[Tihiy]

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Were your production machine(s) infected?

This stuff has infected pretty much 90% of Delphi installations. I've seen it on all my production machines. They were all sanitized; this one was probably infected from some old distro. You can read more on the web.

[RodgerOver]

Hi Tihiy,

just discovered your new version. Realy, really nice (icons, ... amongst others). Had to install in "save mode", because when I installed normally, I always got the following message: ... "There is a system file update pending: please reboot" (or something like this). After two reboots (and still the same message), there was a message about WININNIT.INI (dont recall the exact message). ... So I deleted WININNIT.INI. But again: "System update file pending: please reboot"). So I went into "save mode" and RP 9.5 installed and everything seems fine now !


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO REVOLUTION PACK !

Roger

(Sorry, forgot to say: There are some new *.win files in the C:\ root directory ?)

This post has been edited by RodgerOver: 07 May 2010 - 01:19 PM

[Tihiy]

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(Sorry, forgot to say: There are some new *.win files in the C:\ root directory ?)

Nope. RP does not create new files.

[Queue]

Ok so, the desktop warning message ''The system is dangerously low in resources!'' was really cool at first, but I am seeing it all the time and getting kinda tired of it; I run with tons of things open at once, but I know my computer's limits, and it's never a problem. Is there some way to change the resource threshhold (I wouldn't mind a warning at like 5%...) or disable that warning display?

I mean, I'm at 18% GDI right now, nothing is misbehaving, and my compy isn't gonna freeze; I'll probably have an uptime of over a week unless you release a new version of RP9 which would force me to restart to update. My current uptime is 1 day 22 hours 10 min; I haven't restarted since updating to RP9.5. When you updated RPSetup and RPConfig I just extracted them and threw them in my system folder since no other files changed so I didn't need to restart.

Also, that uptime display is kinda weird; it's # d (just a single letter for days), # hours (even if it's just 1, hours is still plural) and # min. (abbreviated). Why not just # d # h # m? Or # days # hours # minutes?

Just more feedback; I'm still loving RP9.5 so far.

Queue

Edit - I'm down to 11% GDI free, and I just tested, and I can open 10 more IE6 windows before I'm out of resources and the newest IE window doesn't render right (missing buttons).

This post has been edited by Queue: 07 May 2010 - 10:14 PM

[Tihiy]

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Is there some way to change the resource threshhold

Yep i screwed this up and gdi heap treshold is too early to fire. Don't worry it'll be fixed soon.

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Why not just # d # h # m? Or # days # hours # minutes?

I've never tested days uptime . I guess d h m will be fine.

This post has been edited by Tihiy: 08 May 2010 - 12:33 AM

[Tihiy]

Revolutions Pack 9.5.5 RC
http://tihiy.ahanix.org/RP9.exe
Fixed: icon font charset wasn't forced to system one.
Changed: ctrl-alt-del strings.
Changed: low resources blackout had improper gdi threshold.
Changed: shell extensions are now installing as a part of Core.
New: transparent desktop icon labels can drop shadows like XP! (requires MMX)
New: desktop icon align to grid is permanent setting like XP.

Edit: re-uploaded 9.5.5; new 'permanent align desktop icons to grid' did not work on 98 shell.

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This post has been edited by Tihiy: 08 May 2010 - 01:38 PM

[Queue]

Love the changes with 9.5.5.

My system tray is flickering quite a bit when I'm focused on a windowed 3D application, far more than it did with RP9.1. I assume when I have focus on any CPU-hungry program my system tray will flicker (it's during its redraw; the tray blanks out and is slow enough to redraw that I can get a frame where it's blank), and it can flicker as much as twice a second.

Edit - It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

Queue

This post has been edited by Queue: 09 May 2010 - 11:30 AM

[Tihiy]

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It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

I know it's a bad excuse, but taskbar skinning was written for Me shell. 98 shell is much harder to control and requires dirty hacks. Nevertheless, it will be improved.

[Queue]

Tihiy, on 09 May 2010 - 01:21 PM, said:

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It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

I know it's a bad excuse, but taskbar skinning was written for Me shell. 98 shell is much harder to control and requires dirty hacks. Nevertheless, it will be improved.

