is this a new idea? setting up personal shortcuts? Ones that apear in all themes? One I was thinking of was doing a transparent gif cutout of a character, like a cartoon character or anime, or real person... whatever, you could reposition it in different themes, but always have the standard stuff there?
The personal dir ("$LitestepDir$Personal\") had been made for that: put the stuff you want to make availlable in all OTS compliant themes. Don't you know OTS or I misunderstood the question ?
oh, I understand how I'm going to do it, and that's how, I was just wondering if other people had done something like this with shortcuts, I'm never done it myself, I usually just mess with my popup and leave the graphics to the theme.
If I'm not an idiot, all you want to do is to make animated shortcuts.
If you're running under Win2K/XP, you could use Layercut.dll to easily do it. I guess you could use regular shortcut3, too, but I never tried it extensively. Then...
alright, I'll go readup on layercut then, Thanks!
Humm, after making animations, take a look at LSDynamic.dll which allow you to move shortcuts or whatever by mscripts (macros)...
I'm not too worried about it being animated just yet, being able to figure out how to make it show up would sure be nice... I'm copying the syntax right out of the doc and also from places it works in themes, and putting those lines in my personal.rc, but the image isn't showing up...
I guess you stored your images in your personal dir. Then, be sure you specify the full path for the images if they aren't placed in $LSImageFolder$... If you placed them in their default dir ("$ThemeDir$Images\", generaly), you'll have to make some tests.
First try with single images (no animations). If this doesn't work, you'll have to check why.
I think it was a load order issue, I was giving the *shortcut line before any dlls were loaded that could do anything witht that... so I added it to the main step.rc after the theme include... and it works now! though for some reason it's not working like I want it to for clicks...
*shortcut "master" -145 -281 "C:\LiteStep\images\Know_Thy_Master-icon.png" .none .none #77k .none .none !recycle
About the actions... everything is in the doc...
Sorry
don't be sorry, I just went back and went over it more carefully, and found it... I'd put a k after the group, which makes it image only... taking that off, and the extra .none that I didn't need... it works now, just have it doing the !popuptheme right now...
Fine. A new themer is born...
About the shortcuts "that appear in all themes" - this is what evars.rc is for. That way the themer isn't restricted to shortcut lines but can also put your apps into a wharf for example.
I do use the evars, and like it when a theme has all of them in use, but alot of themes don't have that... I like quick launches, and I can see myself setting this up as a sliced image with all the shortcuts I need that aern't always there...