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%nickname% - September 4, 2007
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The new version fixes the problem. Each instance now restarts where I left it. Super. Many Thanks,
Ross.
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%nickname% - September 3, 2007
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Cool. Thanks. Looking forward to trying them out. Cheers!
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%nickname% - September 2, 2007
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Ross: I've made some changes to the next version which I hope will improve matters.
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%nickname% - August 29, 2007
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Hiys. I'm still having the spawning probs and I'm using the latest version.
I have 4 instances running with a few other widgets that I drag onto my second monitor to act as live photoframe of sorts.
Every time I have to restart yahoo widgets such as on a reboot, all of the other widgets maintain their last positions apart from each instance of webimages, which restart towards the top left of my primary monitor all on top of each other.
Can anything be done to solve this problem?
Cheers.
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%nickname% - June 4, 2007
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gazzagaryq: Yahoo! Widgets 4 introduced a change in the way preferences are handled on Windows. This causes the Widget to behave as you describe. The change in behavior was an unintended side-effect of changes made to implement the dock. We are still considering how best to restore the old behavior. The Widget still behaves as intended on the Macintosh.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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gazzagaryq - June 1, 2007
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Ok, Thanks and one other thing.
When I restart my pc, I want webimages to display 3 different images beside each other on the desktop. What currently happens is all 3 images are behind one another (spawned on top of each other) and I have to move them into their correct position.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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gazzagaryq - June 1, 2007
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Ok, Thanks and one other thing.
When I restart my pc, I want webimages to display 3 different images beside each other on the desktop. What currently happens is all 3 images are behind one another (spawned on top of each other) and I have to move them into their correct position.
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gazzagaryq - May 31, 2007
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Ok, Thanks and one other thing.
When I restart my pc, I want webimages to display 3 different images beside each other on the desktop. What currently happens is all 3 images are behind one another (spawned on top of each other) and I have to move them into their correct position.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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gazzagaryq - May 31, 2007
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Ok, Thanks and one other thing.
When I restart my pc, I want webimages to display 3 different images beside each other on the desktop. What currently happens is all 3 images are behind one another (spawned on top of each other) and I have to move them into their correct position.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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g7awz@btinternet.com - May 24, 2007
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WebImages was designed to display images. However, it can play some audio media and display some video media. Because video cannot be rendered in a Konfabulator window, the Widget has to use external applications or plug-ins to render video. On Windows, there is no easy way to determine a file's type if there is no file extension and many URLs don't have file extensions. On the Macintosh, there is a way to determine the type of a file that has no extension.
When an extension is present or can be inferred, WebImages tries to do the following:
Media with extensions .mov and .avi are played in QuickTime,
.wma, .wmv, .wm and .asf are played in Windows Media Player,
.ra, and .rm are played in RealPlayer.
Metafiles with extensions .wax, .wvx, .asx and .ram are played in WMP or RP as appropriate.
Sound files with extensions .aif, .au, .mp3, .snd, .wav are played directly by the Widget.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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%nickname% - May 23, 2007
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that only needs a "copy&paste new URLs" to make my dream.
I´m pretty sure after my searchs that creating "hierarquical menus" is out of bounds for me (a pity. imagine some organized by "regions", "states" or "genres"). but I prefer to extend it to the 200 allowed "quick links".
Maybe a new generation of "streaming player widgets" from all the world are waiting for some of this kind. I guess better than one for each radio (as by now).....
Thanks in advance, and sorry if you keep reading till here.
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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%nickname% - May 23, 2007
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However, it currently has no provision for mjpg, but I might be able to allow that. Do you have sample URLs?
September 7, 2005 "
As many of the URLs don´t have an extension, the YWI says:"No image or sound selected", or some like that and refuses to play.
want samples?. these opens pasting the adress at the WMP:
http://streammax.alsolnet.com/mdqteleweb
other works with RealPlayer/VLC/Media Player Classic if the starting string (adress) is mms:/, as at (radio)"mms://streammitre.uigc.net/mitrevivo"
If we can select a default player in preferences, maybe adding the path (I found 1 widget that works with VLC this way), no matter the extension, we can use the YWI as a TV set. (Of course selecting the refresh freq. to 24 hs. (or what about a "none" option.))
I know this is not what YWI was designed for, but I lack of programming habilities, and keep going from 1 widget to another searching for that only needs a "copy&paste new URL
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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pindonguito - May 23, 2007
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Hi all. At least a cool & great widget!. Even if it doesn´t fill my needs, it´s still usefull.
btw, I´ve been looking a LOT of webcams and radio widgets but, what about video streaming widgets?!. Have found only 1 and without working menus (Streaming Tv Widget). And the author looks to me more interested in money than sharing the code, but that doesn´t matter.
I had made a compilation from all the internet webtv stream links available in my country (Argentina) and want to share it with locals and those living in other countries (so what better than yahoo widgets), but the program only opens those with the .asx, .wvx extension. :(
then I was reading aaallll the 13 pages with posts, and read Harry writing:
"Harry Whitfield
Joe: Konfabulator cannot currently display any movie streams. On the Macintosh only, WebImages invokes QuickTime Player, RealPlayer or Windows Media Player to display streams in separate windows. However, it currently has no provision for mjpg,
This comment applies to version 3.0.3 |
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g7awz@btinternet.com - May 21, 2007
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From the authors: After downloading WebImages 3.0.2, users should rename the Web Images.widget file so that it is called WebImages.widget (i.e. delete the space in the middle of the name). This will enable the Widget to access preferences and locations entered previously.
On Windows, with Yahoo! Widgets 4.0, spawned Widgets will all use the parent's preferences. This is caused by an unexpected change in the way the Widget Engine handles the preferences.
This comment applies to version 3.0.2 |
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g7awz@btinternet.com - May 21, 2007
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gazzagaryq; It already does that.
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gazzagaryq - May 20, 2007
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Great widget but could you add the ability to display .gif files from websites.
Thats all I ask, thanks.
This comment applies to version 3.0.2 |
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g7awz@btinternet.com - April 22, 2007
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scheung98: re 1) You may select a location and edit it, even if it fails to display. The title of the failed location is not displayed (the title continues to match the displayed image), but if you alt-click the + button, you can edit the selected failed location.
re 2) There is a pause button (#4 on the left). The title is displayed if there is enough space for it. You may use the magnify button to make the frame bigger to see the title.
This comment applies to version 3.0.1 |
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%nickname% - April 21, 2007
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Great Widget. Not sure if you take requests, but would like to see the following features:
1) Make it easier to edit the locations...many times a website changes their source and the location needs to be modified. If no image is displayed, it's impossible to edit the location. Suggest a right-click opens menu to select edit or delete or add locations funstion, which opens another menu to easily select the location you wish to edit or delete.
2) Eliminate all the other buttons except for the forward button so the the title of the location can be displayed. No reason why those buttons can't be added in the menu instead. Also, how about adding a stop (pause) button?
Thanks for your hard work.
This comment applies to version 3.0.1 |
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%nickname% - April 18, 2007
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ellobobill: Please read the section "Special Startup Mode" that is in the Help.pdf file that is included inside the Widget (you can unzip a copy of the .widget file to find it). I've also uploaded a copy of the Help.pdf file here: http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Beta/WebImagesHelp.pdf
The chances are that you have an invalid URL. In "Special Startup Mode" you can delete suspect URLs. If that does not help, please make a full report in the appropriate Konfabulator forum, with your full system details, etc.
