[pcm]

OXTIE, If you sign up for the beta, you'll be able to download the latest version that checks if the internet is active.

[mep]

Bug description: D-Weather location is not being retained
Items involved: AveScripter D-Weather Desklet

Windows Version: WinXP Pro w/SP2
DirectX version: 9.0c
System specs: Intel P4 3GHz 2GB of RAM
Graphics card & drivers version: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Desklets running: AveScripter (D-Weather); AveScipter (Calendar); iTunesDesklet; 4 PidlShortcuts (Recycle Bin, DVD-RW Drive, Folder, Network Storage)

Steps to reproduce: Set zip code (City,State) .... When computer is restarted after being shutdown, the location information is missing and needs to be re-entered
Special notes: This behaviour does not happen with the AveScripter supplied weather desklet.

[pcm]

Ya... its fixed in the current beta version availabled if you register for beta access at avedesk.philc.ca

[AndreasV]

Bug description: Changing a side's dimensions offplaces controls
Items involved: AveScripter Engine

Windows Version:-
DirectX version: -
System specs: -
Graphics card & drivers version:-
Desklets running: -

Steps to reproduce: Do

  this.sides(0).width = 100;

  this.sides(0).height = 100;

And notice only controls gets offplaced and scaled, not the layers. (Which makes sense somewhat). I can fix it by replacing and resizing the controls, but it flickers.

[pcm]

hmmmm... I'll have to look into that with you... since I'm calling the code DeskletMove to do this

[dpsleep]

i dont know if this was the old version and forgive me for not giving an example but i think u will know what im talking about. on the itunes desklet when u press the "pause button" it really stops it and all i did to change it was change stop to play. not really a bug, but annoying. again, i dont even know if this has already been fixed, just a little to lazy to read all the bug reports.

[Oxtie]

AndreasV said:

This is actually system-behaviour, not AveDesk behaviour, so the desklet should just call the system wide function instead of round-tripping thru avedesk again.

#include <wininet.h>
#pragma comment(lib,"wininet.lib")
 
bool IsConnectedToInternet()
{
// post: true has been returned if there is an internetconnection, otherwise false has been returned
DWORD dwConnectionType = INTERNET_CONNECTION_MODEM | INTERNET_CONNECTION_LAN | INTERNET_CONNECTION_PROXY;
return InternetGetConnectedState(&dwConnectionType,0)==TRUE;
}

Oh... I was outta town (now back). All desklets uses AveDesk to call system... the idea is to block such system call (which eventually leads to pop-ups). It may be possible that PCM may fix this by your code, but there are other developers who will have to put this code of yours in all desklets they made. Some of them don't update their desklets as they have busy life while others may not know this code (new future desklet makers) and besides, I don't like the idea that all desklet developers should add this same code. Think about it, Its always better to update AveDesk with this function once rather then desklets developers updating and fixing all their desklets one by one. AveDesk controlling this desklet behaviour is not a bad idea from my perspective.

Anyhow, You can ofcourse ignore poor me I mean your stuff is way too kewl in any ways (won't really affect your current image ) Its just that I may have to report this bug to so many new developers

I remember the first time I reported this same bug to you AndreasVJ... It was like your Mail-Check desklet for Y Z Dock and you fixed and PM'ed me may be year or two back "Lovely Work"

pcm said:

OXTIE, If you sign up for the beta, you'll be able to download the latest version that checks if the internet is active.

Sign-Up? where'z the link you know I would love to Grab me a pm (just in case... you never know.... I may lurk around somewhere else instead)


ok found the beta section on this forum I was going like Search --> "Beta Section" then, Root DIR of this forum looking one by one logically for "Beta Section" (yeah I'm stupid sometimes).


hmmm... can't find beta section on that avedesk site forum... under downloads I see one fix (not sure if this is the one)

[pcm]

dpsleep said:

i dont know if this was the old version and forgive me for not giving an example but i think u will know what im talking about. on the itunes desklet when u press the "pause button" it really stops it and all i did to change it was change stop to play. not really a bug, but annoying. again, i dont even know if this has already been fixed, just a little to lazy to read all the bug reports.

The last ITunes / Scripter pacakage I fixed the Pause.

Oxtie, I'll PM for beta.

[pcm]

Can you confirm if the problem happens while you have AveScripter or is it when you have any desklet?

If its with any desklet then this would be an Avedesk bug.

[RIMMER]

Fnj560 said:

when i inititate showcase-ave desk quits is really annoying
and when i try to save my theme it fails t odo so-and with 1.3 i have noticed that for some reason my theme is always resetting.
so i always have t ostart from scratch a theme does not last longer then 3 days on my machine it just resets

i have a centrino 1.8 laptop running xp pro

I double that report. The PC where it happens is also a laptop, RoverBook (non-mobile Intel Pentium 2,66 Ghz, 256 RAM, integrated 32MB Intel video controller, WinXP Home SP1).

But what happened today to my home AveScripter installation... It refuses to do any script actions (it flips, shows and hides layers but doesn't react a click). AveScripter version is 1.0.1.0. I dunno what's wrong. I didn't install or uninstall anything (unless my brother did). I didn't change anything in dll, js, vbs or xml files. I was inteding to make a few configs today, but instead... I'm very confused... All other desklets (non-Scripter) work fine, hence it's not AveDesk. System scripting engine (which is probably used in AS) works allright too (tried on GUID Generator.vbs from Installeable Packages folder of AveDesk). Do you have a clue what's going on?
I'm very bored today, my Surge Protector suddenly turned off the power, having killed my work project I was planning to finish at home. I tried to dispel with help of AS programming, but it made me a new surprise.

