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Cool! Do that include the front page feed (http://rss.wincustomize.net/wincustnews.xml) as well? Because it's been "broken" for a long time for me, showing "nbsp;" and "br/" and every post having "bwardell at stardock.com" as an author. BTW, the feed icon on the front page still links to the old feed (might be updated the next time the cache is refreshed?)

Reply to It's Getting Quite Slippery Out There in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Thanks a lot. A lot of my christian friends are taking the Bible more as an human creation inspired by God (and thus not to be taken literally) and for them those passages are not to be taken seriously today (more like historical tidbits). They generally keep the NT, and kind of disregard the OT. I'm simplifying a great deal here, but you get the point. It's always interesting to discuss with people that see things differently. I still disagree with a lot of what you say,

Reply to It's Getting Quite Slippery Out There in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]I never said I was ok with not doing what the scriptures say. You're putting words in my mouth all over the place here. [/quote] Sorry, that really wasn't my intention. I think I better understand where you're coming from now. I'm still interested in knowing how you deal with it in practice though. Take my quote of Exodus 35-2 for example. How exactly do you explain that part (killing people is not something you try to comply to, right?) and what would be an objective r

Reply to It's Getting Quite Slippery Out There in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]No, they should have went to another photographer, told their friends about the first photographers and acted like adults...[/quote] Wanting to be treated fairly is not acting like children. You make it sound like it's easy to find another photographer. If they can't find a photographer because every one decides to discriminate against gay/black/woman/jewish (and the past has showed us that's it's not hypothetical) then I think the government has the right to get involved.

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[quote]Somethings I may not understand or want to comply with but I do respect the whole counsel of God[/quote] So, there are parts you don't want to comply with? Why exactly and what's preventing you from doing so (convenience, the law...)? I'm not being sacarstic here, I honestly want to know. Note that by "pick and choose", I also meant you're taking some parts litterally and some you choose interpret. You're telling us God says homosexuality is an abominatio

Reply to It's Getting Quite Slippery Out There in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Well, if this part of the Bible is not subject to interpreation (and not a result of people perceptions and thoughts at that time), then surely neither are every other teachings in it. Do you respect everything the Bible says (I doubt it, that just isn't possible these days), or do you choose the parts that you feel good about? One day you might find yourself at the other end of the stick, with people calling your way of living an abomination, telling you that you're a bad christian a

Reply to Oops, broke Sound Packager, again. in Object Desktop JoeUser Forums

It might be the same bug I found last week. Go to %AppData%\Stardock\SoundPackager\ and try to remove (or move to another location) the "Temp Packages" folder. Then restart SoundPackager. It will take some time to rebuild its cache. If that doesn't work, you might try to remove the whole contents of the %AppData%\Stardock\SoundPackager\ folder (make a backup first!). SoundPackager will crash the first time you start it again (already reported too). Simply start it a secon

Reply to The week of Stardock bugs in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Thank you for pointing that out. [quote]WideString length restricted to 255 characters[/quote] The Create new skin window says "max 20 chars" and it sure isn't checking for either value. I guess it's another small issue: it should probably say max 255 chars in that window. I haven't included all the info & repro steps, otherwise the post would have been way too long, but most of the SkinStudio bugs happen without modifying config files directly. That said, som

Reply to The week of Stardock bugs in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

In some cases, it seems to depend of the install location. Windows path handling has strange limits due to backward compatibility. IIRC you have to take into account the filename itself, the full path and the combination of the two. In most cases, it will crash with names over 260 chars long.

The week of Stardock bugs in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

I had a bit of free time last week, so I tried to make good use of it and try to break Stardock programs. All the problems found have been reported to support, but I'm posting them here so people having similar problems can reference this thread and help limit duplicates. I've tried to check the forums prior to reporting some of those issues, but some duplicates might have slept through. I honestly thought I would find a lot more crashes :) The first few ones were easy enough (and se

Reply to Skinning the Desktop - Dynamic Dreams in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Bah, too slow... ;)

Reply to Skinning the Desktop - Dynamic Dreams in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I talked to milksama about it before submitting my first dynamic dream. I had a few dynamic dreams that were ports of XboxMediaCenter screensavers. Those were licensed under the GPL, which means you have to distribute the source code along the binaries. I thought it was better to ask before releasing that source code. Milksama talked to Island Dog about it and he said that releasing dynamic dreams was OK, but that source code was not. Loss of revenue can be an explanation, but

Reply to Dreammaker DLL in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Unfortunately, I kind of "promised" not to share any source code until the official SDK is released. So it would not be fair to release the info I have. Plus you don't want to piss off Brad these days :D If you want the official word on that matter, ask Island Dog or Brad.

