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oliv · Post by **oliv** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:04 pm

How can I make a shell like Litestep, is it possible ?
thanks

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:44 pm

oliv wrote:How can I make a shell like Litestep, is it possible ?
thanks

First: What is Litestep
Second: When you think, that i complete explain, who to write this: Why you don't ask, how can write a litestep for me?

Try it out and when you have a specific problem, come here again and ask clearlier.

oliv · Post by **oliv** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:53 pm

sorry

aszid · Post by **aszid** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:03 pm

i am actually familiar with litestep. it's a replacement shell for windows that takes the place of explorer (takes over the job of the startmenu, essentially)

i think that if you created a program that would let you run other programs, then all you would have to do is update the windows configuration to set your shell as the name of the exe you created. there's probably a lot more to it that just that... but that's as much as i know off the top of my head.

Proteus · Post by **Proteus** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:23 pm

I actually tried to write a shell for Win98 once. It works, but It's not the most easy thing to do. Knowledge of the Windows API is very, VERY useful.

Max. · Post by **Max.** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:07 pm

GPI wrote:
oliv wrote:How can I make a shell like Litestep, is it possible ?
thanks
First: What is Litestep
Second: When you think, that i complete explain, who to write this: Why you don't ask, how can write a litestep for me?

Try it out and when you have a specific problem, come here again and ask clearlier.

Relax. :roll:

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:39 pm

Yeah, you'd be writing a replacement for explorer - not a small task by any means!

Proteus · Post by **Proteus** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:50 pm

Oh, it can be a small task... You'd have to use a console though.

Anything that kinda looks and feels like the "normal" Windows shell WILL be a lot of work.

Doobrey · Post by **Doobrey** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:09 am

Proteus wrote:Anything that kinda looks and feels like the "normal" Windows shell WILL be a lot of work.

Nah, it`s damn easy to write code that crashes the computer at random intervals

aszid · Post by **aszid** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:14 am

Doobrey wrote:
Proteus wrote:Anything that kinda looks and feels like the "normal" Windows shell WILL be a lot of work.
Nah, it`s damn easy to write code that crashes the computer at random intervals

yeah, but it would have to LOOK nice in the process!

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:54 pm

Max. wrote:
GPI wrote:
oliv wrote:How can I make a shell like Litestep, is it possible ?
thanks
First: What is Litestep
Second: When you think, that i complete explain, who to write this: Why you don't ask, how can write a litestep for me?

Try it out and when you have a specific problem, come here again and ask clearlier.

Relax. :roll:

My english isn't good... I want to say, that he should think first a little bit about the problem. It sounds at the moment like so: "Hey i want to write a word. How can i do this?". It sounds as he never thougt about the problem to program a word. We had asked, how to make a automatic wordwarp, it would be a complete diffrent task.

oliv · Post by **oliv** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:12 pm

My english is bad to.
I don't want code, but documentation.

Proteus · Post by **Proteus** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:33 pm

aszid wrote:
Doobrey wrote:
Proteus wrote:Anything that kinda looks and feels like the "normal" Windows shell WILL be a lot of work.
Nah, it`s damn easy to write code that crashes the computer at random intervals
yeah, but it would have to LOOK nice in the process!

Don't forget usability! The random "Crash computer" feature alone won't sell.

oliv wrote:I don't want code, but documentation.

Who needs documentation? Just mess around until something works, and then ask yourself why it works. You'll learn a lot more that way.

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