New KwikStrip BETA!
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New KwikStrip BETA!
After so many weeks of fixing stupid bugs I have finally finished KwikStrip 2.5! I'm pretty sure I eliminated all the bugs, but I'm releasing a 5-day public beta just in case.
I'm still working on the documentation for the skin format and a metrics editor. Those should be out in a few days as they are very simple.
Yay! Go check it out!
KwikStrip 2.5 BETA 3
KwikStrip SkinStudio 1.0 BETA 2
I'm still working on the documentation for the skin format and a metrics editor. Those should be out in a few days as they are very simple.
Yay! Go check it out!
KwikStrip 2.5 BETA 3
KwikStrip SkinStudio 1.0 BETA 2
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Crashes when no title for the progam name is entered. You really should do something about that...
My fix: if the user hasn't put in a title manually at this point, use the EXEname without the extension.
Request: Add a hotkey function to open the strip once it's in focus, and optionally be able to make that a global. When in focus, 1-0 can open the first ten or so? Just thinking out loud here. Maybe by letter instead in case soeone has a really long strip.
Request 2: Further down the road, do you think you'll be able to implement dropping an application on the arrow and it gets added to the strip? Or drag reordering of the buttons? That'd all be really sweet.
My fix: if the user hasn't put in a title manually at this point, use the EXEname without the extension.
Request: Add a hotkey function to open the strip once it's in focus, and optionally be able to make that a global. When in focus, 1-0 can open the first ten or so? Just thinking out loud here. Maybe by letter instead in case soeone has a really long strip.
Request 2: Further down the road, do you think you'll be able to implement dropping an application on the arrow and it gets added to the strip? Or drag reordering of the buttons? That'd all be really sweet.
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Fixed.DoomRater wrote:Crashes when no title for the progam name is entered.
Already done, press space.DoomRater wrote:Request: Add a hotkey function to open the strip once it's in focus
I had thought about this, I'm not sure how I would implement it without a signifigant amount of trouble.DoomRater wrote:When in focus, 1-0 can open the first ten or so? Just thinking out loud here. Maybe by letter instead in case soeone has a really long strip.
Anyway, here is beta 2 and the skin studio. Really scrutinize the skin app since I wrote it pretty quick.
KwikStrip 2.5 BETA 2
KwikStrip SkinStudio 1.0 BETA 1
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OMG DOWNLOAD$ $O FA$T! Testing now.
Edit: What TDA said... Everyone else use this till the link is updated (turns out b2 is exactly the same file as b1)
Edit: What TDA said... Everyone else use this till the link is updated (turns out b2 is exactly the same file as b1)
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OKay, probs with the beta 2 version:
-keeps resetting my y-offset (I have it positioned next to the taskbar)
Probs with the skinmaker:
-doesn't properly save data like the info text color, info length, etc. (Could this be because you have to save it as a 256 color bitmap? it'd help if you specified that)
EDIT: yep, bitmaps must be saved as 256 color if order for the tag info to work. I'd like another way to save the file, rather than tagging extra data to a bitmap. Or if you must, change the extension to something else.
-keeps resetting my y-offset (I have it positioned next to the taskbar)
Probs with the skinmaker:
-doesn't properly save data like the info text color, info length, etc. (Could this be because you have to save it as a 256 color bitmap? it'd help if you specified that)
EDIT: yep, bitmaps must be saved as 256 color if order for the tag info to work. I'd like another way to save the file, rather than tagging extra data to a bitmap. Or if you must, change the extension to something else.
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Yes, I fixed these minutes after your post, but I wanted my next post to be another release. It seems that's taking longer than I had expected. I'll just update now.DoomRater wrote:Any news?
Fixed. I can't believe I didn't think of the solution to this earlier...DoomRater wrote:-keeps resetting my y-offset (I have it positioned next to the taskbar)
Fixed.DoomRater wrote:-doesn't properly save data like the info text color, info length, etc.
Works for me. I just made a skin with a 24-bit bitmap.DoomRater wrote:you have to save it as a 256 color bitmap? it'd help if you specified that
It should use the application dir, I ran into problems with using the cwd by default so I added it in the first beta.The BugTracker wrote:When not specifying a working directory for a program, it defaults to the KwikStrip directory instead of that of the program being run.
It was kinda funky though so I rewrote it a bit.
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