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I can't believe how organized they are compared to just about any other site or the community as a whole. No premature launch of the site. No bickering if something isn't to someones liking. Just a lot of discussion, action, discussion, tweaking, discussion, more tweaking. THIS is the way LiteStep should be. None of this flame wars on the list. None of the childish messes that I have been witness to lately. Once the site is up and running, I can almost assure you that it will do nothing but get better and better and with a minimum of problems too. I suggest everyone in the community take a page out of there book and consider actually working together instead of trying to either one up each other or out do each other. - demigod --------------------------- TOP NEWS STORIES --------------------------- - Dev team needs your help again (12:42pm 16.03) "Attention Litesteppers! "Litestep has been getting more and more stable over the past couple weeks, but we're still working to track down a couple resource leaks. We hate trying to find resource leaks, especially ones like this that do not cause problems for a considerable amount of time. I'd like to request, on behalf of the devteam, that you folks try to help us out a bit. "What we need to eliminate leaks is to narrow them down to a particular module or a particular action. The easiest way to watch for resource leaks is to use a resource monitor. Using a monitor, try performing various shell actions, running with and without various modules, and generally poking and prodding Litestep until you see the resources go up but never come back down. Once you can reproduce the leak, let us know where you found it. "There are several good resource monitors. I personally use the Windows 2000 Task Manager. The Task Manager has a tab that displays process information, called "Processes". When on this tab, go to the menu "View/Select Columns" and add the columns "GDI Objects" and "USER Objects" to your display. The other columns can be selected to search out other leaks and problems...be our guest. I have not been able to get this to work in NT4, and obviously there's no TaskManager in Windows 9X, so if someone knows another good resource monitor, please post it to the list!! "What we are looking for is leaks in USER and GDI objects and memory leaks in general ("Mem Usage" in TaskManager). The tighter you can narrow things down the better...reporting that a particular module seems related to the leak is good; reporting that clicking the left mouse button on the right icon in that module causes the leak is *much* better. "The sooner we find these leaks, the sooner we'll have a release out...this is the most critical of all problems with the current builds. We're counting on your help! Thank you! - Charles Nutter (Headius)" --------------------------- MODULES --------------------------- - LSWchanger 1.2 ~ Tzvetan Raikov (9:55am 13.03) "LSWchanger is another wallpaper changing module, BUT, this one is REALLY cool: - can use a list with images in .BMP, .PCX, .JPG and .PNG file formats - can change the current picture at a specified interval of time - can be controlled by using of !bang commands" %%UPDATE%% (9:46am 15.03) - litestep directory can be different from c:\litestep - other bugs fixed url - http://www.geocities.com/wchangerbg e-mail - craikov@hotmail.com (source: http://www.desktopian.org) +---------------+ - grdTray 2.0 b2.1 ~ Gustav Munkby (11:30am 13.03) grdTray is a system tray replacement module for LiteStep which provides greater control over appearance, placement and icon layoutClick. Grab it Here to get it. What's new. - completely rewritten in a c++ object-oriented way - new IconHue effect included - fixed some bugs and tweaked the code a lot - made it open-source [ see source license ] - temporarily removed the bang-commands %%UPDATE%% (12:56pm 15.03) Changes for v2 b2: - IconHue effect is recoded (no need for msimg32.dll) - Saturation (or rather desaturnation effect added) - re-added the bang-commands Changes for v2 b2.1 - actually deletes the deleted icons from memory - fix for applications not removing their icons on termination, such as ICQ - swapped the Icon Hue effect colors, to make it RGB instead of BGR url - http://home.swipnet.se/grd/ls/ e-mail - grd@swipnet.se (source: http://www.chunkymunky.com/modulo) +---------------+ - V_Bang 1.98 ~ Blkhawk (11:20am 14.03) - I did a *total* rewrite of the volume control Interface - I did also a rewrite of the rest of the Module (Ok, I DID copy&past some parts ;) - The Channels are now counted from 0 instead of -1... 