JcRabbit

JcRabbit

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Reply to Massive 8.9 Earthquake in Japan in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

We already have a human catastrophe in Japan, but if what happened in Chernobyl happens there too, a 30 Km (19 miles) area around the reactor will have to be evacutated and will remain inhabitable for several years. This would be like nothing we have ever seen in an island the size of Japan, with over 127 million people crammed into it being exposed to the effects of nuclear fallout (not to mention that the nuclear reactor is right by the seaboard, and Japan is really

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Reply to Massive 8.9 Earthquake in Japan in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The Japanese are having trouble pumping cooling water into one of their nuclear reactors and have declared an emergency . If they're unable to fix the problem on time, it's Chernobyl all over again, but this time on a small island such as Japan. The whole country will become inhabitable. Deaths due to the earthquake and tsunami are already in the hundreds and climbing fast.

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Reply to Tabbed Dock is big blank rectangle in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="JMBdev" reply="7" id="2899406"]Jc - Wow, that's wild. I do have SetPoint software and aren't running into that but believe it. Though, I am confused as to how a WM_PAINT message can make a difference. I felt that WM_PAINTs just don't have effect on layered windows.[/quote] Yes, they shouldn't have any effect, but, i f you don't do this, W indows will assume that the window is still invalid and pump another WM_PAINT. It does this over and over, fl

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Reply to Tabbed Dock is big blank rectangle in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Dewie, tell Jeff Bargman about this - he will have to 'eat' WM_PAINT messages, which are sent by Setpoint, at the WndProc level for every layered window he uses in OD 2: Case WM_PAINT Dim lngExStyle As Long Dim ps As PaintStruct lngExStyle = GetWindowLong(hw, GWL_

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Reply to Tabbed Dock is big blank rectangle in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Are you running Logitech's Setpoint on both machines? If so, does uninstalling Setpoint make the problem go away? I'm asking this because I've run into this exact problem before - it was caused by Logitech's mouse driver software hooking into every process and sending supurious WM_PAINT messages to layered (alpha blended) windows. Only happened on x64 machines too.

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Reply to Winstep Extreme Update in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="21" id="2897061"]DOC ..... Jorge is teasin' us again![/quote] That's not a tease. The theme is finished, just needs to be put together. [e digicons]|-)[/e] March is going to be an exciting month, not so much in terms of 'new stuff' but in terms of consolidating and polishing what is already there.

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Reply to Winstep Extreme Update in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Winstep Xtreme is not hard to learn if you take into consideration all it does. Only problem is that it does so much that there is a lot to learn once you want to get past the basics. But learning all the new stuff is half the fun of it, at least in my opinion. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] If it helps, you can read the first draft of the new Winstep Xtreme User Guide from HERE (150 page PDF). It's a t

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Reply to Winstep Extreme Update in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="11" id="2896451"]Jorge, will the new skinning engine be in it?[/quote] Not yet, unfortunately, but the good news is that I'm activelly working on it (the 'Winstep Theme Builder' application), and using THIS new theme (not yet released) to test it. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Other good news is that the new Winstep Xtreme/Nexus Ultimate User Guides are nearly ready too (150+ pages each). The ne

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Reply to Winstep Extreme Update in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Betas announced in the Beta section of the Winstep forums are *private* betas, not public, available to registered Winstep users only who follow the procedure to access the private section of the forums. That's why you get no notification from the Winstep Update Manager even if 'Notify me of beta versions' is selected. Anyway, the official release should be available sometime this week, and it will be v11.2. There will be new versions for Nexus free, Nexus Ultimate, Winstep Xtreme and

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Reply to DeskScapes 3.25 + Logitech SetPoint 6.20.50 = failure animated desktop in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

Logitech used to make great hardware, but these days all their mice, even the high cost ones, seem to come with low end micro switches that begin to fail after roughly one year, turning left button single clicks into double clicks. Their software, on the other hand, has always sucked, and it has a nasty habit of interfering with 3rd party software. Setpoint, for instance, hooks into every process (why would a %##"@ mouse driver need to do that?!) and

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Reply to Find Out Which Programs Are Accessing The Internet On Your Computer in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="6" id="2871825"] @ Jorge: Please tell more! [/quote] Modules/Widgets in Winstep applications always try to go 'one step further' than your run-of-the-mill module/widget (the clock module is able to speak the time and sync your system clock with Internet time servers, for instance, the Email Checker module is able to work with multiple accounts and supports both the POP3 and IMAP protocols, etc...). The Winstep Net Module also gives you

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Reply to ObjectDock Background Gallery now Open for Business! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Sincerely, this is great news for ObjectDock users, but I think it would make a lot more sense for someone inside Wincustomize to manually transfer existing dock backgrounds from the old gallery into the new gallery with the help of a script. This script should also automatically preserve/transfer download numbers, user comments, author information, etc..., if possible. It would be a pain for whomever had to do this, but I bet in 2 days or less the work would be done and everybod

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Reply to StardockDreamMaker.exe is a Trojan. in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

If I got a penny each time a 'free' virus scanner flagged a false positive on a Winstep application (and another every time someone publicly screamed 'bloody murder' before making sure and scaring everyone else), I would be living on my very own private island. VirusTotal (free online virus scanner) is your friend. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

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Reply to Systray weather icons for Windows in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

You could try the free version of the Winstep Nexus dock - it allows you to show the weather icon on the system tray, you can customize the weather icons by replacing the images that ship with it (you even have two pre-defined styles), and you get a nice dock in the bargain with features no other Windows dock has. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

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Reply to WHY ? in WindowBlinds Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

This still doesn't invalidate the fact that, after more than 10 years, Stardock has no excuse for not having detailed skinning tutorials and detailed skinning documentation available. Over 10 years ago, my very first message on the Stardock WB newsgroups, complaining about the lack of a skinning tutorial, got me flamed by Brad himself, lol. At the time Brad claimed WB was still in beta (it wasn't even version 1.0 then) and that was the reason why documentation

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