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  LSWEEKLY LiteStep Related News 11.03.00 - 17.03.00
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	Recently, I have been lurking on the mailing list of the
up and coming shellexperts.com site.  This is comprised mostly of
a lot of newbies and a few people who have been around for a bit.
My first impressions of this little group are WOW.  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

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      TOP NEWS STORIES
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- 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)"

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          MODULES
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- 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)

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           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)

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          WEB SITES
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- 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)

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          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)

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 Tips
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- 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

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 Retro
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- 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.

....................................

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 Latest Builds
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- 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

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