Published on April 29, 2008 By RPGFX In Skinning
ok, if any of you expert widget makers out there would be willing to make me a very specific widget, let me know.  What I'm looking for is this...

An age widget, which simply uses some kind of script to calculate someone's age based on me entering their date of birth or something like that, and displays just their name and age.  And the age would change automatically when the person has a birthday.  Is that possible?  I'm sure one of you amazing widgeteers out there can do this.  I've got alot of cousings and nephews and uncles who's age I can never remember.  And rather than having to look up birthdays all the time, then figure out their age from that, I'd like my computer to do it for me...   Ok, now here's the annoying part.  I want it to be pretty simple looking... just a basic white background, with a little shadowing and bevelling on the edges, but not much.  The width needs to be 138, (the width of all my other widgets I use) and the height of course would/could expand depending on how many names are on the list... And 8 pt Seogue for the font, in black.  And just a simple little button that brings up a dialog to add names and birthdates...

I know I'm being kind of annoying and specific, but hey, if I'm going to request a widget, I might as well take all the guess work out of it, right? 

Below is a mock up that I came up with...

Thanks so much ahead of time if anyone decides to give this a go...



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on May 03, 2008
Awesome project.   
on May 03, 2008
cool
on May 05, 2008
Late Sunday, I breakd it. Not because of DX or the script persay but, cloning 200 text objects for 100 records brought it down.

Have switched over to three text columns, just complicates some other features.
Hopefully you will be able to enable/disable the age and/or birth date column. The birth date for sure.

Oh, it's sizable now and will be pageable as in goes up or down a page of names at a time.

Quick Pic:
on May 06, 2008
This is really cool.. love these kinds of things.
on May 06, 2008
you're getting 2 more karma points from me today, Sir... thanks so much for putting so much into this. You rock.

BTW, are those random people, or do you actually know 2 people over the age of 100. That would be pretty incredible.
on May 06, 2008
You're welcome.

No, it's just a portion of a random list of famous people. Anyone I know who get's close to 100 does a stupid thing and starts listening to their doctor's.

Update: May 9/08

Just a little update to let you know it's still being worked on.
Took a break from major scripting to double check automatic sizing.
Should be easy to skin by just replacing images, no changes to the script.

on May 13, 2008
Another update.
To Do:
- Fix Selector & Highlight issues
- Option to use registry or settings file
- Skinning
- Other?

FYI this has more code than my reflector gadget. Hopefully that gives you an idea why it seems to be moving slowly.



on May 13, 2008
Looking great
on May 13, 2008
wow man... you do some cool stuff! putting me to shame.. LOL
on May 13, 2008
This is fascinating, the birth of a widget!Thank you for posting pictures of it SirSmiley.  
on May 13, 2008
WOW nice Sir  
on May 13, 2008
double post   
on May 13, 2008
Wow, you really took this baby off the porch and raised it... but I digress... I really appreciate all the work you're putting into it. It's looking great, and it's FAR more feature rich than I ever hoped for. Thanks again!
on May 21, 2008
and it's FAR more feature rich than I ever hoped for


Yeah, I'm beginning to regret adding so many features...it's not the features that are the issue it's making sure the little things co-exist.

It's getting there.
- Columns are now sizable,
- you can hide the age/birthday columns
- record highlight(finished)
- record selection/deletion.(finished)
- option to run from registry or settings file. (finished)

on May 21, 2008
I would love to look over this code when its all done to see how your doing the row/col thing its something i have always struggled with in DX.

This is so cool, I bow to your awesomeness.
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