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LiquidCode · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 11:11 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot Jules, I got the reg. Smile

Hum... interesting thought. That is a very good idea. Now, how to go about developing it... I'll have to give it some good thought.

Thanks Again,

Garrett · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

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I think Jules is detecting when a file is opened, thus backing up the file before any changes are made to it. A crc would check after the file has already been modified thus nullifying the backup.

CodeScript · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject:

No I think he is using a File folder monitor API.
I don't remember it's exact name now but it will detect changes made to a monitored folder. There were some problems using it with @LIB() directly (I think callback) and so I had left it.
You can do CRC way but I don't know if all the apps it would be intended to be used allow shared access to a file in use. I know.. with VDS that may not be a problem.

jules · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

Yes, CodeScript is right. I'm using that API. In a DLL, not using @lib.

There are DLLs that provide the same functionality under Win9x, but they are expensive. I don't know how you'd go about writing one from scratch, but it seems like a lot of work for an obsolete OS. And if you were monitoring a big chunk of the directory tree, checking all the files to see if they had changed would be a big overhead. It would appear that Windows hooks the actual file I/O operations, so you get an event each time a program writes to a file.

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vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject:

Garrett · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

Mindpower, that'd be great. I'm kind of tired of having to dig up files
with undelete everytime VDS dumps my directory.

Re Jullian and "Obsolete OS"..... Sticking Out Tounge

I like my obsolete os's Wink

-Garrett

vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject:

Serge · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject:

i agree jules about the creativity challenged...a dsu with skins would be great Very Happy

serge

CodeScript · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:31 am Post subject:

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:10 pm Post subject:

About the skinning. How did you invision it working? Do you mean a program that creates skins or like Serge said a DSU that has different skins compiled into it that can be used a VDS controls or am I way off base here? Confused

jules · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:40 pm Post subject:

I was thinking of a program that created skins. You would need a number of different skins which would provide the themes for the user to choose. But they would be designed in such a way that they could be chopped up and then reassembled like building blocks, so the user could make a window as tall or as wide as they needed. You could perhaps have a choice of optional features that fitted in with the theme. Ideally you could then produce a single bitmap of the finished skin that you could use for the background of your VDS dialog.

CodeScript · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject:

Hi Jules
I recieved the reg.
Thanks a lot.

Regards
CodeScript