I've been wanting a way to see who on my friends list is online without going through the trouble of launching SL and connecting myself recently.
I noticed that the Community page has a frame embedded in it that shows who's online in your friends list, the url is http://secondlife.com/community/friends-iframe.php
Combine that with this handy little dashboard widget I've found : http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/microbrowser.html
And I can tell who's online any time I activate my dashboard.
Now I'm thinking about learning how to make a Konfabulator or Dashboard widget of my own that does the same thing.
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Gog Gremlin
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10-11-2005 12:26
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Lora Morgan
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10-11-2005 12:52
Nifty! Works great, thanks for the tip.
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Enabran Templar
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10-11-2005 13:32
omfg macs suck lol!
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Marcos Fonzarelli
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10-11-2005 14:23
I got it working after Cienna helped me.
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Cienna Rand
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10-11-2005 14:34
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Hank Hoodoo
Middle Management
Join date: 25 Dec 2004
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10-11-2005 15:05
Sweet! Been looking for something like that.
Next step: Anyone wanna do what it takes to make this into a dashboard buddy widget with some AIM-like features? i.e. noises when buddies sign on and off, "buddy pounce" (I would love that one), etc. _____________________
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jester Knox
Sculpter of Water
Join date: 22 Apr 2004
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10-11-2005 15:24
very cool.
i found the font size a bit small so i did some poking around it and if you go to the widget itself (Users/<username>/Library/Widgets/) and show package contents on it you can edit the MicroBrowser.css file to change the fonts and colors. to make the changes take effect just go into the dashboard and hover the cursor over the widget and hit command-R and it will refresh the Widget. jester . _____________________
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Gog Gremlin
Pretending to do work.
Join date: 8 Jun 2005
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10-11-2005 15:38
Sweet! Been looking for something like that. Next step: Anyone wanna do what it takes to make this into a dashboard buddy widget with some AIM-like features? i.e. noises when buddies sign on and off, "buddy pounce" (I would love that one), etc. Now that would indeed be cool, I'd imagine it would be a lot easier if the data was available in a raw format instead of as a HTML table but I guess the contents of the table could be broken down into just a list of users. I think Konfabulator would have to be used for those kind of features however since Dashboard widgets to my knowledge only run when they are visable on screen. |
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Icon Serpentine
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10-11-2005 16:59
a konfab widget would be nice. it's mostly just xml and javascript.. maybe I'll do it if I actually am bored AND have enough time.
 as mentioned before, it'd be neat to have IM interactions with this list. it would also be super-awesome of LL to start packaging these sorts of things as xml web-services. and maybe finally give us a fully functional xml-rpc implementation. _____________________
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Prester Joffre
Alchemist
Join date: 4 Dec 2005
Posts: 87
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new mac widget
01-13-2006 18:29
Here is my SL widget, it has some additional fucntionality like SL stats and ability to connect to an ingame server to display stats from your parcel.
http://www.sweetvitriol.com |
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Patroklus Murakami
Social Democrat
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
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01-14-2006 13:45
Well done Prester! Looks sweet
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Blueman Steele
Registered User
Join date: 28 Dec 2004
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01-14-2006 16:47
I dont' have Tiger yet... any chance this could be done as a yahoo widget (then those poor PC users could try it too).
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Simadane Sleeper
Registered User
Join date: 11 Jan 2006
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01-15-2006 10:32
I dont' have Tiger yet... any chance this could be done as a yahoo widget (then those poor PC users could try it too). Most likely, although it won't be as simple as this because Yahoo Widgets doesn't have html rendering. |
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Prester Joffre
Alchemist
Join date: 4 Dec 2005
Posts: 87
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konfabulator and/or webpage
01-15-2006 12:08
Ya, I plan to do that one of these days. It's all AJAX so it could even be a web page after removing all the apple specific widget calls in the javascrtipt.
But i really don't care about PC users. lol. |
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Ali Maltz
Just another RL escapee
Join date: 25 Sep 2005
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And another widget...
01-16-2006 01:06
Thought you might like to know that I made another widget not long ago. It's barely more than a configured Microbrowser, but there's a pretty logo and a splash screen that reminds you to log into the SL site. Which is worth it, right?
http://secondlife.funwithstuff.com/SL-Friends-Online-v2.1.zip Version 2.1 *is* doing some (very) basic screen scraping (not just posting the web page) so when I have time I'll alphabetize the list (what's with the order now?) and maybe add some other stuff. The problem with doing IM-style functionality is that the widget doesn't update all the time, only when you hit F12. But yes, it's doable. Note this this widget is *unlikely* to get as fancy as Preston's, and I haven't even seen it yet. Feedback here or on the other thread is welcome. /164/37/80826/1.html |
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Prester Joffre
Alchemist
Join date: 4 Dec 2005
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Not Preston.
01-17-2006 00:07
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Harris Hare
Second Life Resident
Join date: 5 Nov 2004
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01-17-2006 00:23
Fantastic widget, Prester! Excellent work. It's comprehensive and looks good to boot.
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Prester Joffre
Alchemist
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v1.2 of SL Status Widget and in-game Server available
01-18-2006 01:22
v1.2 of SL Status Widget and in-game Server available
Free server upgrade for existing users, IM me in game for upgrade.. http://www.sweetvitriol.com New in this release - can set refresh interval in widget preferences and it propigates back to server. - ability to toggle in game visitor alerts on and off - ability to toggle debug chat on and off. - more complete server status message on touch - adjustable sensor range - commented preference file - bug fixes. Delete all your old SL stats widgets before installing this one. _____________________
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Jeska Linden
Administrator
Join date: 26 Jul 2004
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01-18-2006 10:01
Moved to the Mac forum for further discussion.
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