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saving schemepalette

Started by melf, 2008.08.19, 18:42:53

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melf

As eschemes not yet is free of problems and make eg xwlan to not work allright, I'm trying out the ordinary schemepalette. A problem for me has been to save schemes I've done, and move it to other machines or use after a reinstall of eCS. I guess thats no problem for those of you that are programmers but for me as an "enduser" it has been.....till I found "iniassistant" on hobbes. File is named inias007.zip (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=inias007.zip&stype=all&sort=type&dir=%2F) by Herwig B and makes a rexx-script of parts of the ini-file. In my case I choose "PM Colors" in os2.ini and so it gives me a rexx-script which I by executing can implement that part of the ini-file on whatever machine I want. Really cool.

This is a new scheme that I've now been able to save. (I made a new e-button and a changed background in xwlan-widgets to get a smoother look. I'm also using a window theme of  David G).


1024*768:http://elfonnet.nu/pics/blue.jpg
/Mikael

Pete

Hi Melf


IniAssistant sounds potentially useful.

I use Object Packager from Object Desktop V2 to create a complete copy of a Desktop.

It is possible to have Object Packager save the Desktop as a rexx script. This allows me to - with a bit of rexx scripting - selectively recreate chunks of that Desktop on other systems that do not have Object Desktop installed.

If the other system does have Object Desktop installed it is a simple case of drag'n'dropping any required Desktop Objects from the Desktop Object Package onto the new Desktop - very easy  :-)

In fact using Object Packager is probably the best way to migrate an existing installation when updating eCS - did a better job than the last Migrate Install that I attempted with eCS1.2R.

When I started creating my own scheme using the (eCS1.0) Scheme Palette (ages ago) my first action was to create a copy of the Scheme Palette as Petes Scheme Palette - that allowed me to fiddle with all existing schemes and not muck up any originals.

Petes Scheme Palette copy is now on my eCS1.2R system having survived being copied to eCS1.1 and 1.2 previously using the Object Packager method.

Not yet sure if it will make it to eCS2.0 though - RC5 is not a reliable, stable system here, very prone to a choice of Trap000c/d/e after a short period of use of any major application eg PMView, Seamonkey, OpenOffice.

Regards

Pete


melf

Hi Pete. I guess it is the Star Dock thing you're talking about. I've never used it but it seems very good as you describe it. Nevertheless IniAssistant suits my needs perfectly, I don't need more!

/Mikael