Revolutions Pack 9.7

[Tihiy]

Were your production machine(s) infected?

This stuff has infected pretty much 90% of Delphi installations. I've seen it on all my production machines. They were all sanitized; this one was probably infected from some old distro. You can read more on the web.

[RodgerOver]

Hi Tihiy,

just discovered your new version. Realy, really nice (icons, ... amongst others). Had to install in "save mode", because when I installed normally, I always got the following message: ... "There is a system file update pending: please reboot" (or something like this). After two reboots (and still the same message), there was a message about WININNIT.INI (dont recall the exact message). ... So I deleted WININNIT.INI. But again: "System update file pending: please reboot"). So I went into "save mode" and RP 9.5 installed and everything seems fine now !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO REVOLUTION PACK !

Roger

(Sorry, forgot to say: There are some new *.win files in the C:\ root directory ?)

Edited May 7, 2010 by RodgerOver

[Tihiy]

(Sorry, forgot to say: There are some new *.win files in the C:\ root directory ?)

Nope. RP does not create new files.

[Queue]

Ok so, the desktop warning message ''The system is dangerously low in resources!'' was really cool at first, but I am seeing it all the time and getting kinda tired of it; I run with tons of things open at once, but I know my computer's limits, and it's never a problem. Is there some way to change the resource threshhold (I wouldn't mind a warning at like 5%...) or disable that warning display?

I mean, I'm at 18% GDI right now, nothing is misbehaving, and my compy isn't gonna freeze; I'll probably have an uptime of over a week unless you release a new version of RP9 which would force me to restart to update. My current uptime is 1 day 22 hours 10 min; I haven't restarted since updating to RP9.5. When you updated RPSetup and RPConfig I just extracted them and threw them in my system folder since no other files changed so I didn't need to restart.

Also, that uptime display is kinda weird; it's # d (just a single letter for days), # hours (even if it's just 1, hours is still plural) and # min. (abbreviated). Why not just # d # h # m? Or # days # hours # minutes?

Just more feedback; I'm still loving RP9.5 so far.

Queue

Edit - I'm down to 11% GDI free, and I just tested, and I can open 10 more IE6 windows before I'm out of resources and the newest IE window doesn't render right (missing buttons).

Edited May 8, 2010 by Queue

[Tihiy]

Is there some way to change the resource threshhold

Yep i screwed this up and gdi heap treshold is too early to fire. Don't worry it'll be fixed soon.

Why not just # d # h # m? Or # days # hours # minutes?

I've never tested days uptime . I guess d h m will be fine. Edited May 8, 2010 by Tihiy

[Tihiy]

Revolutions Pack 9.5.5 RC

http://tihiy.ahanix.org/RP9.exe

Fixed: icon font charset wasn't forced to system one.

Changed: ctrl-alt-del strings.

Changed: low resources blackout had improper gdi threshold.

Changed: shell extensions are now installing as a part of Core.

New: transparent desktop icon labels can drop shadows like XP! (requires MMX)

New: desktop icon align to grid is permanent setting like XP.

Edit: re-uploaded 9.5.5; new 'permanent align desktop icons to grid' did not work on 98 shell.

Edited May 8, 2010 by Tihiy

[Queue]

Love the changes with 9.5.5.

My system tray is flickering quite a bit when I'm focused on a windowed 3D application, far more than it did with RP9.1. I assume when I have focus on any CPU-hungry program my system tray will flicker (it's during its redraw; the tray blanks out and is slow enough to redraw that I can get a frame where it's blank), and it can flicker as much as twice a second.

Edit - It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

Queue

Edited May 9, 2010 by Queue

[Tihiy]

It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

I know it's a bad excuse, but taskbar skinning was written for Me shell. 98 shell is much harder to control and requires dirty hacks. Nevertheless, it will be improved.

[Queue]

It's when the icon graphic for a system tray icon changes; the whole tray redraws.

I know it's a bad excuse, but taskbar skinning was written for Me shell. 98 shell is much harder to control and requires dirty hacks. Nevertheless, it will be improved.

It's no sweat, I only even mentioned it because the flickering got worse between 9.1 and 9.5. It doesn't actually bother me (yes, I'm weird; a flickering system tray doesn't bother me, yet not being able to lock my taskbar does).

Queue

[triger49]

Tihiy ..

Great ...everything works...awesome...thanks!

There was one nuisance I forgot to mention however from 9.50....blush

If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to

any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed

it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever

use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back

by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

Jake

[Tihiy]

If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to

any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed

it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever

use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back

by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

That's too unspecific - screen blanks... Taskbar disappears? Explorer crashes? Sky falls down?

[triger49]

If I select a windows 7 skin(either one)...then go back to

any other ....the screen blanks...I had mentally dismissed

it because I decided I like the Vista black and doubt I'll ever

use the Windows 7 blue. But anyway, I can usually bring it back

by Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still happens with Ver 9.55

That's too unspecific - screen blanks... Taskbar disappears? Explorer crashes? Sky falls down?

As in Blanked out....nothing...black...like you turned out the lights.

If I uploaded a screen shot you would see a black square.

I was so happy the wallpaper glitch is gone, I hesitated to even

mention it....

Jake

Ps:...just tryed it again to make sure....mouse cursor is the only thing visible...nothing crashes. but I have to use

the keyboard to get control of the system...Ctrl-esc brings

up the start menu....ctrl-alt-del works also.

Edited May 9, 2010 by triger49

[Tihiy]

Maybe you mean black desktop and "out of resources" warning in the corner?

[triger49]

Maybe you mean black desktop and "out of resources" warning in the corner?

Sorry Tihiy, must be having a senior moment here

with my communication skills. it is like you have

a Black screen that is pinned as "stay-on-top"

System resources are not affected...I can see the

system resources when I hit ctrl-alt-del. I can see

the start menu when I push ctrl-esc.....A reboot puts

everything back in order

Jake

[triger49]

Hi;

Just for the sake of leaving a clearly marked

trail here.All the problems I was encountering

with RP9.5.x where the result of one bit mapped

image that I am pretty sure I found over at

Wikipedia Commons....

If someone had told me that one Bmp wallpaper could

cause that much trouble, I would not have believed

it possible.

Jake