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By the way, great widget.  That was exactly my goal!  Of course, we have bigger goals now, but this is perfect.  I can now at moments notice see if people are online.

Thanks again!

Take care,

Denny

Very excellent, theshortcut. All we need is a "connect" button and provided it refreshes, it would be perfect

the refresh issue is something i still need to work out. currently you need to hit cmd-r to refresh it. i can either put a refresh button on it (more amnesty friendly), or have it refresh whenever dashboard is activated. the connect button would be nice. i can easily put a button on that starts up ET, but forcing it to connect may be more difficult. i would also like to put an ip field on the back of the widget that allows you to choose which server you are watching. of course this would still be default... but then if you had any other servers you'd like to watch you can just pull out another instance of this widget.

also i am interested in joining you all. what are the requirements and whatever...

thanks again for all the positive feedback and ideas for the widget.

If anyone wants a different skin for their widget you can download my edited version HERE ...just right-click on the widget and choose "show package contents" ...then just drag the .png file into that directory and replace the original (may want to back it up if you ever plan on going back to the default)

here's what it looks like...

theshortcut wrote:

nice one zwei.. i was thinking about incorporating the et logo similarly but got carried away with writing the code to get rid of all the annoying colorizing strings in peoples names

you can take that one if you want ...was that a custom PNG you made? ...or was that a sample png from the developer toolkit?

gotcha ...hadn't even opened up the iTunes widget

Cool Widget!    That should come in handy!  Thanks!

Great Widget! Thanks be to theshortcut for sure. It's one that I'll use all the time, anyway I am going to nitpick a little bit. I think the window could be a little bigger as some maps (ie Super Gold Rush 2) don't fit all that well in there. Otherwise, SUPER.

EXCELLENT WORK!

I do have a suggestion though. I noticed you are using a terminal command to open WolfET and connect to the server. Below is a link to the same command, but embedded in an applescript app. It will do the same thing, but it doesn't require terminal to launch. You can open it up in script editor to check out the code if you like.

http://wolf.clanmacaddict.com/downloads/MA|WolfET.zip

Widgets can call applescripts directly too, so i'm sure there is a way you could get the widget to connect to whatever server you have set in the prefs. If you'd like help with applescript just let me know. Hope this helps.

This is probably a stupid question but im assuming this thing is mac only or can it work for a PC?

I'm guessing once you set up the preferences to choose what server you want to monitor it will show up in the info.plist. If that is the case I think I have figured a way (in applescript) to pull the server info from the info.plist and dynamically integrate it so that whatever server is in the prefs it will connect to. Can't do anything without that built into the widget already though. Let me know if you need help in this area.

I did a preliminary script in which I used an edited version of the Info.plist to test it. I changed one of the lines in the .plist file to contain an IP string so I could test the launcher. If you unzip the file linked below into your User Scripts Folder and run the launcher.scpt from the applescript menu it should work just fine. The file contains the launcher.scpt and the faux Info.plist file.

The ZIP File

Notes: The script has to be in the same directory as the Info.plist file to work (that's how it would be in the widget)

You can't run the script from script editor because the "path to" command will get the path to the script editor app instead of the script itself (that's why you have to run it from the applescript menu) ...I'm assuming it will have no problem running from an osascript command. (I did test it inside a widget bundle so I know that won't be a problem)

You could probably turn it into an applescript application, but you'll have to remember to change the character count in one of the first couple lines to reflect the apps correct name length (don't change the name of the script or you'll have to edit the contents to match the new name length)

Let me know if you have questions ...or if you figure out another way to get the launcher function to work for different IPs

Good luck, you're doing a great job so far!