Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Isaac Richards
How bout when we decompress it, we store the timestamp of the compressed thingie in one of our spiffy databases, or just stick an empty file in the decompressed dir with its name being the timestamp. Then we compare to the compressed one on startup.. work? Isaac On 04-Oct-99 Mark B. Elrod wro

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator
TED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:03 AM Subject: Re: where to install theme files to? > heh... ok so if we do that how hard would it be for us to add a theme browser to > the prefs? something that scaled down the bitmap fot the main window and blitt

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Mark B. Elrod
EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: where to install theme files to? > > > i like option 2 as well. the only downside is that if a user gets an > updated > > theme with the same name we might not rec

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:57:31AM -0700, Mark B. Elrod wrote: > i like option 2 as well. the only downside is that if a user gets an updated > theme with the same name we might not recognize it unless they know to delete > the folder it has been expanded to. how can we get around that? Themes c

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator
- Original Message - From: Mark B. Elrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:57 AM Subject: Re: where to install theme files to? > i like option 2 as well. the only downside is that if a user gets an updated > theme with the same na

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Mark B. Elrod
i like option 2 as well. the only downside is that if a user gets an updated theme with the same name we might not recognize it unless they know to delete the folder it has been expanded to. how can we get around that? elrod Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator wrote: > Sounds good to me. > > I've got a

Re: where to install theme files to?

1999-10-04 Thread Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator
Sounds good to me. I've got a follow up question to that: When and where to theme files get decompressed to? I see two reasonable options here: 1) When FreeAmp starts, it figures out what theme it needs and decompresses it into /tmp/freeamp-$pid/theme (or X:\windows\temp\theme). When FreeAmp clo