I wanted to try out litestep, and I've read the "litestep might not be for you if..." thread and I was fine with that.

i just installed litestep and updated. Now when I change a theme (crystalline) it tells me to download some modules, and all of them were downloaded but weren't installed... there were A LOT of them too. :(

How do I get by this?

thanks

Give us more info please. Things like what modules and how you know they weren't installed will help.

ok, when I try to switch to a new theme it tells me to download several modules, rainmeter 1.sumthing and xtaskbar sumthing, and there's a whole list of others as well. So I click the download button and it starts to download all of them but they come out with an "X" mark instead.

So I tried searching for other threads and I found your module sites and downloaded the modules manually, extracting them and putting them in the "modules" folder.

Then I tried to switch the them again, this time some of the modules came out with a "check" mark and some still came out with an "X" mark. Then the theme was switched but it was a bit incomplete (because some of the modules weren't installed)..

So the outcome is an incomplete crystalline theme.

add to your step.rc. You might also want to make sure that you have visual studio 2008 runtimes installed.

well I did that, and I installed visual studio 2008 runtimes... It still doesn't install the modules. :(

Which modules do you have a problem with?

xpaintclass-1.0
xstatsclass-1.1
lsxcommannd-2.0.2
xdesk-1.1
xtaskbar-2.2
xpopup-2.0.5
xlabel-4.1.5
xtray-2.1
dynamp-0.51
systemevents-0.2
comdlgls-0.7
rainmeter-0.13-32bit
rabidvwm-1.2.2
clickonic-1.1
mzscript-1.0.1

basically all the other themes i've tried to install comes out like this... NOTE: This happens in NetLoadModule window... I press download, they come out with "X" marks, and I click "Ok" when asked if I want to go back to the default theme because... none of the required modules were installed.

wahahah guess what... it was fixed.. a little..

i got tired and decided to NOT go back to the default theme after switching.. then since it failed to download the modules i came out with a blank screen, so I went to litestep folder and started litestep.exe and it showed netloadmodule again, and this time it was able to download the modules!!! yeah!!

but the problem is though, there's still the "failed to register hotkey" error and it said "rainmeter.dll was not found"...

at least the them is usable now, but I'm worried about those two errors that showed up. XD

The failed to register hotkey error is related to that I set win+r to show lsxcommand, and its most likely already set to run the system runbox in your personal/hotkeys.rc. You can comment out the *Hotkey line either in there or in theme.rc (which is in the directory of the theme you're currently running) to fix that.

The rainmeter.dll issue... uhm... you're supposed to pick a dll to load when it gets installed by netloadmodule, but you can do this to fix it.
1. Create a folder called rainmeter-0.13-32bit in your modules folder.
2. Get http://www.modules.ls-universe.info/modules/rainmeter-0.13-32bit.zip
3. Copy rainmeter.dll and all the .dll files from the Plugins folder into rainmeter-0.13-32bit.
4. Find NetLoadModule.ini (probably in LiteStep/NLM/) and add this line below [NetLoadModule]


After that, just recycle or restart litestep and everything should work :)

gee thanks, everything's working fine now. :) I love it... one thing though, what is the bar at the top for? And how do I change the winamp slot at the top right part of the screen into foobar? :)

Personally, I use the top bar for chat windows, but you can put any type of window you want on there. Just right click on it and go to "Chatbar Settings" -> "Define Chat Windows", and enter a mask for the titles or windowclasses you want up there, for example, "* - Notepad" will move all notepad windows up there. You can put in as many as you want, separated by semi colons.
As for foobar support, check out http://www.xdocs.ls-universe.info/pie.php?xStatsClass (just search the page for foobar)

alur et al (as the-golem would say): If you use modules like rainmeter, ckhotspots, lslua, the correct way to load these is

*Netloadmodule module-x load module.dll

ie:
*Netloadmodule rainmeter-0.13-32bit load rainmeter.dll

Thanks, THC4K, I actually read through through the netloadmodule documentation yesterday and stumbled upon that though ;)