[EDIT] Latest beta says no scripting engine... Ooops. Where could it vanish? What to do now?

[pcm]

ya... I added that feature in the BETA version to tell you the problem. No engine means that the mscript.ocx has been unregistered. You need to reregister it. I'm planning to make the scripter reregister it automatically if it can't be loaded.

I noticed that some softwares during the uninstall process will unregister the ocx. This is out of my control and BAD BAD uninstall software.

[RIMMER]

Oh, thanks! That helped! Still can't understand what happened to my system. IE thinks he's 5.0 (when I actually have 6.sp1), Windows Genuine Check says my OS is stolen... Outlook doesn't reply the e-mails (mailto: links don't work either)... Something went terribly wrong after my last HDD died.

BTW, can AveInstaller do the shell commands after the files copied? Maybe make a simple aveinst?

[pcm]

ya... AveInstaller can easly do it I think...But I still think I'll add it in to the code anyhow... Since it happens after you uninstall, it means that even after avescripter is installed it could be broken by someone's bad uninstall.

[kerin]

AndreasV said:

This is actually system-behaviour, not AveDesk behaviour, so the desklet should just call the system wide function instead of round-tripping thru avedesk again.

#include <wininet.h>
#pragma comment(lib,"wininet.lib")

bool IsConnectedToInternet()
{
// post: true has been returned if there is an internetconnection, otherwise false has been returned
DWORD dwConnectionType = INTERNET_CONNECTION_MODEM | INTERNET_CONNECTION_LAN | INTERNET_CONNECTION_PROXY;
return InternetGetConnectedState(&dwConnectionType,0)==TRUE;
}

Sounds good for me and If this function can be called periodicaly so that if we are disconnedted and reconnected, we dont have to do "refresh data" to get the weather or RSS updated

[pcm]

The XML default for the weather is 120 mins for 7 day forcast and 30 for today forcast. With the new code. If the internet is offline and the "Time" as expired it will try every minute to get the information. So once you go online it will get the information about 1 min later. While online or offline it will not get the information again till that time as expired (120 min or 30 mins) if the time expires while your offline, it will try to get the information every minute. But it will not trigger a connect. What it will do is check if the internet is on every minute, if its off then try again 1 minute later. Otherwise just get the information and reset the delay.

120 mins and 30 mins is the "Recommended" time from weather.com. This avoids too much traffic to their site.. Any more, and they can band your IP!

[RIMMER]

Funny, the very same thing with unregistered msscript.ocx happened today to my laptop. For those, who can't understand what to do: just execute the following command line

regsvr32 msscript.ocx

and then restart the AveDesk - your widgets will get operable back.

BTW seems like the OnChange event for controls fires up even when we change the value from inside the script (not the user does it). So when I try to correct the user's input in the edit box, I get into infinite cycle.

[RIMMER]

All bugs are found while using the latest beta (xx.1.16)
Bug Description: Color Dialog results misinterpreted
When I show the color dialog with this.UI.PromptColor() and select some color there, it works, but seems like AveScripter misnterpretes the results (probably R and B bytes are confused while converting to HTML color string.)
See the screenshot attached, please. I shows the result of PromptColor() for Layer.SetColor (literally this.Layers(LayerName).SetColor(this.UI.PromptColor())).

Bug Description: Shadow is made out of the first introduced desklet layer (assumed to be a background) instead of actual desklet picture.
Items involved: Digital Clock for AveScripter
Steps to reproduce: Open Digital Clock and try to enable shadow for it. the resulting picture looks weird and doesn't correspond the real digits displayed. Obviously, the shadow is rendered with only the first layer an then stretched across the whole desklet.

Bug Description: Scripted desklets do not load their own alpha value
Items involved: Every AveScripted-powered desklet currently available (normal, hard-programmed ones work fine in this aspect)
Steps to reproduce:
1. Load any AveScripter config
2. Go to Desklet Properties dialog and set the Alpha value to non 255
3. Close the dialog with OK button. Note that alpha works now.
4. Exit AveDesk, forcing it to save the theme
5. Start AveDesk again and go to Desklet Properties dialog of selected AveScripter config. Note that Alpha became 255, and the desklet is opaque again.

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[pcm]

1 ) Color dialog confirmed and fixed for next release.

2) Shadow, I don't do any shadows, thats avedesk. But I'll look into it with Ave.

3) Alpha confirmed and fixed for next release.

[enjoilax]

Bug description: All Avescripter widgets do not work at all, for any reason
Items involved: Any Avescripter based widget

Windows Version: XP Pro SP2
DirectX version: 9.0c
System specs: P4m 2.4 Ghz, 521k Ram, 30 gig HD
Graphics card & drivers version: Nvidia 64 MB Gforce4Go edition
Desklets running: AVES - Comics, Weather IV, Calender II, Converter, digital clock

Last thing i modified to Avedesk was the Curved bar widget for Sysstats, completely uninstalling and reinstalling did nothing.