on my comp (win2k) newest version of ls the start meny wants to stay on top when i go in games, any suggestions? reply if you need more info... thx
well, first of all, it's not called the start menu. second, read the forums. there's probably dozens of threads on this problem.
I did read the forums, probly 10 pages of posts, even searched for anything that would bring up this problem.
I figured id call it a start menu because everyone would know what I mean... this lousey response to someone asking for help obviosly doesnt help the litestep community forums.
If people were to be so unhelpfull on the amdmb forums where I help out and post almost everyday I dont think anyone would get any problems solved.
All you need to do is go to your hotkeys.rc folder and add a hotkey that does the command !Hideall. For instance mine is Ctrl W. Whenever i load up a game i hit that and everything hides, you will also need a hotkey for !Showall which is used to bring your start menu back when your done playing. If you need help on making hotkeys look at your hotkeys.rc file and there should be a few examples in there about how to hotkey Bang commands.
pivtx, sorry for being short with you, but there's on average of one new thread every couple weeks about this same topic. however, I just did a search in the forums for "game", and it brought back 7 results. looking through them quickly, I saw 4-5 threads which I remember concerned the same problem. so, I'm not sure where you were looking, but the stuff is there, if you look hard enough.
and, mr_goat, are the !hideall and !showall bangs dependent on a specific module? because I just tried them, and they don't do work. and those bangs don't show in my lscp as valid bangs.
Ok i guess my theme is special, ill Post the code for !hideall and !showall from my rc files and ill also post my hotkey files so you guys can take a look.
This is the code for hideall and showall commands in the theme i use.
*Script bang !Hideall
*Script exec !ShortcutGroupHide 2
*Script exec !DwarfToggleShow 1
*Script exec !SystrayHide
*Script exec !taskshide
*Script exec !chronoshide
*script exec !geekamphide
*script exec !commandhide
*script exec !vwmHide
*script exec !RainmeterHide
*Script ~bang
*Script bang !Showall
*Script exec !ShortcutGroupShow 2
*Script exec !DwarfToggleShow 1
*Script exec !SystrayShow
*Script exec !tasksshow
*Script exec !chronosshow
*script exec !geekampshow
*script exec !commandshow
*script exec !vwmShow
*script exec !RainmeterShow
*Script ~bang
Here is the Things i have added to my hotkey.rc file so that i can do them during games.
*Hotkey Ctrl W !hideall
*Hotkey Ctrl+Alt W !showall
If you want to create hideall and showall it depends on which modules you use so different ones will have to be hidden.
ok, gotcha. !hideall and !showall are actually scripts. ok, now it makes more sense.
Just a note for pivtx that the above code will have to be modified for which ever theme you are using. Since every theme is different there will always be different elements to hide.
Yeah i said that just not as clear :-D
Thanks guys... I had a problem with the search on the top because when I typed in some words it would bring up alot of resaults ie. if I typed in in it would bring up anything with that in it such as intresteing etc... not a very good search I may add, even when I put quotes in it... but nevertheless thank you ill mess with the bangs.
another question... I had it working fine on a couple themes cause they used taskbar3.dll as the core... and i could have the taskbar set to false for alwaysontop... but i got a really nice theme off of deviantart and it uses desktop2.dll as its core, is there a command like the one for taskbar3.dll to make it so it isnt always on top?
using a script to hide the taskbar is just as much of a nuisance as ending the process litestep.exe and using run to play a game...
anyways if you have any ideas please tell me
I dont know about the desktop2.dll question but if you create a bang command and hotkey it, its extremely simple. If you need help look for a creating bang commands tutorial or just ask again on here and myself and others will try to help you! Hotkeying is the way to go.
I dont know where you put the script info, you put the !bang under hotkeys right?
The script info is a configuration setup for a module called mzscript.dll, which allows you to do a certain amount of scripting for LS as well as create customized bangs. If all you want to do is execute several bangs, you can also use !Execute, e.g. "!Execute [!SystrayHide][!TaskbarHide]" etc, for the number of modules you need to hide. That would actually be the preferrable way if you're not currently using mzscript.dll anyway.
As for the last question you asked, desktop2 and taskbar3 are not comparable modules. Desktop2 has no gui components whatsoever. If you're seeing something that does have some sort of GUI that's staying on top, it's some other module.
Hi, I've read this, but I'm still confused :(...You say that it is script dependent, I use the NanoStep theme, can someone help me figure this out? i'm still having the same problem with the taskbar showing through the game.. your help is appreciated..thanks
- Open the step.rc file for the theme.
- Take a look at what modules are being loaded.
- Read the docs for each module to see what it does
- If the module displays graphics or text on the screen read the doc more to find the !bang command to hide the graphic or text
- Gather all the bangs necessary to hide all the elements of theme and put it into a script like Mr_Goat demonstated above. This particular script requires you to include mzscript.dll in the theme.
- Don't forget to create a similar script to "show" all the graphics again :)
Let us know if it's still not clear.