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The server query script on the wolf site still works, I just haven't updated it with the new IP.  In the meantime, this link works:

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I don't have Tiger yet (will probably end up buying a Mini sometime soon to replace my aging dual 450) but once I do I'll look into working on the coding backend.  I'll probably implement the querying as a PHP script that will be bundled with the widget.

Note to self...wrap my head around this:

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Any chance that the widget could also function to let you into a server?  Like have it say the map and such of a couple favorite servers, but the widget would also start ET and put you on your favorite server all in one click?  Tons of PC programs that do this, but no Mac.  I would LOVE this feature in a widget.

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Maybe in a couple of year I'll be able to do that, but as it stands I'm a poor 21 year old college student getting ready to shell out 50k for law school.  My credit card doesn't see much use at this point. 

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So are you working on a Widget then?  All I want is a Widget solely for our clan and server.  I just want it to tell the map and who's online.  The other stuff is cool, but I wanted to start simple.

I did think it would be cool if you could fill in on the back of the widget the IP address, thus allowing any ET server to be used with that widget.

Kind of like the weather widgets.  You put in your zip and it does it's job.

I did find this site that uses a PHP gQuery script. 

http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041 … Gameserver 

Note that it tells players and stuff too.  I am trying to see if this will work for us.

Altivec, catch me online and we can chat and work on this if you like.  I am really anxious to get a widget done.

Take care,

Denny

I was going to work on the coding and leave the graphics to someone else.  What you made is a good start, but it still needs some 'widget-iti-zation' (needs a background PNG, 2nd side, plist files, etc).  My iMac will be here Friday, in the meantime I've been trying to create a skeleton for the widget using Xcode.  It's kind of difficult to wrap my head around it since I don't know very much javascript and I don't have any of the example widgets that come with Tiger.

If you check versiontracker or macupdate there is a template for XCode that creates all of the necessary files needed for the widget.  The Dashboard Programming Guide has a lot of good information.

What I was thinking was this:

Side 1:  Display name of the server, IP, # of players, current map on the top half.  On the bottom have  2 columns for axis and allies, showing the players and frags for each player on each team.  Click the name of the server and WolfET launches and connects you to the server.

Side 2: Preferences where you set the IP and Port of the server you want info for, and how often to query (don't allow values less than 10-15 seconds to keep the server from being slammed with requests).  Drag the WolfET application anywhere on the backside so the widget knows where it is so it can launch and connect to the server.

The iMac arrived today,  and it's pretty sweet.  I'll probably get to work on the widget sometime tonight or tomorrow.

Denny, can you re-send me the image you came up with last week minus all of the text?

It turns out that the iMac had bad hardware.  It died after 5 hours of use.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/osxaltivec/

Replacement should be here thursday or friday.

Nice work!  I havent got a chance to see it in action since I'm at work, but I did download it and pick it apart.  I see that it pulls the info from a PHP script running on a site.  I think that would be the best way to code the widget quick to get it out to the masses, but eventually I'd like to put the code that pulls the server info into the widget directly in the form of a PHP or Perl script (or widget plugin written in Cocoa) that queries the game server directly.

Hey, a widget I'll definitely use!

amnesty doesn't seem to work with his widget ...at least not on this machine

update: the server is back up so the previous link to download works as well as the widget itself again.

still looking for new hosting and working on implimenting more features