0 is now the main Volume instead of -1. - Changed the way the !bangs are to be called.... Always use brackets! "!Volume_Up [0]" - you can now use !Set_Volume to set the Left/Right channels to different values: "!Set_Volume [0,50,60]" This sets the main volume with 50% volume on the left and 60% on the right Channel. - You can grab the Source from my HomePage ;) - It Should work with the old LsSlider 0.7 url - http://www.blkhawk.de e-mail - blkhawk@blkhawk.de (source: LS Mailing List ~ New V_Bang) +---------------+ - MidPop 1.5 ~ Spectra9 (2:42pm 14.03) Got this sent to me via news@chunkymunky.com: "Hi, I'm sending the updated version of MidPop (1.5) for Litestep, a module for displaying the popup menu with middle button mouse click. It fixs the "cannot find initmoduleex" error among other things and also added exclusion list support. Thanks." url - http://www.desktopian.org e-mail - illusion@cryogen.com (source: Spectra9 via e-mail) +---------------+ - bscript 1.1 ~ Tzvetan Raiko (9:45am 15.03) - litestep directory can be different from c:\litestep - Now can execute files - other bugs fixed url - http://www.geocities.com/wchangerbg e-mail - craikov@hotmail.com (source: http://floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - lsrc 1.2 ~ Tzvetan Raiko (9:46am 15.03) - litestep directory can be different from c:\litestep - other bugs fixed url - http://www.geocities.com/wchangerbg e-mail - craikov@hotmail.com (source: http://floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - Systray 1.04 ~ Maduin (3:26pm 16.03) - bugfix: an application re-adding an existing icon caused a GDI resource leak url - http://maduin.dasoft.org e-mail - maduin@dasoft.org (source: http://www.desktopian.org) +---------------+ - LsTransparent 1.0.0.8 ~ Carluchi (12:10pm 17.03) "LsTransparent is a module that allows you to make most litestep modules transparent with some simple settings and !bang commands. You can control the level of transparency as well. You can also fade in and out these modules with !bang commands. "This module is a BETA module, so expect bugs. "The module works in Win9x WinNT and Win2K. "It does not make every module truely transparent like some other applications do in Win2k. It paints the modules to give the appearence of them being transparent. Think of it as a poor man's real time Alpha Blending." url - http://floach.pimpin.net e-mail - carluchi@stratos.net (source: http://floach.pimpin.net) --------------------------- THEMES --------------------------- - GeoCube 1.0 ~ pulsar (2:39pm 14.03) "Version 1.0 of GeoCube is ready! I think i've included everything, if something is missing or it doesn't work or something, mail me and let me know so I can update it. The SS is the same as yesterday because it hasn't changed.." url - users.cyberzone.net/~shade682 ss - http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/geocubess1.gif e-mail - shade682@cyberzone.net (source: http://www.litestep.net) --------------------------- WEB SITES --------------------------- - Litestep2000 get's a new home ~ jalist (12:14pm 17.03) jalist moved his site litestep2000 on over to chunkymunky (http://www.chunkymunky.com/litestep2000/) This is a UK LiteStep site, and worth the visit imho. url - http://www.chunkymunky.com/litestep2000 e-mail - jalist@litestep2000.co.uk (source: http://www.chunkymunky.com) --------------------------- PROGRAMS --------------------------- - lsDrinks 2.1.6 ~ nf0 (11:26 14.03) Changes since last version: - 2.1.6 Added Geeknews.org, Fixed Segfault - 2.1.5 Added After Y2k Cartoon - Added LiteStep.Net,Litestep.net Screen Shots (using backends from MrJukes and geekMASTR) - Added the ability for the script to create a directory if one doesn't exist so in including as the sub dirs is no longer needed. - 2.1.4 Changed Floach to read from Desktopian * Thanks Tin_Omen *, Changed Tin_Toys to Desktopian - Changed the htm page to added a different header and url, Added Shell City - 2.1.3 Added Astronomy Pic of the Day, Dilbert.FileForum Changed the Way Floach Works. - 2.1.2 Added User Friendly Strip. url - http://www.10500bc.org/lsDrinks/index.htm e-mail - nf0@10500bc.org (source: http://floach.pimpin.net) +---------------+ - !.exe ~ Maduin (3:18 15.03) Maduin has had this around for awhile I guess. It's a command line application that allows you to run any LiteStep !Bang command directly from a dos prompt. This little program opens a hoard of new ideas. url - http://maduin.dasoft.org e-mail - maduin@dasoft.org (source: http://floach.pimpin.net) .................................... ---- Tips ---- - Over at mindjunction.com, there is a list of all the clsid's for windows. This is extremely useful if you want to link a shortcut or popup to say dial-up networking or my computer. The url is http://www.mindjunction.com/articles.php3?main=Articles&item=4 .................................... ----- Retro ----- - Still no mods sent, but that could be because for some reason my @chunkymunky.com addy is dead. Please, if you were trying to send me some, mail them to demigod@meganet.net. .................................... ------------- Latest Builds ------------- - Official - b24.5 build 031300 Modified [lsapi, workspace, popup / Message / 03-12-2000] o Fixed lsapi crashing with an undeclared variable (envvar was being set to NULL, and then was being added to the map) o Removed lsutil from the desktop2 dependencies (per noodge) o Added MessageBox warning if lsapi finds an unitialized variable, will tell the variable, and the line o Fixed !popupdynamicfolder not displaying folders more than 3 levels deep o Fixed !popupdynamicfolder using the combined paths when executing .................................... ------------- 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 - Stuff To subscribe, e-mail: stuff-subscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za To unsubscribe, e-mail: stuff-unsubscribe@litestep.ru.ac.za Additional commands, e-mail: stuff-help@litestep.ru.ac.za