This comment applies to version 3.0.1 |
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ellobobill - April 11, 2007
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This worked great for 2 days. I had it set up and was saving pictures....then I restarted my laptop and it keeps telling me that "Web Images can't load itself" or something. I've tried re-installing, deleting, re-downloading. NOTHING has worked anyone have any ideas? THANKS!
This comment applies to version 3.0.1 |
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Harry Whitfield - October 18, 2006
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CJ: If you are still having problems, contact me at the email address that is in the WebImages About-box.
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Harry Whitfield - October 17, 2006
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CJ: You can make a debug.txt file in Notepad or any plain-text editor. It does not matter what it contains - it can even be empty. Put the file in the WebImages system.widgetDataFolder (which is also called WebImages.widget) alongside the Resources and Spawns folders. Then start WebImages. It will then start in a Special Mode which enables you to delete (bad) URLs.
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CJ - October 17, 2006
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Harry: Thanks for that but I'm not very good at these things and don't really know what to do to make a debug.txt file and where to put it? Thats why it is nice when you do all the work.
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Harry Whitfield - October 15, 2006
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CJ: You have to make a debug.txt file and put it in the right place. It does not matter what is in the file. The presence of the file is used as a flag to tell the widget to use its special startup mode.
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CJ - October 15, 2006
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Harry,
Thanks for all the info. but I cannot find a debug.txt file. I can only find a info.plist file? (which will not open) in my WebImages.widget folder. I use Windows XP.
Any further suggestions?
Many thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - October 13, 2006
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In my previous post replace "Konfabulator" by "Yahoo! Widget Engine".
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Harry Whitfield - October 13, 2006
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... is normally located at
~/Library/Application Support/Konfabulator/Widgets/WebImages.widget or at
~/Library/Application Support/Konfabulator/Widgets/WebImagesXXX.kon,
and in the equivalent places on Windows.
The debug.txt file is used as a flag - its contents are irrelevant.
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Harry Whitfield - October 13, 2006
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From the manual enclosd with the widget:
Special Startup Mode
It can occasionally happen that a user enters an invalid URL, which causes WebImages to fail and prevents it from restarting normally. The invalid URL could be deleted from the widget's .plist file on the Macintosh or from the Windows Registry, but these operations are likely to be error prone. To get around this problem, WebImages has a special startup mode. If there is a file called debug.txt in a widget's or a spawn's system.widgetDataFolder, then the widget or spawn puts up a dialog as it starts which asks the user if she would like to delete URLs. If the user says "yes", it puts up the delete dialog (as if the wrench button had been used). This is repeated until the user says "no". After that the widget or spawn starts as normal. This saves the user from editing .plist files on the Macintosh or the Registry on Windows.
On the Macintosh, the system.widgetDataFolder is normally located a
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CJ - October 13, 2006
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I've been using this great widget for some time now but recently wanted to change the picture URL. I think I wrongly clicked on a non-picture URL and now the widget gets stuck on "Loading image..." when it opens. The only way I can close it is thru Task Manager, nothing on the widget will respond. I have deleted the widget files and reloaded them but still have the same problem. Is there a way, or can there be, to reset the widget. I found it so useful.
Thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - September 28, 2006
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leor: Contact me at the email address that is in the WebImages About-box.
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leor - September 28, 2006
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Thanks Harry for the quick reply...,
But the problem is that the picture URL is not static.
Let me try to explain again:
the primary url is: http://www.flickr.com/explore/
this brings back an html page that contains another url which is dynamic:
http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg
meaning the /89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg changes each time...
If i put the picture in the primary URL it will always fetch me the same picture...
I need somehow to put this URL http://www.flickr.com/explore/ as primary...
and to fetch the picture from this dynamic URL:
http://static.flickr.com/XX/XXXXXX.jpg
please advice... thanks! :)
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leor - September 28, 2006
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Thanks Harry for the quick reply...,
But the problem is that the picture URL is not static.
Let me try to explain again:
the primary url is: http://www.flickr.com/explore/
this brings back an html page that contains another url which is dynamic:
http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg
meaning the /89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg changes each time...
If i put the picture in the primary URL it will always fetch me the same picture...
I need somehow to put this URL http://www.flickr.com/explore/ as primary...
and to fetch the picture from this dynamic URL:
http://static.flickr.com/XX/XXXXXX.jpg
please advice... thanks! :)
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leor - September 28, 2006
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Thanks Harry for the quick reply...,
But the problem is that the picture URL is not static.
Let me try to explain again:
the primary url is: http://www.flickr.com/explore/
this brings back an html page that contains another url which is dynamic:
http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg
meaning the /89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg changes each time...
If i put the picture in the primary URL it will always fetch me the same picture...
I need somehow to put this URL http://www.flickr.com/explore/ as primary...
and to fetch the picture from this dynamic URL:
http://static.flickr.com/XX/XXXXXX.jpg
please advice... thanks! :)
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leor - September 28, 2006
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Thanks Harry for the quick reply...,
But the problem is that the picture URL is not static.
Let me try to explain again:
the primary url is: http://www.flickr.com/explore/
this brings back an html page that contains another url which is dynamic:
http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg
meaning the /89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg changes each time...
If i put the picture in the primary URL it will always fetch me the same picture...
I need somehow to put this URL http://www.flickr.com/explore/ as primary...
and to fetch the picture from this dynamic URL:
http://static.flickr.com/XX/XXXXXX.jpg
please advice... thanks! :)
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Harry Whitfield - September 27, 2006
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You can enter the picture url as Primary URL. That has just worked for me.
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leor - September 27, 2006
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Great piece of Widget. But I am having a hard time retrieving images from Flickr. I want to update my webimages with pictures from Explore Flickr. This is the main url: http://www.flickr.com/explore/ but the picture itself is taken from another url: <img src="http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg" Can webimages handle this type of format? What values should be in: Primary URL: ? Prefix String: ? Start String: ? End String: ? Suffix String: ? thanks in advance! This comment applies to version 2.9 |
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leor - September 27, 2006
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Great piece of Widget. But I am having a hard time retrieving images from Flickr. I want to update my webimages with pictures from Explore Flickr. This is the main url: http://www.flickr.com/explore/ but the picture itself is taken from another url: <img src="http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg" Can webimages handle this type of format? What values should be in: Primary URL: ? Prefix String: ? Start String: ? End String: ? Suffix String: ? thanks in advance! This comment applies to version 2.9 |
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leor - September 27, 2006
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Great piece of Widget. But I am having a hard time retrieving images from Flickr. I want to update my webimages with pictures from Explore Flickr. This is the main url: http://www.flickr.com/explore/ but the picture itself is taken from another url: <img src="http://static.flickr.com/89/253499579_48cb2d6eca.jpg" Can webimages handle this type of format? What values should be in: Primary URL: ? Prefix String: ? Start String: ? End String: ? Suffix String: ? thanks in advance! This comment applies to version 2.9 |
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Ross - September 22, 2006
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Okay. Ta Anyway! :o)
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HHoltman - September 8, 2006
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Harry Whitfield, thank you!
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Harry Whitfield - September 8, 2006
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Ross: I don't think it is possible to view this type of camera in any YWE widget.