It's no sweat, I only even mentioned it because the flickering got worse between 9.1 and 9.5. It doesn't actually bother me (yes, I'm weird; a flickering system tray doesn't bother me, yet not being able to lock my taskbar does).

Queue

[triger49]

Tihiy ..

Great ...everything works...awesome...thanks!

There was one nuisance I forgot to mention however from 9.50....blush

If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to
any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed
it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever
use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back
by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

Jake

[Tihiy]

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If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to
any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed
it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever
use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back
by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

That's too unspecific - screen blanks... Taskbar disappears? Explorer crashes? Sky falls down?

[triger49]

Tihiy, on 09 May 2010 - 02:59 PM, said:

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If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to
any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed
it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever
use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back
by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

That's too unspecific - screen blanks... Taskbar disappears? Explorer crashes? Sky falls down?

As in Blanked out....nothing...black...like you turned out the lights.
If I uploaded a screen shot you would see a black square.
I was so happy the wallpaper glitch is gone, I hesitated to even
mention it....

Jake

Ps:...just tryed it again to make sure....mouse cursor is the only thing visible...nothing crashes. but I have to use
the keyboard to get control of the system...Ctrl-esc brings
up the start menu....ctrl-alt-del works also.

This post has been edited by triger49: 09 May 2010 - 03:19 PM

[Tihiy]

Maybe you mean black desktop and "out of resources" warning in the corner?

[triger49]

Tihiy, on 09 May 2010 - 03:14 PM, said:

Maybe you mean black desktop and "out of resources" warning in the corner?

Sorry Tihiy, must be having a senior moment here
with my communication skills. it is like you have
a Black screen that is pinned as "stay-on-top"
System resources are not affected...I can see the
system resources when I hit ctrl-alt-del. I can see
the start menu when I push ctrl-esc.....A reboot puts
everything back in order

Jake

[triger49]

Hi;

Just for the sake of leaving a clearly marked
trail here.All the problems I was encountering
with RP9.5.x where the result of one bit mapped
image that I am pretty sure I found over at
Wikipedia Commons....

If someone had told me that one Bmp wallpaper could
cause that much trouble, I would not have believed
it possible.

Jake

[Tihiy]

Revolutions Pack 9.5.6 RC
http://tihiy.ahanix.org/RP9.exe

Fixed: tray flickers on 98 shell without skinning.
Fixed: several shell places weren't getting 32-bit icons.
Fixed: Miranda IM icon problems.

This is the last RC intended.

This post has been edited by Tihiy: 10 May 2010 - 11:20 AM

[Dandee]

Hi,

I wish RP a Happy birthday too! I hope this project will
be continued for many years to come.

Has anybody tested it with WINE on a linux box?

Also, can somebody explain what this "Resource Salvation" is about?
I'm just interested, because I was not aware that Win98 had
a resources problem. I'm a software developer, so you can get
technical.

I also have some little anomalies to report. I'll post them
right away.

Dandee

[Dandee]

Hi,

* Missing text lable + vertical line during Drag & Drop on IE5 machine.
* Garbled text lable + vertical line while dragging in IE6 + Cleartype
(ok without cleartype)
* Scrollbar thumb not following while scrolling with thumb
in Rich Edit controls (WordPad)
* Outer window border leaves white area (left-top, right-top) in
Win7 theme (other themes are ok)
* Icons are cut off in icon view

Dandee

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[Tihiy]

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* Missing text lable + vertical line during Drag & Drop on IE5 machine.

IE6 is required for good (for anything other than Core install).

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* Garbled text lable + vertical line while dragging in IE6 + Cleartype

Known, low priority.

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* Scrollbar thumb not following while scrolling with thumb
in Rich Edit controls (WordPad)

Not following at all or lagging?

Not really worth noting.

This post has been edited by Tihiy: 11 May 2010 - 04:37 AM

[M()zart]

Tried 9.5 om my Win98 PC, everything worked great (except for already mentioned too early resource warning), thanks.