chunkymunky.com/module e-mail - fizzie7@excite.com (source: chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - V_bar 1.1 ~ BlackHawk (3:10pm 15.10) "Seems like I got those d**n bug ironed out. V_bar is now confirmed to be working under Windows 2000. I haven't been able to test it under WinNT yet, but it should run without problems, too. Those who had an crashOnRecycle problem with V_bar should be glad to hear that that issue is also fixed. "Featurewise I have added a new Bang command named !ToggleVBar and two new startup options, VBarStartHidden and VBarStartCollapsed. There are currently still *some* things to be done, like hide from alt-tab and the Alt-F4 problem but i thing that i will have them fixed till 1.1a in a few days." url - blkhawk.cjb.net e-mail - blkhawk49@geocities.com (source: LS Mailing List ~ ***V_bar 1.1***) +---------------+ - sysVWM-hints ~ pigeon(4:16pm 15.10) "Just grabbed the latest sysvwm source from the ls-src-current, and I added a new setting "VWMWindowsHints" for the step.rc, which enables displaying on windows' titles in the little vwm screen as tooltips when you move your mouse over different window indicator." url - http://pigeon.virtualave.net/litestep/ e-mail - pigeon@iname.com (source: LS Mailing List ~ sysVWM - VWMWindowsHints) --------------------------- THEMES --------------------------- - YogiStep r2 ~ Yogib3ar (1:52pm 14.10) "YogiStep Revision 2, contains updated modules, and a slicker design.. hope u enjoy." url - www.litestep.net e-mail - billydog@nycap.rr.com (source: Yogib3ar ~ #ls_help) --------------------------- WEB SITES --------------------------- - LSFR ~ LiteStepFrench Page open (11:51am 11.09) "I was chatting in #Litestep today, and Epsylon3 wanted me to mention the opening of LSFR. It's basicly your average Litestep site for French users. Enjoy!" url - http://lsfr.cjb.net/ (source: litestep.net) --------------------------- PROGRAMS --------------------------- - Window Mover ~ Two_toNe (11:33am 13.10) "I wrote a small program called Window Mover to regain windows lost by a VWM." This program also requires the vb5 runtime lib. url - http://home.inreach.com/2tone e-mail - 2tone@inreach.com (source: floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - TileGen ~ BlackHawk (9:33pm 15.10) "TileGen is a 64x64 tile generator for Litestep. You can generate as much as 10x the amount of tiles in the same time as with any painprogram. The program should be self-explaining, and there shouldn't be any bugs. Don't use it in 256 colour modus. "You can set the loaded picture by commandline, too. tileGen F_blank.bmp" url - blkhawk.cjb.net e-mail - blkhawk49@geocities.com (source: LS Mailing List ~ **** TileGen release****) .................................... ---- Tips ---- - If your having problems getting popup.dll revision x.x to scroll through your programs, try using SetDeskTopArea. Make a 10 pixel wide area at the bottom of your screen so the popups think that they are off the screen and will scroll up. .................................... ----- Retro ----- - SetBorder 1.1 ~ Klas Axelsson (Oct 28, 1998) This program was originaly made for late b23 builds and early b24.x builds before SetDeskTopArea was introduced. From the readme: "The purpose of this program is to change the area of the desktop used by a program when maximized. The DLL version is a LiteStep Plugin." download - chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/retro/setborder.zip .................................... ------------- Latest Builds ------------- - Official - b24.5 build 141099 Changes - BugFix [lsapi/lsapi.c / visigoth]: o Fixed jugg's fix to ParseBangCommand() (NOTE: lsxcommand is fine - strlen doesn't check for null pointers) - Preview - b24.5 build 300899 Changes - all features of cvs-build 1999/08/30. - 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 - !HELP command for calling help for !bangcommands (very unstable and resource leeking) (ex: !HELP POPUP) .................................... ------------- Mailing Lists ------------- - LiteStep To subscribe, e-mail: litestep-subscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za To unsubscribe, e-mail: litestep-unsubscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za Additional commands, e-mail: litestep-help@litestep.ru.ac.za - Offtopic Post message: offtopic@onelist.com Subscribe: offtopic-subscribe@onelist.com Unsubscribe: offtopic-unsubscribe@onelist.com List owner: offtopic-owner@onelist.com .................................... ----------- News Groups ----------- - Server news.emci.com litestep.installation.help litestep.steprc.help litestep.modulesini.help litestep.graphics.help litestep.themes.design litestep.themesrc.help litestep.core.suggestions litestep.general.coding litestep.general.questions