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Harry Whitfield - September 8, 2006
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HHoltman: This works for me. Description:F & K Primary URL:http://www.foksuk.nl/ Guard String: Prefix String:<TD><IMG src=" Start String:imggif.php?i=/upload/ End String:.gif Suffix String:" In particular, note the forward slash at the end of the Primary URL. This comment applies to version 2.9 |
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HHoltman - September 7, 2006
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How would one configure WebImages for the daily picture:
http://www.foksuk.nl/imggif.php?i=/upload/d1247.gif.
I have read the manual but I encounter problems all the time.
Please, does anyone know?
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Ross - September 7, 2006
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Hiya, how would one configure webimages to be able to display images from Panasonic network cameras such as this one?: http://eilandonan.selfip.com:2220/CgiStart?page=Single&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Standard&RPeriod=0&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=0
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Aaron - August 21, 2006
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I love the widget. I have noticed an unusual bug, I hope this is the correct place to post such a finding. First I set up the widget to grab the Picture of the day at worth1000.com This was uneventful and works great. I then attempted to set up the Picture of the day at Freakingnews.com I mention both of these websites because they are essentially identical in their coding to retrieve images. I could not configure FreakingNews. I then started some trials by grabbing text from the FreakingNews webpage. It is as though the widget can't buffer enough code to get to the picture. In text mode, if I enter a unique start string, such as: IFRAME and an appropriate suffix string, WebImages displays the appropriate html text. If I try a start string further down the page, I receive the following error: Could not find secondary URL or requested data in http://www.freakingnews.com/potd.asp
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Harry Whitfield - August 15, 2006
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Rob: The current version of WebImages can cycle through those sites with real images (ignoring streams). Set the Cycle Images checkbox in the General preferences. To make a selection, spawn a new copy and modify that.
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Rob - August 15, 2006
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Works great for me - can get in to my Renderosity account fine. :)
Another suggestion: slideshow - cycle through a number of sites
Some sites update only once per day, and it would be nice to cycle through a few of them.
(Stupid spammers)
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Ross - August 9, 2006
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Fantastic widget!
Maybe something to add for a future version?: the ability to set widget sizes for specific locations, so that when you change location, the widget remembers and changes size to the size you set.
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Harry Whitfield - July 28, 2006
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Rob: http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Beta/WebImages289.zip is an untested trial version for you to play with. It uses a Netscape cookie file with the -b CURL option. Let me know if it does anything useful. It appears that Safari does not use the Netscape format - the cookie file is in an xml format.
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Rob - July 27, 2006
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Harry: I just found/checked out the curl docs under the YWE installation - and there's a big section on cookies in the MANUAL. It looks like -b will take a cookie file name (Netscape format cookie file). I would hope it's the same curl on the Mac.
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Rob - July 27, 2006
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The curl docs I have show the -b/--cookie takes a parameter of either
name=string - so you can set your own cookies (probably acceptable solution)
or
filename - I set it to my firefox cookie file and when I ran curl on the command-line it successfully pulled the website text from the site that needed cookies (for login).
Does the Mac version support the parameter for the --cookie parameter?
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Harry Whitfield - July 26, 2006
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Rob: Curl on the Mac does have the -b option, but there does not appear to be a way to read cookies set by other applications.
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Rob - July 26, 2006
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Oops - sorry, I got confused with another app. It's the "-b" or "--cookie" flag in CURL I was thinking of (and the -L or --location) that would be useful. Does the Mac version of curl have those?
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Harry Whitfield - July 25, 2006
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Rob: There does not appear to be such a -y parameter on the Macintosh - indeed, there is no mention of global cookies at all.
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Rob - July 24, 2006
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Hi Harry,
Well, the one site I was trying to get images from needed a login, and Web Images wouldn't get it and neither would curl when run on the command-line - but when curl with the (I think) -y parameter to tell it to use existing local cookies, it did get the image. So I figured if there was a checkbox in Web Images that, when checked and the method was 'curl' it would pass that same parameter. So users would have to have their login's stored in cookies, but for those that did, it would let them use Web Images for those sites.
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Harry Whitfield - July 22, 2006
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Peter: Have you tried the asp script url as primary?
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Harry Whitfield - July 22, 2006
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Rob: There's not much hope of having a login as each site uses a different method.
Cookies are now dealt with by each widget - there's no access to cookies set by other widgets or applications.
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Peter - July 17, 2006
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Your widget is excellent, however I am having difficulty getting it to see my content. I have a software running on my server called "Absolute Content Rotator" I created a page that displays a daily scheduled image, but I can't get the widget to read it. The page simply refers to an .asp script, so there is no image source value. Can I use your widget with this software? Thanks in advance,
http://interactivemedia.alexianbrothers.net/content/milwaukeeroom.html
Peter Iverson
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Peter - July 17, 2006
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Your widget is excellent, however I am having difficulty getting it to see my content. I have a software running on my server called "Absolute Content Rotator" I created a page that displays a daily scheduled image, but I can't get the widget to read it. The page simply refers to an .asp script, so there is no image source value. Can I use your widget with this software? Thanks in advance,
http://interactivemedia.alexianbrothers.net/content/milwaukeeroom.html
Peter Iverson
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Rob - July 13, 2006
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Hello Harry - great widget! Having fun figuring out the right combination of preferences to get all sorts of web images. Works really well - except if I need to log in to a site. Like Renderosity for example - I'd love to be able to have the latest new images get shown periodically with Web Images but the site requires I be logged in to my account.
Is there a way username/password/etc. could be gathered and passed to the site?
(Or a way to set parameters to curl to use cookies?)
Thanks for a great widget!
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Harry Whitfield - June 8, 2006
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orb9220: You'll have your wish in version 2.8.8 - it missed 2.8.7. Version 2.8.8 will be out in the next week or so.
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orb9220 - June 6, 2006
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Ok since you told me about this widget from our Imageview discussion.
It Works great but, could you do the hide controls on startup like you did on the imageview.
Once again you guys astound me. Thanks for making my time in front of the computer a more enjoyable experience.
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Wayne - May 26, 2006
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Harry -
A followup to my previous comment. I have been using this constantly for about 4 days, and you have built the magic in. Excellent. Thank you very much.
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ck - May 25, 2006
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OK, I got it working. Didnt need the sleep afterall, just needed to change my url a bit. Thanks for writing this nice widget. Thanks for your help.
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ck - May 25, 2006
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OK, I got it working. Didnt need the sleep afterall, just needed to change my url a bit. Thanks for writing this nice widget. Thanks for your help.
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ck - May 25, 2006
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Can you think of an easy way to add a configurable setting that would allow a delay between the access to the primary url and grabbing the image it greps from the html? I have a web cam (on a php page) that grabs a snapshot once the page is accessed. It takes a second or two for the image to be saved to disk. I am finding that this widget works a lot of the time, but it sometimes reports that the .jpg url that it got from the initial web page source is not present. I was trying to add a sleep to the getSecondary() function, but a sleep in Java does not seem to be easy to do. thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - May 25, 2006
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ck: You could add a delay in your server (script) so that you only return the primary web page to the widget after you are sure that the jpg had been written to disk.
You should be able to add a sleep(milliseconds) call in the widget's javascript code, in much the way you have tried. To make it variable in length, you would need a preference.
