The run box comes up fine and everything but no matter what directory I type into the box it always comes up on the same directory. Why is this?
What run box are talking about ?
How do you type directories ?
Is "My documents" the "same directory" ? Try using ""
(all under win95)
if I type C:\windows\ into a run dialog I get my desktop dir with recyclebin and network and all (ie not C:\windows\desktop\)
if i type C:\Litestep\ I get my desktop aswell....
Is this the "same dir" you are talking about ?
I cant really see why you care though ? is it a bug in LS that never used o be there ?
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it's universal... I think it's becuase without explorer as the shell, the run box doesn't know what to do with just a path entered in... if you type "explore c:\litestep" it should work
Use lsxcommands instead. Only a suggestion.
I hate LSXCommand.. I don't want it permantly there.. Not sure why, I just never got used to it sitting on my desktop all the time. It would help fill up my 800 pixels or so on my bar that I have no use for yet also but I don't know. I like my run box. I might have to make a custom run box with LSXCommand and some !hide and !show shit and throw it all in a script and make it nifty-like. Who knows?
you could even bind it to win-r and just have it replace the run box entirely...
That's what I was talking about..
step.rc:
*Hotkey Win R !PopupCommand
...
*LsBoxCreate $ConfigDir$command.box
script file:
*Script bang !PopupCommand
*Script exec !LsBoxShow Command
*Script exec !FocusCommand
*Script exec !LsBoxMoveBox Command %{mousex} %{mousey}
*Script ~bang
command.box:
LsBoxName Command
LsBoxX 0
LsBoxY 0
LsBoxBackGround lsx_frame.bmp
LsBoxBackgroundOffs 3 3 3 3
LSBoxDragRect 0 0 256 18
LsBoxZOrder STAYONTOP
LsboxAutoHide
LsBoxStartHidden
*ModuleHook !CommandBoxHook
should do the trick
that maybe a problem of dde, are you running liteman.ddl? if not, you should, that will probably fix it.
No, but I am running liteman.dll.. ;-)
it fixes some minor errors and stuff. it should be loaded in your personal.rc file.
What kind of errors ?
I know, one day I take a look at the readme and I thought it was a module for developper. So, I left it...
Can it be usefull even if you're not coding ?
LiteStep without Liteman.dll is like playing Freecell without a mouse.
I never play with freecell... but I'm playing with Litestep for about two years... and I never used Liteman.dll
What does it do ?
It gives DDE support for LS
The obvious question being: what is DDE?
Get the module and read the DOCS :)
From Loose Screws:
LiteMAN
Author: Peter Edwards
Version: 4.31
Date added: 2002-07-18 00:00:00
Description: A little work around to the "Install Shield checking for explorer.exe in the [boot], shell= section"
Acronym for Dynamic Data Exchange, an interprocess communication (IPC) system built into the Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2 operating systems. DDE enables two running applications to share the same data. For example, DDE makes it possible to insert a spreadsheet chart into a document created with a word processor. Whenever the spreadsheet data changes, the chart in the document changes accordingly. Although the DDE mechanism is still used by many applications, it is being supplanted by OLE, which provides greater control over shared data.
You can learn more from here:
http://www.taltech.com/TALtech_web/support/dde_sw/ddeunder.htm
BTW: Sorry for the multiple posts :)
Wow, now that is education.
Thanks. Interesting stuff.
Humm, I still don't understand why Litestep without LiteMAN is like the Freecell without a mouse...
I read the doc; don't really understand what it's talking about; load the module; check for new bangs (the doc doesn't mention anything about bangs - tanks to LsCP) try the !test and !test2...
not convinced...
Maybe I have missed something ?
You can try to format your computer, install windows, install LS, Run LS (without loading Liteman), install all your programs again. If you accomplish this task without error, all right, you're a lucky guy :) Otherwise you'll see what Liteman is about. :)
I should be a lucky one... but I work hard, sometimes, to avoid problems...
Don't you have some example of what LiteMAN can do ?
By saying "I don't know what LiteMAN could be important for", I never said it was useless. I just said "I DON'T KNOW AND THE DOC ISN'T VERY EXPLICIT".
Why such a mistery aura around LiteMAN ?
Smurth - I'm just kidding :) You don't have to do nothing that I have said.
Sometimes when you're installing a program that runs through an Install Shield and you're running other shell (in this case LS), the Install Shield search for this line on your system.ini - shell=C:/Explorer.EXE, if it can't find this line (cause this line has been modified - in our case to run an alternative shell), this can cause an error and the program will not work(it happened to me once).
That's it. No aura here :) Just use it. If you don't know, the new version of LS will come with this funcionality merged in it's core. Believe me, this will cause you no harm :)
Al; thanks a lot for all the enlightenments... Now, I'll can sleep in peace :)
Without LiteMAN, for example if you open the "fonts" folder in the control panel, there'll be an error message (sth. like "device not found") but the folder will open anyway. If you load LiteMAN the error message won't appear. That's just an example tho, LiteMAN does a few more things.
Finally, there's someone who talking in practical terms...