LS programming help please :)

Sunday, October 3, 2004 by werewolf | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Hi, thanks for looking.

I am trying to do something which seems to be very simple: Click the Middle mouse button and display a list of desktops from the vwm.

There is a theme, fo-src, which does this. I have looked at every .rc file I could find and I have tried the following in my theme:

I have jdesk.rc which contains the following:
jdeskworkarea "0,25,1280,974" !haven't figured out how the negative number thing works yet
*jDeskMButton3 [CTRL!none!ToggleCommand!none] << THIS WORKS
*jDeskMButton3 [!none!none!popupvwm!none]

I have popupvwm.rc which contains the following copied from the fo-src theme:
If VWM TRUE
*Popup "" !New !Popupvwm
*Popup "Desktop 1" !VWMDesk 1
*Popup "Desktop 2" !VWMDesk 2
*Popup "Desktop 3" !VWMDesk 3
*Popup "Desktop 4" !VWMDesk 4
*Popup ~New
ENDIF

I have these two entries in my theme.rc file:
include "$configDir$jdesk.rc"
include "$configDir$popupvwm.rc"

I really don't know what else to do to get this to work. I've looked through the docs for the vwm module and the jdesk module, but I can't find any docs which state "if you want to do something like this, you have to have this/these .rc file(s) and you have to make entries in these .rc files and you have to set up these themevars...."

jdesk-0.711
popup2-2.1.4
ckvwm-1.40

Thanks so much. This isn't as easy as AstonShell

David

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werewolf
Reply #21 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:43 PM

I just installed your Antares theme from litestep.net and got a bunch of errors about the hotkeys not initializing.

I like the doohickey, that's pretty clever. Will have to see how you did that.

There's a little panel which reveals itself on mouse over down and to the left of the 'fan'. I can't read it, my zoomer apps can't see it, clicking on it doesn't do anything. What is it?

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Jafo
Reply #22 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:45 PM

gawd...is that all you want it to do....center button popup to switch vwms....

Jafo
Reply #23 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:46 PM

Grab Antares II from here....it's newer than the LS.net one....

werewolf
Reply #24 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:47 PM

sorry, but I can't tell if your being facetious or not...i'ts been a long day. Are you saying that it's really easy?

werewolf
Reply #25 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:50 PM

Installed Antares 2 and still got a bunch of 'hotkey failed to register errors'

werewolf
Reply #26 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:51 PM

The flippy animations are nice. Still can't figure out what that little flap by the fan says

werewolf
Reply #27 Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:59 PM

ahhh, a Jafo emblem. You should make it darker. Don't be so modest

werewolf
Reply #28 Monday, October 4, 2004 12:03 AM

Have to go to bed now. I've got a major headache trying to figure out this little stupid thing. Arrrgh.

Thanks for trying to help Jafo, sorry it was such a pain.

Jafo
Reply #29 Monday, October 4, 2004 12:34 AM

I thought you wanted to do something 'sexy' with the popup...but it's just a vwm switcher....shouldn't be that hard to set....I'll have to check what you've done to make it not work....

Strangely I don't get the hotkey errors on my Antares...though others have done so.....easy enough just to comment out the hotkey and ignore it...

Jafo
Reply #30 Monday, October 4, 2004 9:02 AM

Here....

add this to the end of theme.rc in Antares II and you'll have it working in mine....

*Popup "" !New !Popupvwm
*Popup "Desktop 1" !VWMDesk 0
*Popup "Desktop 2" !VWMDesk 1
*Popup "Desktop 3" !VWMDesk 2
*Popup "Desktop 4" !VWMDesk 3
*Popup ~New
*Desktop MButton+SHIFT !Popupvwm

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Jafo
Reply #31 Monday, October 4, 2004 9:07 AM

Check your own 'personal.rc' doesn't have a conflicting line....

Jafo
Reply #32 Monday, October 4, 2004 9:26 AM

Actually....23 resource files is just asking for trouble.

I'm sure there's better ways than that to handle options....

werewolf
Reply #33 Monday, October 4, 2004 6:34 PM

Thanks so much for all this. Actually I don't know anything about how you're suppose to set these things up. I can't find any docs on that specific issue. I can find tons of docs on individual modules though

I'm modifying the default theme which comes with Omar's installer called austerity. I haven't touched the personal theme (well, actually, I did and I didn't back it up first and well, there's a line which says "don't mess with this unless you know what you are doing". Hee hee. See to me, that just means I gotta break it and I did! So I reinstalled LS...but that's another story. I'll poke around for conflicts, but I didn't see any other popup calls from jdesk or anywhere else other than the regular two.

OK, I put the popupvwm in the bottom of the theme.rc file and got rid of popupvwm.rc. No joy.

Issuing !vwmdesk 1 in lsxcommand works great. hmmm...must eat...brb

werewolf
Reply #34 Monday, October 4, 2004 7:54 PM

OMG!!! I got the middle click to work by putting the command in personal.rc, but now the freaking shift left-click menu doesn't work and I didn't mess with that at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

werewolf
Reply #35 Monday, October 4, 2004 8:44 PM

Jafo: how many and which rc's are absolutely required for a theme to work?

Jafo
Reply #36 Monday, October 4, 2004 8:48 PM

Mouse actions for jdesk and desktop modules give you multiple settings to each mouse/keyboard control.

It's possible to have two lines trying to run the same 'action' in two different rc files causing conflict.

The theme you initially asked about has conditional statements as well linked to the vwm....so a separate 'config' again may actually disable the vwm function totally.

Jafo
Reply #37 Monday, October 4, 2004 8:51 PM

jDeskDisableMButton1
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Button 1 functionality
is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableMButton2
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Button 2 functionality
is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableMButton3
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Button 3 functionality
is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableMButtonX1
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Button X1 functionality
is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableMButtonX2
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Button X2 functionality
is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableMWheelScroll
- If set, all jDesk Mouse Wheel Scroll
functionality is disabled.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

jDeskDisableDoubleClick
- If set, all jDesk ignores Double Click actions and
    immediately executes the up action command instead
    of waiting to see if a double click is being
    executed.
- boolean value: true if set, otherwise false.

*jDeskMButton1
- parameters:
[<modkey><down-cmd><up-cmd><dblclick-cmd>]

    <modkey> can be one of the following
      SHIFT
      CTRL
      CTRL+SHIFT

    <down-cmd>
    <up-cmd>
    <dblclick-cmd>
      can be any !Bang command or executable that
      is to be executed.