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 23.10.99 - 29.10.99 ---------------------------------------------------- With the recent lose of yet another great coder within the LS community, I think its time that the coders of the core start looking into what direction LS is going in. It seems as if its just "flopping around" with no real focus except to "pile feature ontop of feature. Is this what we really want from LS? A feature packed shell with no reguard to stabilty and bugs? Sounds an awful lot like windows if you ask me. Throwing bells and whistles into the code instead of trouble shooting problems and cleaning up. I think its time for the coders to stop, take a step back, and try to come to some agreement among them- selves as to what direction LS is going in. If not, we may finally be seeing the end of a great shell. - demigod --------------------------- TOP NEWS STORIES --------------------------- - Desktopwatch.com Reviews LiteStep (2:53pm 26.10) I just crused over to desktopwatch.com and noticed that they did a little review of LS. Although they got the version number wrong, they did give it a 92/100 overall rating. Worth the read imo. url - http://www.desktopwatch.com/ (source: http://www.desktopwatch.com/) --------------------------- MODULES --------------------------- - Recycler 4.0.0 ~ Joachim Calvert (10:15am 25.10) "I've upgraded the graphics system again, and this time I've tested it. There are still some minor flaws, but in general, it should be smooth as silk. I've started to use the LSAPI commands to load the images, so if you have Murphy's preview build, you can use any format supported by his LSImpGfx plugin. "I've also abandoned the 'modules.ini' to allow the module to be themed more easily. I'm sorry for this, but it would come sooner or later anyway. I hope not too many will be upset about this. "The "true" transparency in the earlier versions has now been totally abandoned, as the new graphics system is more than capable of handling it by itself. Whenever the display gets corrupted, you need only to click on it to force a complete redraw. For some odd reason the first click isn't registered, but I'm working on it." url - http://hem.passagen.se/jcalvert/software e-mail - jcalvert@hem.passagen.se (source: LS Mailing List ~ Recycler 4.0.0) +---------------+ - Rainmation 0.3 ~ Rainy (10:22am 25.10) "New version of the Litestep animation plugin Rainmation has been released. New features include animation control with !Bangs." url - http://www.iki.fi/rainy/products.html e-mail - rainy@iki.fi (source: chunkymunky.com) +---------------+ - LSWallpaper 1.5 ~ Visigoth (9:35am 27.10) "Welp, I felt like updating my LSWallpaper module to do some nifty stuff... so I did. This was the first module I wrote and it turned out nobody really wanted it. I couldn't quite figure out why people wanted to keep the same boring wallpaper on their screen forever. In any case, there's only one functionality change, which is you can stop a wallpaper from loading by holding down Shift at startup. The other change is LSWallpaper now has a graphical configuration utility. (note: It doesn't edit your step.rc, just its own wallpapers.list file)." url - floach.pimpin.net/visigoth e-mail - gandhimail@worldnet.att.net (source: floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - LSDesktopWallpaper 0.53 ~ Fizzie (11:23am 29.10) * fixed bug causing long weather conditions (e.g., "Light Rain Showers") to be truncated * changed module name to "WeatherDesk" (thanks to Glenn Krutsinger for the idea) * changed all step.rc commands from "DesktopWeather..." to "WeatherDesk..." * changed bang command names to !ShowWD, HideWD, and !ToggleWD * implemented support for people behind proxies...if you're behind a proxy and still have problems, please let me know * added feature to overlay weather condition-specific graphic on top of WeatherDesk * included 18 bitmaps to work with the condition-specific graphic feature * added feature to optionally scroll text while cycling (see WeatherDeskScrollDuringCycle for more info) * added new bang command: !MoveWD x,y * WeatherDeskX and WeatherDeskY now accept negative parameters * added WeatherDeskStartHidden command * added metric unit support (see WeatherDeskFormat variables) url - http://chunkymunky.com/module e-mail - fizzie7@excite.com (source: litestep.net) --------------------------- THEMES --------------------------- - One Small Step ~ Crawford (11:35am 29.10) "Theme based on the greatest event in my life time. It's basic but I hope you enjoy using it." url - litestep.net e-mail - stoney@fullcomp.com.au (source: litestep.net) --------------------------- WEB SITES --------------------------- - LSDev Web Site (9:34am 27.10) "If you didn't already read, we now have a backend on this site, which should keep some of the site a little more maintainable, since I was the only one not having problems before.... in any case you'll notice the Must See Sites section over there, its a list of the sites that are very important (besides this one =P) The new addition over there is the LS Dev Team site.... note this is different from the LSDev site, which is Dustin's site where he easily maintains the new builds. The LS Dev Team site is the official site of the Litestep Dev Team, where you will finally have a place to see official devteam news. We'll probably have one person maintaining the site with weekly dev team updates on what is going on, but we think this should really really improve communication, and understanding of what we are doing. There are some neat things being planned out, and hopefully work will begin soon on b25.. Yay!" url - http://lsdev.litestep.net/ (source: floach.pimpin.net) --------------------------- PROGRAMS --------------------------- - LSTweaker 1.59 ~ Epsylon3 (10:29am 25.10) - Enhance Module TabSheet - New Definitions %%UPDATE%% (11:19am 29.10) - RealSize Editor : Fix Screen Size, Zoom Fit and BackGround - Plugins : now include Combo Boxes, Color Edits and Font - Popup : Fix PopupFolder:"" Modules : - Remove Path of Files in LiteStep Dir - Take desktop.dll the first module in the list Finally : Optimize some Code url - tweak.cjb.net e-mail - epsylon3@ifrance.com (source: litestep.net) +---------------+ - Edit.RC ~ Dana Browder (11:28am 29.10) "For the past week or so, I've been working on a Step.rc editor. I'm not sure how many people will actually want to use it, but here's where I'm at. "The name is Edit.RC - because I'm bland. It's written in Visual Basic :( I'm *just* learning C and I know nowhere near what it takes to make it in that. Maybe some day. It uses tabs to open multiple .RC files at once, and then they can be saved to their seperate .RC files, or they can be 'saved merged' which will build them all into a single step.rc "That's *basically* all it does right now. So it's not much of anything, therefore I name this a 'Preview Release'... just to see if anybody is interested." url - http://hepkat.com/editrc/ e-mail - az@hepkat.com (source: LS Mailing List ~ Step.rc Editor - Edit.RC) --------------------------- MISC --------------------------- - Uedit and SynEdit syntax files ~ Kelly Rabourn (9:38am 25.10) I have got the UltraEdit and SynEdit Syntax files up at Litestep Commands. url - http://members.tripod.com/krabourn/index.html e-mail - krabourn@bigfoot.com (source: LS Mailing List ~ Syntax Files) +---------------+ - Kill process kit ~ Fraxinus (10:19am 25.10) "OK, I have put up my little kill-kit, featuring a whole bunch of GNU tools. It should work fine under NT (with cmd.exe), and it may work under 95 (unable to test when at school). "The batch file is called killps.bat. Make sure the exe's are in the dir as the bat, or you would have to change the paths in the batch-file, or change the PATH variable (or put the exe's in your PATH). I dont know about the licenses of the tools, but Im quite sure they are free, and probably GNU. "And, if you already have the tools, then you may not need to replace them with these (but there could be problems, especially with sed)." url - http://www.student.ibg.uu.se/~hugoa/xmarksthespot/ e-mail - fraxinus@home.se (Source: LS Mailing List ~ OT: kill-kit) .................................... ---- Tips ---- - This weeks tip comes from Gargamale on #ls_help. He considers sysedit to be an underrated app, and I agree. instead of searching for system.ini use sysedit goto run dialog .................................... ----- Retro ----- - LSRun b1 ~ TaLoN^LzR (December 15, 1998) "lsRun is a wharfmodule for LiteStep. Using this module you don't have to pull up the god old microsoft rundialog anymore under your Litestep-shell. You just push a wharfbutton (just like any other wharfbutton) and there you are - A fully BMP'able run dialog with all the M$ goodies on it. And what's best with it is it's NO M$-code in it! - Even though it behaves just like the old one, all the functions including the function which draws the textbox is written by me!" download - chunkymunky.com/lsweekly/retro/lsrun.zip .................................... ------------- Latest Builds ------------- - Official - b24.5 build Changes - Preview - b24.5 build Changes .................................... ------------- 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