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ck - May 24, 2006
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Can you think of an easy way to add a configurable setting that would allow a delay between the access to the primary url and grabbing the image it greps from the html? I have a web cam (on a php page) that grabs a snapshot once the page is accessed. It takes a second or two for the image to be saved to disk. I am finding that this widget works a lot of the time, but it sometimes reports that the .jpg url that it got from the initial web page source is not present. I was trying to add a sleep to the getSecondary() function, but a sleep in Java does not seem to be easy to do. thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - May 22, 2006
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Matsusaka: Sorry, but it's not possible as the YWE cannot handle java applets.
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Matsusaka - May 22, 2006
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Rick and Harry,
I've been using this widget and it is one of my favorites. However there is one webcam that I am wondering if it will work or not. The web cam is java based and allows users to control the direction of the webcam for about 30 seconds.
http://www.canon.com/wvw/webcam/sites/kandariver/index.html
How would I get this one to work with your widget?
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Wayne - May 21, 2006
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Wow, I have been looking for something like this for years. Really...since 2002. Works great.
A question though. The web images in which I am interested are only updated during set times during the day. Anyway to have a start and stop time that can be individualized for every day of the week? Just thought I'd ask.
This is so good...so good...
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Harry Whitfield - May 9, 2006
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William: WebImages has a special start-up mode (see manual) which allows you to delete URLs which cause problems - you don't need to hack the Windows Registry. On occasions when you can't use the widget's logging to file option, you could start the widget in YWE's debug mode. The widget's own logfile and/or the debug log are very helpful in tracing errors.
The widget should not crash when you use an invalid URL - I'll try to find an explanation for that and fix it.
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William - May 8, 2006
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Here's one for you. I loaded up Yahoo Widgets today and your widget crashed. It gave me 'Unable to load program...". Now, it has been running OK sence the last update, so what's up? This paticular widget was showing images from deviantART. After comparing the entry in the registry for this widget against the addresses at deviantART I noticed that deviantART had changed its image server for browsing wallpaper images. It added a 'wp' to the front of the URL. Updated the registry entry and all is OK.
You need some type of mechanism that would allow your program to continue to work when it runs into an invalid URL, rather than just crashing.
William
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Brent - May 5, 2006
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Harry, I posted some data in the widget forum. If you need more log data, let me know.
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Harry Whitfield - May 4, 2006
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Brent: Try running with logging to disk and/or in debug mode to see if the log shows anything useful. To set debug mode, control+shift-click the YWE system tray item and set the debug menu item on before you start the widget. Logging to disk can be set in WebImages' preferences.
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Brent - May 3, 2006
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I'm using Web Images 2.8.3 with Widget Engine 3.1.2(100) Windows XP SP2
I have a single link to the following image:
http://www.weblinks247.com/exrate/exr24_ca_en_2.gif
which I refresh every 5 minutes (topmost window), to watch the exchange rate while I work. It will run for 30 minutes or up to 3 to 4 hours, then it locks up (can't move the window, can't access controls, can't close) and uses lots of CPU. I have to end task with Windows Task Manager
Only other widget running is PostIt. Any idea's? PostIt continues to run OK when this happens..
Other than this, excellent widget!
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Harry Whitfield - April 21, 2006
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Fraser white: There are several examples in the comments (below). Perhaps you could try some of them?
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Fraser white - April 21, 2006
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I am not undersanding how you put new places to view on. Its very confusing, could you maby put some places on already on your next realese or help me put some on. By the way i have read the manual but its very confusing. Thanks
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Harry Whitfield - April 20, 2006
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dkline00: WebImages does not have such a facility at present. I'll keep your suggestion in mind, should I ever make another update.
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dkline00 - April 20, 2006
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Would it be possible to hind the window? I was using a widget called Eye Candy for years. It had the ability to shink down to a small bar on my desktop and when I wanted to see it all I had to do was click on it and there was the image. Is this possible for this widget?
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Harry Whitfield - April 20, 2006
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CDB:You can't display the composite map image with WebImages. The initial page does not have links to the eleven camera images - the links are to eleven web pages - so you can't pick up the image links from the initial page. However, the page and image links look fairly static, so you might be able to use the image links directly as primary URLs.
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CDB - April 19, 2006
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Sounds like just what I've been looking for but I've tried everything I can think of and still can't get it to work. Any advice on the correct strings would be appreciated!
Here's the primary URL
http://pws.indot.org/pws/nw
There are 11 images.
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Harry Whitfield - April 19, 2006
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Pending a fix for YWE 3.1(.1), there is simple fix for Mac OS X users. WebImages is distributed as a cross-platform zipped widget. If you change its extension to "zip" then unzip it, you will have a Macintosh packaged widget. This does not suffer from the bug in YWE 3.1(.1).
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alhntool - April 18, 2006
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Thanks Harry
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alhntool - April 18, 2006
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Thanks Harry
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Harry Whitfield - April 18, 2006
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On Mac OS X, YWE stores preferences in a Library folder. On Windows, they are stored in the Windows Registry, which I have always regarded as a bad design choice. The obvious other place to store preferences would be in the widget's data folder. Unfortunately, we currently have a situation on the Macintosh version of YWE (3.1, 3.1.1) where the data folder is being overwritten whenever a widget starts. No doubt, this will be fixed in short order, but it does show that there is nowhere that is entirely safe. The preference saving facility in WebImages allows you to make your own backups and put the files somewhere "safer". I'll think about making it more automatic. [The current bug in YWE also deletes spawned widgets, but not their stored prefernces.]
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Dan - April 17, 2006
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I RTFM. I see where I can export these manually. I was recommending you do this automatically in your code so I don't have to remember to save my settings before a system rebuild. It's already too late for me to recover my old settings. Pls don't change a friking thing!
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H - April 17, 2006
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Dan: Please look at the tooltips and/or read the very fine manual supplied in the distribution package.
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Dan - April 17, 2006
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I take it that the personized configs are stored in the Windows registry. It would be very nice if these could be written to a file instead. I rebuild my OS every 3 - 6 months and retrieving config files from backup is very easy. Retreiving configs from the old registry isn't possible, (as far as I know)...
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webtrekker - April 14, 2006
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Thanks Harry. I am now banging my head on the wall for 10 minutes! *OUCH!*
ALWAYS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!
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Harry Whitfield - April 13, 2006
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webtrekker: The widget has a facility to delete bad URLs on startup. It also has the ability to save the URLs to and restore them from files. The button tooltips also give brief hints on how to save URLs to and restore URLs from files. Please read the instructions which are in the pdf file in the distribution package.
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webtrekker - April 13, 2006
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Excellent Widget. Only problem I am finding is that, if there are any problems and I have to re-start the widget, then I lose all the data in the Quick list. Is this data (ie. webcam URL's etc.) stored in a list for retrieval or do I have to keep my own list and manually re-enter all the cams once the widget is up and running again?
I should add that I have not updated yet to version 2.8, but I am running the previous version with version 3.1 of the engine.
Keep up the good work!
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DC - April 7, 2006
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Great widget, this is so handy. Thanks.
Have charts of all important economic data rotating on my desktop right now :-)
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Harry Whitfield - April 7, 2006
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Binary: That's not a quirk/bug -it's a feature! It is a property of the way that sorting text is done. Filenames are treated as text. Digits are not treated any differently from letters. If you want to avoid it, you have to call your images image001, image002, etc.