Reply to Docklets in .NET / C#? in Docks WinCustomize Forums

My bad, it was some leftover test code that I forgot to comment! I've updated the download with a new version. Remove the previous version before unzipping this one. Additionally, there is a "CleanupRegistration.reg" registry file in the package that you might want to merge, as I renamed the NetDockletHelper dll. The marshalling code is not that big, maybe 100-200 lines in managed code, a little bit more in native code. The .Net runtime is doing most of the job for us, the only

Reply to Docklets in .NET / C#? in Docks WinCustomize Forums

It's probably a bug and since there is no logging and no check for the installed .Net Framework version, it's hard to know why it's not working. A couple of things to check: - it needs to be in "Docklets/DotNetDocklets" as the path is hardcoded - make sure you have the latest version of the .Net Framework 2.0 (SP1) I'm in the process of cleaning the code a bit (removing the really idiotic parts so as not to look too bad :p) and I'll make it available [link="http://cod

Reply to WindowBlinds 6.1 beta thread in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

There is a file named backgrounds.uis in the parent folder with the list of textures.

Reply to Docklets in .NET / C#? in Docks WinCustomize Forums

Ah well, time to update it I guess The part that really needs some love is C++ side. There is a lot of crappy code there that I need to rewrite. The C# part is just an interface and some helper functions, so it can be kept mostly unchanged. Update: Stupid RegistrationServices.RegisterAssembly wants to write to HKCR instead of HKCU//Software//Classes. I redirected it using RegOverridePredefKey but there may be a less convoluted way to do it. Here is a [link="http://www.

Reply to February Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Thank you! ;) And congratulations to the other promoted.

Reply to Valentine Day Dynamic Dream in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

You can turn the blurring off in the configuration window. I'm going to change the options to have it disabled by default. If you run at lower performance settings, everything is already kind of blurry anyway :) I like to have my background slightly out of focus, but I agree it's a bit too much presently. Oh, and good to hear it's finally working :)

Reply to Valentine Day Dynamic Dream in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

There is definitely something wrong with it. I've added a log file (found in "%ProgramData%\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData\" in the folder named "Valentine {...}") and modified a few things. You can find this version [link="http://www.templier.info/downloads/ValentineDream.zip"]here[/link]. Can you try the new one to see if it's better? Zubaz & WOM: the registry change is only to fix things if it crashes. It simply tells Deskscapes to stop loading the dream

Reply to Valentine Day Dynamic Dream in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

The zip file has been updated with the latest version. It should show up on Wincustomize in a few days. Changes: - New "Heart" particle texture - Fixed configuration window (no more reloading of the Dream on configuration change) - Fixed reloading of textures - Fixed behavior on higher quality settings

Reply to Submit your languages translation for CursorFX! in CursorFX WinCustomize Forums

La version française est disponible [link="http://www.templier.info/downloads/CursorFX_-_French_(1036).zip"]ici[/link] en attendant d'être intégrée dans la prochaine version. (and submitted to support)

Reply to Call for Valentines Day Skins! in Community WinCustomize Forums

Working on a [link="https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=174456"]dynamic dream[/link].

Reply to Valentine Day Dynamic Dream in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Yes. While I may do some "Master" dreams in the future, this one as well as the [link="http://www.templier.info/2008/01/22/dynamic-dreams-in-construction/"]ports of XboxMediaCenter screensavers[/link] will be free.

Reply to Valentine Day Dynamic Dream in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Thanks! I plan to release a few test builds before uploading the final version to WinCustomize. As I wrote before, the first test build will just be the dlls and resources and a small utility called TestDream that loads the Dream in a window. That way, no need to worry about crashes :)