Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 16:32:35 -0300 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Styler/2 1.7 available from hobbes From: os2 The English version of Styler/2 (705 KB) is available for download from: hobbes - incoming directory. It will be later moved to the /pub/os2/util/wps directory. Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smw170.zip Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=smw170 Styler/2 web site: http://space.tin.it/scienza/acantato Styler/2 is a program which enhances both the aesthetics and the functionality of OS/2 Warp 3, eCS and MCP. Features and bug fixes: * Styler/2 has been completely rewritten. * Now Styler/2 works correctly with Connectix Virtual PC and hopefully with other applications based on the Odin libraries. Currently the Window rolling and Titlebar hiding features have been disabled for windows relying on those libraries. * Most limitations regarding bitmap formats have been removed. Now any kind of OS/2 bitmap is valid provided that its size does not exceed 64 KBs. * Thanks to an undocumented OS/2 API, now Styler/2 shares the same bitmap resources among all the system processes. This provides a small increment in speed (when starting a new process) and a large decrease in resource usage (when a lot of processes are running). * Titlebar gradients use much less memory and are displayed much faster as they are converted to shared bitmaps and then stretched as needed. * The titlebar sample in the preferences notebook correctly shows centered text when the Center option is selected. * When a mouse button is pressed on the window border now the window correctly receive the focus. * Some new bitmaps for the titlebars and the window controls have been added. Known problems * The installer of version 1.7 cannot correctly reinstall Styler/2 over version 1.7 itself (it works correctly when installing over previous versions). Future releases * Version 1.7.x (or version 1.8) with a fixed installer, a real help file and a few experimental new features will be released as soon as possible. * Nationalized versions (German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Italian) will be released together with that new version -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Efrem Stringer OS/2 Warp 4.52 MCP2 "It's ok, say it with me. I Hate Microsoft!" www.ihatemicrosoft.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California, October 18-19 - http://www.warpstock.org [Moderator's note: Because of the incredible increase in SPAM lately I will now endeavor to add DESPAM to email addresses in all posts to the News list. Yes I know that the ReplyTo and From addresses are not modified. This action is to protect email addresses that will appear in HTML pages. If you wish to send a response to someone listed in the post be sure to remove the "DESPAM" from any email address in the body of the post.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org