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Binary - April 7, 2006
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This widget is great - I was looking at hacking up a widget to do a few of these things - then stumbled on your offering, and it fits my needs perfectly! Only one quirk, when rotating through images (for exampled) Image 1-Image9, if you add Image 10 it puts it between 1 and 2.
There are work arounds that are easy enough... but just thought I'd mention the one quirk. Even with this quirk, I'd give you a fifth star if I could - great work!
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Binary - April 7, 2006
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This widget is great - I was looking at hacking up a widget to do a few of these things - then stumbled on your offering, and it fits my needs perfectly! Only one quirk, when rotating through images (for exampled) Image 1-Image9, if you add Image 10 it puts it between 1 and 2.
There are work arounds that are easy enough... but just thought I'd mention the one quirk. Even with this quirk, I'd give you a fifth star if I could - great work!
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Harry Whitfield - April 1, 2006
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Gearry: Version 2.8 has a background as you have requested. It should appear shortly.
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Gearry - March 31, 2006
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This widget is very useful. In does nearly everything I need in a widget. However, I would like to reiterate the request below for the ability to fill in a background color if possible. I have some images with transparency that I would like to be able to put on a white background.
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Gearry - March 31, 2006
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This widget is very useful. In does nearly everything I need in a widget. However, I would like to reiterate the request below for the ability to fill in a background color if possible. I have some images with transparency that I would like to be able to put on a white background.
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Harry Whitfield - March 16, 2006
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William: If you would send me the disk log and debug log, I would be happy to investigate the spawning problem. I assume that not everyone is having the problem.
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William - March 15, 2006
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Harry: Thank you. It is obvious that the interaction between widgets and the Yahoo! widget engine have effects unknown to the developers of the widgets. FOR INSTANCE: Your spawn feature still does not work on Windows XP sr2, either the 'Web Images' or the "ImageView" widgets. A 'file not found' error is reported every time I have tried this feature, (I just downloaded the newest update today to ImageView, - same problem). I just go and manually copy the widget adding a 2 or 3 at the end of the name and go from their. (I posted this problem previously). It's an engine problem. Hay - I enjoy your work, keep it going! Bill
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Harry Whitfield - March 15, 2006
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William: WebImages does not explicitly store the fetched html page to disk at all, and it stores the current image in the system.widgetDataFolder, as previously described. Any other copies you are seeing elsewhere on your system are being put there by the internal operations of the Widget Engine, over which I have no control (and no knowledge). I don't use Windows, and the behavior on MacOS is not necessarily the same. The Widget Engine may well have its own image cache or use standard Windows facilities.
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Serge - March 15, 2006
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Harry : Ok Thank you .
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William - March 14, 2006
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Harry: You are correct, the ...WebImages-XXX is the actual image on the screen. I watched it change as you discribed. HOWEVER their are also multiple images being placed in the 'Temporary Internet Files' directory as I have described. I also find the html file used to pull the image data off of as well. Where your directory has the name of WebImages-XXX, the directory I am speaking of has the actual NAME OF THE FILE FROM THE WEB SITE. As well as the Internet location it was pulled from, and the html file, and the URL of that html file. You are looking in the wrong directory for what I am talking about. Do you have a Windows system so you can check into what I am describing? Where do you park the html file you are pulling the data off of for URL image fetching? This problem was fixed Saturday, it's all academic now. Bill
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Harry Whitfield - March 14, 2006
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Serge: Just enter the URL - not the enclosing < and >.
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Serge - March 14, 2006
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Harry: Can you give yourself parametres for the webcam of the Eiffel Tower.
If I write the primary URL: < http: // www.images-abcparislive.com / eiffel2.jpg >.
It is not good
Thank you for your help
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Harry Whitfield - March 14, 2006
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William: In your case, C:/Documents and Settings/User/Local Settings/Application Data/Yahoo/Widget Engine/WidgetData/WebImages is the system.widgetDataFolder and WebImages-608 was an image file downloaded by WebImages. 608 is a sequence number which clocks up as each image is fetched and the previous image is deleted.
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William - March 13, 2006
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I checked the 'Log Error Messages to File" box to start loggins errors. I opened it up and it contains the directory "C:<slash> Documents and Settings<slash> User<slash> Local Settings<slash> Application Data<slash> Yahoo<slash> Widget Engine<slash> Widget Data<slash> WebImages<slash> WebImages-608... and a bunch of data used for running the widget, but no images being displayed. Their are no images being stored in these directores. I waited and watched two new images being posted in your program, nothing in these directories changes. They did in the directory listed below. Hay, this thing works OK now, so, unless you are just curious and want to know more, thank you for your help. Bill
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Harry Whitfield - March 13, 2006
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William: If you use the log to file option and look at the log file, you will see where WebImages stores images.
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William - March 13, 2006
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Harry: I did a search on my computer for "widgetDataFolder". Did not find any such folder on my computer. Did I mention that this is a Windows XP sr2 system? From what you said, I believe it was a widget engine problem that Yahoo did fix. Thanks for all you interest. Bill BTW - nice widget, I am enjoying it very much.
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William - March 13, 2006
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Harry: FYI : All Yahoo! widgets use the 'C:<slash>Documents and Settings<slash> User<slash> Local Settings<slash> Temporary Internet Files' directory to hold their temp information. My dir has the information from the ticker tape, multi-RSS news feed, weather info, Comix info, WhatsOnTV catche, and two instances of your Web Images. One running Photo.net and one deviantART.com. Currently 50-60 objects changing on the fly. I suspect that if you didn't fix this problem, then Yahoo's programers did. I was e-mailing them before I posted my first notice to you about this problem. It could have been a widget engine problem for all I know. Bill
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Harry Whitfield - March 13, 2006
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William: WebImages saves downloaded images in the system.widgetDataFolder. Every time is successfully downloads a new image, it deletes the old image. If you are seeing images in some other temporary folder, that must be being done by the Widget Engine itself and not explicitly by the action of the code in the widget. I've changed nothing since the widget was last updated on 23 February.
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William - March 13, 2006
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Harry: I have been tracking this temp dir every few hours over the weekend.(In a way its fun to see all the images saved - have to move them out of the dir to see, Windows will not open the image files from the temp internet dir though.) Sometime around 2:00 on Saturday 3/11 everything changed. Not only did the piled-up catched images disapear, but your widget now saves between 2 to 6 images dynamically. I can watch it, as each new image is catched, the oldest one of 2 to 6 is removed. Really neat - NICE FIX - whoever did it. My hat is off to you. Bill (I understand writing cross-platform widgets can be problematic)
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Harry Whitfield - March 13, 2006
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Serge: For the two URLs you mention, all you need to do is set the Primary URLs. You don't need to set the other strings.
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Serge - March 13, 2006
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Windows XP Hello, You can tell me how to configure WebImages to have Webcam of the Eiffel Tower. Primary URL:http://www.images-abcparislive.com/eiffel2.jpg Guard String: ? Prefix String: ? Start String: ? End String: ? Suffix String: ? And Webcam de Cabourg: Primary URL:http://193.251.7.103:83/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi Guard String: ? Prefix String: ? Start String: ? End String: ? Suffix String: ? Thank you for your help
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Harry Whitfield - March 11, 2006
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William: WebImages tries to delete each old cached file every time it successfully fetches a new image file, so you should not get a build-up of cached files. I do not see the behavior you have reported on the Macintosh. Is it possible that you have some system function that is stopping WebImages from deleting files?
