It would be great to have an SL WIdget to tell you which of your friends are online....
don't know if SL technology allows that, but I know there are a few similar widgets for things like XBox live, etc.
Anyone know if this could be done?
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08-30-2005 09:15
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Torley Linden
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08-30-2005 09:18
Welly well well let's see now... if it can hook into this page you might be all set:
http://secondlife.com/community/friends.php _____________________
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08-30-2005 09:33
Ah ha!
I didn't know that page existed! I think it would be easy to do now. Although I have NEVER designed a widget. But that's all they do is hook into a page like that I think, right? hmmmm.... _____________________
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Enabran Templar
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08-30-2005 12:27
Hmm, all you'd have to do is supply the widget with your login and pass and then cURL could login to SL.com and transfer the page every x minutes. You'd just have to isolate each row in that HTML table and create a corresponding entry in the widget.
I guess you could also auto-load that page as HTML, but that's not as sexy. And the point of Widgets is teh SEXAY edit: It'd be much easier if the friends status was XML. _____________________
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Chage McCoy
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08-30-2005 15:07
Widgets are PITA. I turned dashboard off.
I much prefer something like konfabulator where I do not have to bring up a particular screen to see the widgets. Ever seen how much physical RAM dashboard uses? Thats reason enough to disable it  And yes I know about amnesty, but I dont need more icons in my menu thanks  |
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08-31-2005 06:43
Widgets are PITA. I turned dashboard off. I much prefer something like konfabulator where I do not have to bring up a particular screen to see the widgets. Ever seen how much physical RAM dashboard uses? Thats reason enough to disable it And yes I know about amnesty, but I dont need more icons in my menu thanks haha, well everyone's got an opinion. I prefer having the widgets hide until I want them... and the RAM issue isn't *quite* as black and white, the way OSX uses ram. Lots about that in the Apple forums. Anywho, I'm just wondering if anyone's thought of making a dashboard widget, not particularly whether anyone likes Dashboard or not! I love konfab, but for me Dashboard fits my working style better. _____________________
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Laukosargas Svarog
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08-31-2005 07:25
And the point of Widgets is teh SEXAY mmm, I thought the point of Widgets was to justify the jobs of people who think it's cool to clog up an operating system with pointless bandwidth wasting gimmicky eyecandy. Nothing against eyecandy in its place but I seem to remember a dim and distant past when desk accessories were abandoned because they were nothing more than small applications that wasted processor bandwidth and memory. History has a habit of repeating itself eh ? #!/bin/sh #Turn off Dashboard defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES #kill the dock to put the widget call in effect killall "Dock" |