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I'm open to all rants and raves.  Send me a mail at demigod@chunkymunky.com, any subject, and tell me what you think.   LSWEEKLY LiteStep Related News 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 ---------------------------      TOP NEWS STORIES --------------------------- - 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)                            +---------------+ - 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)                            +---------------+ - 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... /. !!!) ---------------------------           MODULES --------------------------- - 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)                            +---------------+ - 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)                            +---------------+ - 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)                            +---------------+ - 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) ---------------------------            THEMES --------------------------- - _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) ---------------------------           WEB SITES --------------------------- - 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) ---------------------------           PROGRAMS --------------------------- - 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 ***) .................................... ---- Tips ---- - Tips will resume next letter. .................................... ----- Retro ----- - Retro will resume next letter. (btw, if you have some old, or other   wise unknown module, PLEASE send it my way for this section.) .................................... ------------- Latest Builds ------------- - 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. .................................... ------------- 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 .................................... ----------- 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