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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

YESSSSS! Finally! I am installing this on both computers post-haste!

ACK!!! It crashes whenever I add something to the list of stuff. This is on WinXP SP2 on an Admin account. It appears to crash in ntdll.dll.

Hmm, works for me.
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Well, I've got beta 2 and the skin studio ready to go. I'm just waiting for TDA to contact me about that bug he is experiencing.

If I'm not contacted by this time tomorrow, I'm going to release beta 2 and the skin studio anyway.

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.

DoomRater wrote:Crashes when no title for the progam name is entered.

Fixed.

DoomRater wrote:Request: Add a hotkey function to open the strip once it's in focus

Already done, press space.

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.

I had thought about this, I'm not sure how I would implement it without a signifigant amount of trouble.

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

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)

Bio: You've linked to beta 1. BTW, it works on my lappy.

EDIT: and what's the password for the zip? I can't beta test without the beta

Oh, link updated.

Zip password?

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.

Bio: It's the windows file manager being stupid. It got horribly confused since I forgot to close KwikStrip before updating.

I can confirm Doomrater's bug with the Y-offset resetting. It always reverts back to zero whenever the Config dialog is opened (though it goes back to whatever it was if you cancel).

Any news?

DoomRater wrote:Any news?

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:-keeps resetting my y-offset (I have it positioned next to the taskbar)

Fixed. I can't believe I didn't think of the solution to this earlier...

DoomRater wrote:-doesn't properly save data like the info text color, info length, etc.

Fixed.

DoomRater wrote:you have to save it as a 256 color bitmap? it'd help if you specified that

Works for me. I just made a skin with a 24-bit bitmap.

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 should use the application dir, I ran into problems with using the cwd by default so I added it in the first beta.
It was kinda funky though so I rewrote it a bit.