Widget Request

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...

Comments (Page 4)

RPGFX

on Jun 11, 2008

Well, as far as the resizing, when I hover over the right/bottom I would get the resizing cursor, but dragging simply didn't do anything.

As far as trying the sort feature, the widget opened at a height of which I only could see the borders, not even the name/age columns. That's why the lack of resizing kind of shut me down completely...

I could get no right click menu of any kind, whether it be the normal one, or the widget one, or whatever. Right clicking anywhere on the widget did nothing.

I'm running Desktop X version 3.50.060

Hope I answered your questions. I'm not on my computer right now, but I'll open it and try to mess with it some more later today.

SirSmiley

on Jun 11, 2008

Thanks for trying out guys.

This should fix some of the issues and I'm probably going to do away with the widget close when you first run it. It was suppose to fix the text issue.

zakai, I'm wondering if the menu issue isn't the button itself. It may be too small and perhaps should be sent over to the upper left corner. The other thing with the menu is it is quite large and takes a few seconds to build itself.

Get the hot potato here

zakai1369

on Jun 11, 2008

Well I tried the new version and it's loading the actual widget easier and doesn't stay saying Loading... anymore and it didn't resize itself like last time. I was able to resize it myself in both directions but when I resized the inner colums a couple of them disappeared on me. The menu button shows up fine on mouseover but when I click it I still get no result. I tried clicking and holding it and tried clicking it and then not moving the mouse. Neither worked. I get the click sound effect and I get a small spike in cpu usage as if it is trying to do something but I never actually get the menu.

SirSmiley

on Jun 11, 2008

Really appreciating the feedback.

Haven't been able to recreate the menu issue but, will see if I can streamline it somehow.
There are a lot of statements in it.

As for the columns did you get message box warning before they disappeared? I know what the main issue is with the columns and was trying to save a bunch of extra settings/variables.
Will have a work at those tomorrow.

zakai1369

on Jun 11, 2008

As for the columns did you get message box warning before they disappeared?

No.

SirSmiley

on Jun 14, 2008

This should fix the column issue.

*Cough* I've done away with the widget closing but, you most likely will have to close it by the close button or from the tray icon. It will loop sliding up/down...for some reason this strikes me as funny and I'm sure anyone who's scripted something knows how it goes. Everything works perfectly, then for no apparent reason BAMMM.

Anyways, it's great to get the feedback especially on something this size.

Through the rabbit hole lies the treasure

zakai1369

on Jun 14, 2008

Ok deleted the old one and cleared it out of the DesktopX cache.

Downloaded this one and fired it up. This picture shows what I got from that. I'll write more below it.

The top image is the message that I got upon starting it up. It never actually exited though.

Right below that is what it looked like after click Ok.

Below that is what it looked like after hitting the toggle list button. Also in that shot is what I see when mousing over the menu button.

Hitting the menu button still didn't have any effect though.

Also I noticed after getting the error message it actually created a settings.ini file which contained the following:

[BirthdayTracker]
PageFormat=
WidthMinMax=135,919
HeightMinMax=44,563
PositionSize=761,487,199,432
Open=True
Visible=True

[Columns]
SortMethod=
SortColumn=
DateFormat=
ColPosSize=12,58,28,1
Col3Visible=0
Col2Visible=0
StatusBarDate=

[TextFont]
AlarmFont=
PgStatusFont=
TooltipFont=
ContentFont=
TitleFont=

[Tooltip]
DateFormat=
Enabled=

[Alarm]
LoopTime=
LoopSound=
Position=
Timer=
AlarmMute=
Enabled=

[Sounds]
Close=
Minimize=
Delete=
Add=
RecordSelect=
MenuSelect=
SlideDown=
SlideUp=
PageDown=
PageUp=
Alarm=
Enabled=

Tried closing it out and restarting figuring that maybe it would change something since it had the settings.ini already present. But everything worked the same.

Hope some of this helps.

RPGFX

on Jul 17, 2008

any new updates on this widget? This forum seems to have gone dead...

SirSmiley

on Jul 17, 2008

Hey, thanks for the bump because I missed zakai's last post.

I'm not going to get to this for a few days as I'm on some groovy pain & muscle relaxants as my right side is acting up.

What I think I'll do is remove the resizing feature, leave auto sizing based on the list and the page navigation/scrolling. That way if someone wants to put it in their sidebar it should ber esier I thnik?

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