Littleboy

Littleboy

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If there is no ExtractedData folder, then it seems that it checks for Aero before doing anything else. [quote]BTW the few dynamic dreams on Wincustomize mostly have flash previews, so you can work from that.[/quote] My bad, I seemed to remember them having big flash previews when in fact they don't or it shows desktop icons and such. Sorry!

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I don't know if the dreams are extracted before or after the check for Aero. Do you have any subfolders in the ExtractedData directory? For video dreams, this is as simple as getting the mpeg or wmv inside and converting them to your player format (I assume you already know how to do that). For protected dynamic dreams, I guess the activation is taking place after the check for Aero so you won't be able to run them (while I'm not doing any checks in Nightmares, the dreams them

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You first need to load a dynamic dream with deskscapes (this will extract the contents to %programdata%\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData). Then navigate to the ExtractedData directory. There should be 2 dll files (one for 32bit and another for 64bit). The one you want is the 32bit one. Open a command line prompt and navigate to the ExtractedData directory. Launch nightmares with the following arguments: Nightmares -i -o <name of the AV

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Most dreams are wmv or mpeg already. Look into %programdata%\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData. For dynamic dreams, there is this but it only works with free ones (support for commercial ones is still buggy - it will only work for some of them). Remember that most content is only licensed for private non commercial use. See here for another discussion of that.

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I've uploaded an updated build with preliminary support for protected dreams. Of the three I know of, only Liquid Dream is more or less working (settings changes require a restart). Photo Dream freezes after a while and Desktop Collage just crashes [e digicons] Note that you will need to activate the protected dreams by loading them through the default interface before being able to load them with Nightmares. XP users won't be able to make it work unless they activate o

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If you log into the Stardock support site , you can see the status of your cases. If it shows Escalated , it means that the issue has been transmitted to the developpers. You might not always get a response from support, although they try to get back with information and possible workarounds as much as possible. <span class="small

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[quote]So you won't be voting for Obama then? He claimed that the racist, anti-American church he attended for 20 years never was that way when he was there. Is that believeable? The list of dishonest statements from Obama is a mile long. Biden is best known for his plagarism.[/quote] Nope, I won't ever vote for him (takes quite a few years to get citizenship). And it's right there at the end of my message: "I know Obama, Biden and a lot of other politicians are probably much the same

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[quote]I had started a post asking what exactly is "wrong" with Palin, and there were no serious answers, just as this post has shown. They seem to hate her because she's a conversative, and nothing more.[/quote] JoeUser isn't exactly full of democrats, and moderates seems to be quite hard to find as of late. Maybe posting on a moderate or leaning democrat forum will get you more responses (one when you don't get nasty responses for not being in the line...). Here is my answer

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This isn't going to matter anyway IMO. I'm still waiting to see the focus group results, but the word from the conservative pundits (and most of the so called liberal elitist media) is going to be that she did OK or great. Which considering the super low expectations is certainly true. If the format had been the same as for the McCain/Obama debate, she would be dead right now, but with only 2 minutes real exchange and almost no followup questions, both of them were able to g

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[quote]the questioning does always come across as an "I'm out to get you" interview.[/quote] Do people really feel that way? I see nothing wrong with Couric questions, she's asking basic questions with sensible followups. See this video for example (almost the same questions for both VP candidates). Yep, the video makes her look like a fool, but not because of the questions... Why in your view is Roe v. Wade a b

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85%, with a few 'All of the above' missed (I kept answering too fast, damn) Now I only have to wait a few more years :D [quote]So I suppose a 60% would get you citizenship.[/quote] I thought the nice people at the INS were looking for something like 80% or more. It would be fun to see results from an array of native citizens (who said train wreck?).

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I was kind of disappointed with their answers on international affairs. When it came to Russia, it was like a pissing contest on who could appear tougher than the other: what was said was so dumbed down it was appalling. The US has been pushing for former soviet republics to join NATO, you bet Russia was going to strike back. And with Irak and the Balkans, good luck arguing with Russia about

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[quote]he's showing a responsibility to his CURRENT elected office by being there for the Congressional Sessions[/quote] Candidates attendance record McCain: 64.1% votes missed Obama: 45.9% votes missed Still way to much votes missed by Obama (he's third in the top-five and the second one Tim Johnson has a pretty good excuse), but this clearly shows that being in congress has not been the top priority for the can

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[quote]Since shadows are not yet implemented, I wanted to see what would happen if I tried to set the shadow properties of a DX object using the Canvas plug-in (and my script). Well, no shadow, and an immediate crash of DXBuilder.exe[/quote] I'll check to see if I can do something about that. Drawing plugins should result in most properties being disabled (and in DXCanvas case, object width and height should be disabled too), but it seems that there are some bugs here and th

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This one might be a problem with my code. Can you send me an object that exhibits this behavior (max CPU and flicker)?

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Scripting plugins are registering as COM components (in HKCU, so it works as a standard user). Avast might be blocking registry access in some way.

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Yeah, it seems to be a bug with DesktopX. The listbox will move no matter what. The only way to prevent it from moving is to lock movement on the main object, which AFAIK is not possible from script. I tried locking the object, adding a new layer and locking that layer in addition to the object, but with no luck. If I add OnMove, OnDrag, OnLButtonUp callbacks, I get called alright when dragging the object, but then if I call Object.Move it doesn't do anything. DesktopX seems to think the list

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