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William - March 10, 2006
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For what its worth, I have been thinking about this. If you could assign the name of the catched image file for each 'Quick List' entry, such as QL1.jpg, QL2.jpg.... that would take care of this mess for one instance of your widget. You would have to modify the name for each spawned widget.. Hope this helps. (Not an easy fix however you look at it.)
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William - March 9, 2006
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Why this program tripled my post I do not understand. All that I did was hit the refresh button on the browser twice.
Sorry for the repost everyone.
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William - March 9, 2006
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I was cleaning out my Temporary Internet Files directory yesterday. Noticed that your program uses this directory to catch the images being displayed. Unfortunately your program does not delete them after it moves onto the next image, or at the end of the day, or some other interval or size limit --SO-- the directory fills up. Rather quickly, sence we are talking about images, each anywhere from 2k to 2m in size. A new image from 'Photo Gallery' every minute, for 12 to 14 hours each day. Any idea how much disk space that is? Care to multiply that over a two week period? Fortunately I caught this yesterday and cleaned out the directory. Can you do anything to fix this? (I tried setting the save to directory option - it just gave me two directories filling up.) Meanwhile, I am cleaning out the Temporary Internet Files directory manually. Help! William
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William - March 9, 2006
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I was cleaning out my Temporary Internet Files directory yesterday. Noticed that your program uses this directory to catch the images being displayed. Unfortunately your program does not delete them after it moves onto the next image, or at the end of the day, or some other interval or size limit --SO-- the directory fills up. Rather quickly, sence we are talking about images, each anywhere from 2k to 2m in size. A new image from 'Photo Gallery' every minute, for 12 to 14 hours each day. Any idea how much disk space that is? Care to multiply that over a two week period? Fortunately I caught this yesterday and cleaned out the directory. Can you do anything to fix this? (I tried setting the save to directory option - it just gave me two directories filling up.) Meanwhile, I am cleaning out the Temporary Internet Files directory manually. Help! William
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William - March 9, 2006
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I was cleaning out my Temporary Internet Files directory yesterday. Noticed that your program uses this directory to catch the images being displayed. Unfortunately your program does not delete them after it moves onto the next image, or at the end of the day, or some other interval or size limit --SO-- the directory fills up. Rather quickly, sence we are talking about images, each anywhere from 2k to 2m in size. A new image from 'Photo Gallery' every minute, for 12 to 14 hours each day. Any idea how much disk space that is? Care to multiply that over a two week period? Fortunately I caught this yesterday and cleaned out the directory. Can you do anything to fix this? (I tried setting the save to directory option - it just gave me two directories filling up.) Meanwhile, I am cleaning out the Temporary Internet Files directory manually. Help! William
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Serge - March 8, 2006
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Windows XP
Hello,
You can tell me how to configure WebImages to have Webcam of the Eiffel Tower.
Primary URL:http://www.images-abcparislive.com/eiffel2.jpg
Guard String: ?
Prefix String: ?
Start String: ?
End String: ?
Suffix String: ?
And Webcam de Cabourg:
Primary URL:http://193.251.7.103:83/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi
Guard String: ?
Prefix String: ?
Start String: ?
End String: ?
Suffix String: ?
Thank you for your help
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Serge - March 8, 2006
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Hello,
You can tell me how to configure WebImages to have Webcam of the Eiffel Tower.
http://www.images-abcparislive.com/eiffel2.jpg
And Webcam de Cabourg:
http://193.251.7.103:83/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi
Thank you for your help
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Darrell - March 2, 2006
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Harry, I love the idea of this widget. However I am at a point of frustration. I am runing 2.7.7 of the widget on a Windows XP machine. I can't figure out how to get ASX stuff to work. I have been throught the forums and that was no help either. Its not launching my WMP. In addition, the Quick List button does not work anymore for me. It used to work for me in previous versions. Can you or someone else please offer some help. Thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - March 1, 2006
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Daniel: Not that I know of.
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Daniel - February 28, 2006
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Harry: I think you missed the point. The CPU is used even when the widget is not visible. Is there no way to put the widget to sleep when it's hidden?
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Daniel - February 28, 2006
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Harry: I think you missed the point. The CPU is used even when the widget is not visible. Is there no way to put the widget to sleep when it's hidden?
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Benny - February 28, 2006
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The only webcam widget you need, why there are so many customised webcam widgets out there is beyond me.
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Harry Whitfield - February 24, 2006
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Jeff M: I guess you've already found the section of the manual entitled Special Startup Mode. On the Macintosh, it's also fairly easy to delete (or edit) the preference file (details in the manual). On Windows, you could hack the registry, but I can't recommend that.
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Jeff M - February 24, 2006
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Sorry. Should have read the manual first.
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Jeff M - February 24, 2006
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Great Idea. This is like have windows to the world. I have added a new link that is causing the widget to hang. It won't let me edit anything, just says loading image forever. Is there any way to manually edit the configuration before I launch the widget so it won't hang?
Thanks.
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Harry Whitfield - February 24, 2006
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Daniel: The cpu power used by the widget when displaying animated gifs is entirely under the control of the widget engine, not of the widget. If it worries you, I'm afraid the answer is not to display them.
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Daniel - February 23, 2006
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I like this widget a lot but I notice that it uses a lot of CPU power (while displaying animated gifs) even when hidden.
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Harry Whitfield - February 22, 2006
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What you are suggesting is within the capability of the Widget Engine, but not within the current capability of this widget. You could use the spawning feature to make four widgets and assemble the four images side by side, with or without their frames. I'll think about making a mouse-over magnify feature similar to the one in ImageView.
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Braddock - February 22, 2006
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Is there a way to display 4 simultaneous images within the same window, and then have the widget focus in on a specific image when mousing over? That way one could look at 4 images at the same time while looking at one 320x240 or 400x300 window for example. Would that feature be within the possibilities of the current Yahoo Widgets engine?
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Harry Whitfield - February 19, 2006
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JoeTheLion: No - it's not possible. If it were, I would have done it that way.
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JoeTheLion - February 19, 2006
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I just love this!!
But I have a question: Is it possible for streaming to open in the widget, instead of Windows Mediaplayer?
I have several webcams in the list, and then I have this one: http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/asx/tsq_stream.asx (with sound too)but when I choose this it opens in Windows Mediaplayer. I would love to have this one in a small widgetwindow(like the others)instead of Mediaplayer all over my desktop! Is it possible?
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William - February 16, 2006
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This feedback form is droping the back-slashes. I put them in their, really I did. Scouts honor.
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William - February 16, 2006
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Woops, let me try that again: C:DOCUME~1BillLOCALS~1Temp\_is179Yahoo! Widget Engine,msi - does not exhist on my system. System - Asus K8V SE Deluxe, AMD 3200+, 1g ram, ATI850 driving 2 Samsung 914V's, 250g HD, AverMedia TV, WiFi, Win XPsr2, way-way too much stuff on this system - the way I like it.
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William - February 16, 2006
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Harry, I just went to the directory and copied the file manually and went on from their. Added a 2,3,4,5 as your readme file said the spawn would do. All fixed, old problem, done, end, stop, finished, next. Thank you for the quick feedback. I do believe the 'new' Yahoo! widget program removes the 'msi' file after installation, which your spawn looks for. The error message kept asking for the location of the ...msi file, after not finding it in the C:DOCUME~1userLOCALS~1TEMP\_is179Yahoo! Widget Engine.msi which does not exhist. No such directory. Hope this helps.
