[trevor89]

I have a suggestion for RP, "hide unused tray icons".
There is a shell extension that does this called effective desktop but it is not open source and also isnt a true shell extension as it needsthe program to run...

This could be made in the style of xp/... whereby it displayes the balloon if it does it automaticly (though users can dissable such notifications in the RP config panel if wanted)

Also, DeviceConnect/DeviceDisconnect, is there a way to get this with USB devices?

In XP you hear the [Dong-Ding] when inserting a usb stick and a [Ding-Dong] when extracting it.

In 98/me however you only hear (also its internal sound, i.e. cant be changed in the sounds.cpl) this with PCMCIA cards.


Ctrl-Alt-Del, Im sure maybe this has been requested before but maybe have the normal Programs end task (like current) but have a tab for All Processes/dll's (more XP/Vista dialog like)


Now for a question, why does a skinned taskbar have thick 'handles' All-round it when its not locked compared to no handles on an unskinned taskbar (Ive looked and nothing changes when clicking lock and unlock. The only change is the addition of the small verticle bars between sections like quick launch and task's)

Trev

[Forte]

Dandee, on 26 January 2011 - 07:47 AM, said:

Hi Tihiy, hi group,

I solved the mask-problem. The masks in the 32-bit icons where
inversed. Download my new version of the Mac OSX icons at:

http://www.baut.nl/d...s/RP9-Icons.zip (11 MB)

It's not completely finished yet. Update will follow soon...

By the way, I was hoping somebody could make us a matching skin.
@Svenne: do you have time/interest? I have a BMP screen shot file to
start with (I have no Mac ):

 tiger98.png (107.39K)
Number of downloads: 100

Here's a screenshot of the skin im working on.

This post has been edited by Forte: 05 March 2011 - 11:48 PM

[Dandee]

Forte, on 05 March 2011 - 11:16 PM, said:

Here's a screenshot of the skin im working on.

Ahhh, me likes! Keep up the good work.

[Forte]

Tiger Blue for rp9. Enjoy

Attached File(s)

•  Tiger Blue.zip (146.17K)
  Number of downloads: 37

This post has been edited by Forte: 12 March 2011 - 04:52 PM

[Dandee]

Forte, on 07 March 2011 - 08:20 PM, said:

Tiger Blue for rp9. Enjoy

I'm sorry to have to say this, but it looks terrible! I am *not* enjoying it.
The system buttons (top of window) are not vertically centered.
The Push buttons should be round rectangles, not oval.
The scroll bars are cut off on all sides.
Selected text is obscured by the selection color (Explorer adress bar)

I know it is a lot of work (ask Tihiy), but it does not have to be finished
all at once, so don't add half-baked elements, only those which are really finished.

[vicokoby]

I was using RP in my Windows 98SE in Spanish language, when I apply the sets of icons some icons do not change, for example My computer, My documents, and I believe that some others, is this for that the language of my Windows 98SE is the Spanish?, In any case I want to help you to translate the program, and if it is possible to correct the problems that I you mention.

Regards,

[Dandee]

vicokoby, on 17 March 2011 - 01:16 PM, said:

when I apply the sets of icons some icons do not change

Can you show us a screen shot of your explorer?
Anyway, take a look at the following key, using regedit.exe:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

There should be entries like "{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}".
If they have "DefaultIcon" subkeys, these should be removed, because
they override the system defaults.
Delete the "DefaultIcon" subkeys only! Otherwise your Desktop will be empty.

This post has been edited by Dandee: 20 March 2011 - 01:16 PM

[animalid]

I just installed version 9.7.2 (for first time) and have a strange problem.
I use Sherpya mplayer SVN-r32735-4.2.5 for playback and since i instaled RP,
mplayer keeps creating USERPROFILE_FONTCONFIG_CACHE in current directory.
I did have this problem with Kovensky mplayer, but no problem with Sherpya builds till i istalled RP.
Uninstalling RP didn't help.

I use 98SE with KernelEx 4.5 RC1.

...............

Found a workaround:

there is a file fonts.conf in mplayer/fonts/ directory.
if you look inside it, you'll find USERPROFILE_FONTCONFIG_CACHE - just have to replace it with
any folder you wish to store font cache in f.e. ~/.fontconfig or c:\windows\temp

But i still have no idea what installation of RP changed in my settings that mplayer started to create USERPROFILE_FONTCONFIG_CACHE in every dir i played files with it.

This post has been edited by animalid: 31 March 2011 - 03:10 AM

[Mathwiz]

Just though I'd let you know that RP 9.7 works much better with a vertical taskbar (dragged to the left or right vs. the usual bottom or top) than 9.6. The latter left a couple of narrow gaps on either side that tended to accumulate random crud when the taskbar was locked. 9.7 fixed this.

Most themes don't look good with a vertical taskbar, but a few do. BlackMesa is my favorite.

Edit: I may have spoken too soon. I rebooted (to install KernelEx 4.5 final) and the narrow gaps came back. They seem to be invisible/transparent borders for the taskbar (even though it's locked). But as soon as I resized the taskbar by dragging one of the invisible borders, they both went away.

