I'm sorry feline, it's liquidaqua...... oops Starone has already posted it.

I just thought you were prescient (?) or at the very least psychic.

Hi werewolf. You're back. Now if we could just find feline again.

Yes, I'll be there with a Wincustomize T-shirt on. However, it seems if anything says skinners (and when whispered in email I get porn emails in reply), the wrong idea seems to pop up. May have to fight everyone off that isn't part of the skinner crowd.

Whoa, this is getting to be quicker than email. Well, maybe feline will show up soon too.

Hey, feline your back. Hold on and I'll try to track werewolf down.

Hi feline...

can you get into the irc and /join #quicklaunch ?

irc?

feline once heard of that somewhere

at the moment i have a more basic problem.
i cannot seem to get the smart buttons to work at all!

theory a) i havent yet found them
theory they just arent working on this machine
theory c) the version of the skin i have doesnt contain them
theory d) i have the same problem you have. but since i dont have OE installed, it is showing up differently.

all right then. loading the UIS file for the Liquidaqua skin in vim shows that this is by starone, and that it really does have smart buttons.

i *think* this may be progress

werewolf, which version of OE do you have installed?
also, is the OE exe referenced by your PATH variable?

trying to run down some of the variables ahead of tomorrows assult on the UIS file

If you mean the quick launch menu I have the same problem on Win2k. It works fine on XP but on 2k it opens the app in Object Edit. It must have to do with the path for the quick launch links being a WinNT directory instead of a Win directory. I'd guess that the script has the path in it... maybe you can edit the script? I haven't tried fixing it yet, just disabled the smart button on the 2k box...

Too early in the a.m. I guess as I forgot to thank you for your response DavidK. I beg forgiveness.

By the way, Feline, want to change nicks? Hum, on second thought probably not. Might get too confusing.

DavidK, interesting idea.

it is worth noting that when i first started hunting this problem with starone it failed on her win98 machine, but worked on my win98 machine.

so, if a directory with the expected name is created, and links placed into it, the quick launch menu plugin should start working? anyone want to try that experiment?

i am not sure you are right DavidK, since the plugin seems to be correctly finding the quick launch dir.

on my winXP box, this dir is in:
D:\Documents and Settings\Feline\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

i have just added another shortcut to this folder, and when i reload notepad it is picked up by the smart button menu. i had to reload notepad before this change was picked up though.

i was under the impression that windows has a function to return these paths to your program, so they shouldnt be hard coded. as i recall, this folder is in roughly the same place in both win2k and winXP, so if it can be found under one OS, why not the other?

also, i doubt that the abouve path is hard coded, since it wouldnt work on anyone else's machine.

what we could do with is seeing if this works on anyone's win2k machine.

anyone out there able to prove or disprove this?

i have a win2k machine at work, so can check it out there, but wont be back again until tuesday (saturday now). a faster answer would be nice.

starone - Oh yes, Feline, the irc. I'll let werewolf explain it to you. (After all, I'm just a dizzy blonde at the moment. Too early in the a.m. to think logically.)

feline *sigh*
making me choose between a dizzy blond and werewolf just isnt fair

i want both of you!

but if i do that then i would be taking all your credit for all your skins!

that is you at number 5 in the top authors list you know!

how about we just catch up with T-Man instead? if we ask him nicely he has the power to change your nick. how about "starone the pussycat"?