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Harry Whitfield - February 16, 2006
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ViperDragon: The short answer in no. It's either 25 entries or the same entry repeatedly, if you can arrange that at the server end.
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ViperDragon - February 16, 2006
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Nice widget guys! I had one question: I have a webcam at home that sends 25 images to my website via FTP (webcam00.jpg, webcam01.jpg and so on). I would like to cycle thru all of the using the widget but don't want to create 25 separate entries. Is there a way to use the primary URL address and just cycle thru webcam00.jpg, webcam01.jpg, etc.? Thanks!
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Harry Whitfield - February 16, 2006
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William: We've tested on another Windows system and we are not seeing your spawning problem. WebImages starts spawns by opening the spawn using Y!WE as the application. It looks as if Y!WE is being confused with something else on your system. It may help if you run WebImages with logging to file switched on, and also run it in debug mode. Send me the log and debug files by email.
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Harry Whitfield - February 16, 2006
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William; Spawning is still working correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Y!WE 3.0.2. I can't check it out on Windows myself, so I've asked Ricky to take a look. I've had no other reports of this, so it may be peculiar to a small number of systems.
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William - February 16, 2006
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I cannot get the spawn to work. It keeps asking for "Yahoo! Widget Engine.msi" which is not on my computer. I believe this is the installer downloaded by "widgetsus.exe" when installing the widget engine, and is removed after completion of installation. Perhaps this is new with v3.02? Anyway, your spawn does not work.
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Joel Simpson - February 14, 2006
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Absolutely Rocks! Any chance you could add a background and background color preference option? I'm using a temperature monitoring daemon that generates graphs with a transparent background. My red desktop eliminates the red temperature line and text. ;)
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Harry Whitfield - February 12, 2006
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You get exactly what you ask for. Set no sizes, you get the natural image size and shape, unless it needs to be scaled to fit the screen. Set one size, and you'll get that, unless it would be too big. Set both sizes, and you get exactly that, distortion and all. Set one or two maximum sizes and they are enforced. Play around a bit, and you will be able to get what you want. You will only get a distorted image if you set both horizontal and vertical sizes, or you ask for a fixed aspect ratio.
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Junior - February 12, 2006
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Great Widget!!! Nice work people. Not sure if it's your intent, but I noticed that when I enter both image width and height with same values my pictures are distorted. It’s impossible to predict the next image proportion being displayed on my WebImage. Would like to know if there is an easier way to proportionally control the image size for display on my monitor? Still an excellent widget.
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paco - February 9, 2006
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I have been searching for a widget that will display images with a URL that changes over time. This widget does it! Thanks!
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pilotin - February 7, 2006
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Dreams come true.
PERFECT !
Thank You Harry :)
***** The first widget with 5 stars !
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Harry Whitfield - February 6, 2006
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pilotin: Currently the widget limits the size of the image so that it fits in the available screen size. That varies depending on whether the Dock is visible or not. I've altered the behavior of the widget so that the maximum size of image now fits the available screen pretty well exactly, when the frame is turned off. I've also added an option so that you can set the maximum size of image up to twice the available screen size.
If you would like to test the new version, please email me at the address in the about box.
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pilotin - February 5, 2006
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oops... sorry for double-post ;)
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pilotin - February 5, 2006
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Harry,
Thanks once again for this great update :)
Actualy the maximum image height seems to be something 851 pix (Mac OS version)
Would you think, please (my comment of 23rd aug. '05) to have in the preference panel "geometry " a key to adapt directly the to the screen resolution (the idea is to get an image to fit the screen as a desktop image... (actually, this is impossible to get images like 1440 * 900 or larger) ?
Then, it would be perfect :)
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pilotin - February 5, 2006
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Harry,
Thanks once again for this great update :)
Actualy the maximum image height seems to be something 851 pix (Mac OS version)
Would you think, please (my comment of 23rd aug. '05) to have in the preference panel "geometry " a key to adapt directly the to the screen resolution (the idea is to get an image to fit the screen as a desktop image... (actually, this is impossible to get images like 1440 * 900 or larger) ?
Then, it would be perfect :)
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kage - February 4, 2006
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Updates are going great.
Still one of the best.
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Harry Whitfield - February 3, 2006
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Al: It shows up if you turn logging to file on - so don't!
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Al - February 3, 2006
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Harry, I'm on Windows XP and it works perfectly for me. Are you sure there's a bug?
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Harry Whitfield - February 3, 2006
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TS: Thanks - it has already been reported and a fix has been uploaded for approval. In the meantime, just use the previous version, if you have it.
Keeping one or two previous versions is always a good idea, in case a bug slips in when new features are added.
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TS - February 3, 2006
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There is also a problem with this feedback module; as I only entered the previous comment once...
;)
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TS - February 3, 2006
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There is also a problem with this feedback module; as I only entered the previous comment once...
;)
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TS - February 3, 2006
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This doesn't seem to work with windows xp. There is a "unable to load" error.
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TS - February 3, 2006
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This doesn't seem to work with windows xp. There is a "unable to load" error.
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Al - February 2, 2006
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Thanks Harry! Works great. You are the best!!!
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Harry Whitfield - February 1, 2006
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Al: Maybe, I could put the QuickList on top of the image in the other cases. I'll think about it.
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Al - January 31, 2006
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Harry: Thanks for the explanation even thought it wasn’t good news for me as I anchor my widget Top Right – just my luck I guess. You do great work regardless.
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Harry Whitfield - January 31, 2006
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To be more specific, the QuickList is only available when the anchor point is "None" or either of the "Top Left" options. The other anchor point options "Bottom" and "Right" do not co-exist well with the QuickList.
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Harry Whitfield - January 31, 2006
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Al: It's not a bug - I hope. I turn the QuickList off in some cases when certain anchor points are selected.
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Al - January 30, 2006
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Thanks for adding the play/pause and forward features - great widget. There might be a bug with this version thought, I seem to have lost the use of Quick List, not sure why.
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Bill B - January 24, 2006
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TERRIFIC ****
Can be seen in action here:
http://homepage.mac.com/billdb/DeskTop/PhotoAlbum12.html
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Harry Whitfield - January 23, 2006
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That's a bug that I introduced in the last update - it does not respond to the forward button or the time update if there is only one image in the cycle.
As a temporary fix, enter your URL twice (with different descriptions) and set the cycle images checkbox on. The forward button and time update should then work normally. You can also use the quicklist menu.
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Andy - January 22, 2006
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After I updated to newest version th widget is no longer updating. I have tried many things includiung restarting computer and widget, as well as trying different pictures. The widget will load with the current web picture, but then will not update. Help!
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Al - January 7, 2006
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Hey guys,
Great widget!! Any chance on adding play/pause and forward controls for the slide show on your next update as you have done with the ImageView widget? Thanks for your hard work.
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kage - November 26, 2005
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-- 2.6.5
Great update!
:)
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Harry Whitfield - November 21, 2005
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Sorry - you're out of luck on two counts. WebImages can't display Java Applets and it has no way to control a camera.