OK, not perfect, but I can live with it.

This post has been edited by Mathwiz: 01 April 2011 - 08:46 PM

[Foxbat]

I accidentally discovered an unintended "feature"/glitch. What does it do? It makes the start menu transparent. Some of you may have also encountered this as you use RP9.

How to reproduce this:
1. You need to have "use fade effects" selected under "menu animations" in RPConfig.
2. Right click anywhere on the desktop.
3. Left click on the start menu. It may take several tries before it happens. Now your start menu is transparent (temporarily until you move your mouse over it).

Doing this multiple times will yield varying degrees of opacity. Apparently, RP9 does not complete the fade in animation and stopped midway. This isn't true transparency but it's close enough. Currently, this is not very practical as it is hard to read with the icons in the background. But it would be interesting if this glitch can be harnessed as a possible feature for a future version of RP.

[M()zart]

Honestly, I think this is a glitch and it is annoying.

[Foxbat]

The glitch in its current form is not really usable. It would need some additional work, and blurring of the underlying background, that is if this feature/glitch will even be considered at all.

I noticed that this can also be done by right clicking on the title bar of a window (either restored or maximized state) and then left clicking the start button, but this takes more tries before it happens.

[dencorso]

Tihiy, on 12 December 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

dencorso said:

Tihiy, would you please consider looking into LDT garbage collecting, or some form of LDT salvation, please?
I've been looking into things like this too often for confort, of late:

Well red circles are frustrating but that's how it is.
Windows has LDT cleanup (not really effective though) which is triggered when system is out of segments starting a program. RP calls that cleanup when LDT is lower than 20%.

Yesterday, it dawned on me I might be using too big values for USERMaxHeapSize and GDIMaxHeapSize. So I set both to 4096 and the red is gone. Yay!

[Drugwash]

Back after a two year leave from the Internet. Looking at my desktop, the 32bit icons show a black alpha channel. Can't recall anyone having reported this for the reason I suspect (in my case): long time ago I changed shell icon size from 32px to 24px and most likely the GDI function(s) that resize the 32bit icons don't play nice with the alpha channel.
Now, I don't care much about this issue since I'm mostly working in maximized state with whatever application needed so the desktop is way behind all the time, but just for the sake of it: can it be worked around by using oher GDI functions (or GDIplus if not too cumbersome)?

System specs (if needed): P III 667MHz, 512 MB SDRAM, video nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 AGP8x (running in 2x mode due to chipset limitation), video driver 45.32 (latest available from manufacturer MSI, since recent ones disable AGP texture acceleration in DirectX).
OS: 98SE heavily upgraded, RP 9.7.2, KernelEx 4.5.1 installed minutes ago (former version 4.5 RC5).

Glad to be back here among friends, but sad to be forced to use XP for Internet due to lack of drivers for the GPRS modem. *sigh*

[dencorso]

GPRS modems are a PITA!
Welcome back, Drugwash!
You've been missed!

[Drugwash]

@ Tihiy:
Apologies if I've raised this issue before; can't remember and search doesn't help.
One of my applications, designed to load and display VersionInfo and icons stored in exe, dll, ocx and other similar files, crashes the current thread when enumerating the dlls in the System folder. Particularly, it crashes on uberskin.dll and comctlv8.dll.
Fortunately, it's a separate thread so the application continues enumerating the rest of the files, but the crashes are somewhat disturbing, more so for a user unfamiliar with the application, who might think of it as being buggy.
Of all the libraries in the System folder, only those two exhibit that behavior, therefore I consider this as being the fault of RP.

The application is using LoadLibrary() with the flag LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE.
Same thing happens in Total Commander while launching the Lister on the files with the FileInfo plug-in installed, which essentially does the same thing (amongst others).

The application is called VersionInfo Lister and can be found on my AHK homepage (see sig below). Both executable and source code are available for download.

If that would be too hard or impossible to fix, at least I'd like to know it so I could add a warning/disclaimer for the user, in my application. Thank you.

[NothingMuchHereToSay]

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to figure out how exactly skins work, because I'd like to try and make a RP for Windows 95. Granted, I have no skills as a programmer, but a project like that would be a start and with what I've read I have some, very little, knowledge on code.

[TmEE]

I have found a workaround to the problem with Miranda IM not showing icons with RP which is using a different set of icons for Miranda.

The ones I chose to use are available in here : http://addons.mirand...viewfile&id=755

Installation was not so straightforward but it fixes the missing icons problem very nicely

[M()zart]

NothingMuchHereToSay, on 28 September 2011 - 11:37 AM, said:

I was wondering if there was a way to figure out how exactly skins work, because I'd like to try and make a RP for Windows 95.

I recall that some versions of UberSkin (part of the RP that was developed first separately) worked on Windows 95 with IE 5.5 installed. At least somebody posted a screenshot on this forum.

[NothingMuchHereToSay]

So... how exactly does a skin work? Does it have to deal with the System.ini file since it has to load the proper icons and images or is it the shell32.dll library?