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JC - November 21, 2005
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I've been looking for a widget like this for a while...thanks! One thing though...am I able to add a webcam that allows users to control it? This is the one I'd like to add:
http://www.thecanyons.com/otm/livewebcams.aspx#
Thanks!
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harry Whitfield - November 20, 2005
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kage: Version 2.6.5 has the fedatures you requested.
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kage - November 17, 2005
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Hey Harry,
Thanks for the reply, I didn't even think about turning the list off.
Anyway, great widget, hope to see more...
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pilotin - November 15, 2005
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[about 2.6.5]
Great update (refresh & size) Thank you :)
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Harry Whitfield - November 15, 2005
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kage: There is a long standing "feature" that no-one has ever mentioned. If the QuickList is showing, the window height is restricted to about 700 pixels.
I'll fix that the next time I make an update. For now, you could turn the QuickList off.
You can't currently alter the maximum length of the QuickList which is arbitrarily set to 34. You can force entries to the top of the list by prefixing the name with a period. I'll think about an option to allow you to set the maximum length.
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kage - November 15, 2005
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I am not sure if it has been asked, but is there a way to make the Max Height larger?
What I mean is...
My screen resolution height is 864, some of the images I load are quite big, but I can't seem to get them larger than 680 Max height. The bottom of the Widget gets cut off when I set the widget's Max Height above 680.
Another Question- When I click the Quick List button it shows 34 Images that I am watching, is there a way to set a Max of how many items are shown in the quick list?.. Ya, I have more than 34 POTD images I watch :) Hmm, maybe setting the quick list to, say, 10 images and being able to choose which images are in the quick list?
I understand if it's a "quick list" there's only a specific amount it will show, if not changed that's no problem 'cause when I click the magnifier the drop down menu shows them all... but it would be nifty to tell it how many are in the "quick" and which ones if set to a lower number.
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- October 21, 2005
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This is a comment. There are too many comments!
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Louis - October 20, 2005
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Thanks a lot Harry.... when in Northern Italy... you'l get a free Pizza! Its a great piece now!
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Louis - October 14, 2005
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Hmmm.... give it a try... it is just an option... selectable or not. If you think put a warning "Shorter refresh times increases CPU usage". I wish you a pleasent week-end and compliments for the nice and welldone widget....
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Harry Whitfield - October 14, 2005
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A one second refresh would probably take so much of the cpu time that nothing else would work.
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Louis - October 14, 2005
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Would it be a great work to add 1 second refresh to it (as on traffic cams 5 seconds is a enormous gap)
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Harry Whitfield - October 12, 2005
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It's still working OK on the Macintosh. Please switch logging to file on, try spawning a widget, and let me have the output with your system details.
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Joey - October 12, 2005
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Great widget. Absolutely the best around. Been using this for a while. Recently ran into a problem where I cannot spawn new webimages windows. I click the button at lower right of the UI, but no window spawns. I've thrown away prefs, etc., but no fixes. Ideas?
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Harry Whitfield - October 8, 2005
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In version 2.6.2, the debug window is not enabled. Please turn on logging to file and run the widget for a while. Then email me with the log file, the contents of the debug window, and details of your system.
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Z - October 8, 2005
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I also have the network problem I would LOOVE to be able to stop the debug window from popping up, any ideas? thanks
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Harry Whitfield - September 27, 2005
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Nate: In principle, it would be possible to do that, but it involves comparing the new and old images, byte by byte. I'll think about it for a future version.
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Nate - September 26, 2005
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This widget is great, but I was wondering if it was at all possible to implement a feature where the image is only saved to your desktop if it has been updated? I'm not sure how practical that is but I know it would be very useful.
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Harry Whitfield - September 18, 2005
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Meir: I'll do that for you in version 2.6.1 which should be available in a week or two.
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Meir - September 17, 2005
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Great widget, Thanks!
I'd like to request the option to automatically update the image when konspose is opened (as opposed to just at a certain time interval).
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Susan - September 13, 2005
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Working great on Mac (Panther) ... Thanks for the excellent instructions!
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Harry Whitfield - September 8, 2005
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John S.: If you would like me to try to find out what causes your problem with lost connections, you should make a full report with your system details and Konfabulator version in the appropriate forum or by email. Please include the text of the debug window.
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Harry Whitfield - September 8, 2005
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As far as I know, Konfabulator provides no way for me to test for the state of the network connection.
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John S. - September 7, 2005
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If I lose my network connection, I get the debug window (not just an alert). Very annoying.
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Harry Whitfield - September 7, 2005
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Joe: Konfabulator cannot currently display any movie streams. On the Macintosh only, WebImages invokes QuickTime Player, RealPlayer or Windows Media Player to display streams in separate windows. However, it currently has no provision for mjpg, but I might be able to allow that. Do you have sample URLs?
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Joe - September 7, 2005
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Can mjpg movie streams be shown in this widget?
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Harry Whitfield - August 31, 2005
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There is a pretty extensive set of instructions in the distribution package.
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daniel - August 31, 2005
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would it be possible to get this to work with something like deviantart.com or even the latest lj images? (http://www.fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php)
it seems like it would be fairly easy but i wouldn't have a clue where to begin.
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Harry Whitfield - August 28, 2005
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Do you really mean the debug window, or just an alert box? You can turn most alerts off in the preferences. If it was the debug window, you should make a full report with your system platform and system details, and the contents of the debug window. You can report via the appropriate Forum group.
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ZS - August 28, 2005
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Everytime an Image isnt found it brings up the debug window with an error. How can i stop it from ever bringing up the debug windows? its kinda annoying. Thanks for your great work with this widget
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Harry Whitfield - August 25, 2005
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If you see keys for WebImagesNNN, they refer to spawned widgets.
The next version of WebImages (2.6) has the ability to save preference data to file and to restore preference data from file. It should appear here shortly. If you cannot wait, there is a download link in the Forum pages.
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Johnny - August 24, 2005
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On Windows, your settings are stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePixoriaKonfabulatorWidgetsWebImages
You may see other "WebImages", like WebImages1 if you've loaded different versions..
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Tom Chacho - August 23, 2005
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Thanks for adding the Auto Save Download image feature.
This is a wonderful and useful widget.
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pilotin - August 23, 2005
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Thanks for your fast answer Harry :) I've checked the pdf and (try to) learned how to deal with "dynamic" URL, great that you thought about that :) (and sorry for the "WebImages.pdf", but as you can read, english isn't my language... ;) i've tried with that one DESCRIPTION : Bonaire underwater cam PRIMARY URL : http://www.bonairewebcams.com/BonaireReefCamLarge.php GUARD STRING : PREFIX STRING : <img src=" START STRING : /cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?c=3;s=L;t= END STRING : SUFFIX STRING : " Works greeeeeeeeat ! :) incredible widget ! This comment applies to version 2.5.9 |
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Harry Whitfield - August 23, 2005
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If you set the Primary URL to "http://www.nytimes.com/" and set up appropriate search strings, you should be able to capture the picture of the day such as "http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/08/23/nyregion/fields.184.jpg". The PDF Manual explains how to set up search strings.
Re 1) I'll think about it.
Re 2) It may be that K might have a standard option to reset all preferences. If not, I'll think about it.
Re 3)I tried that image - it does load slowly, but it takes just as long in my browser as it does in the widget.
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pilotin - August 23, 2005
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just to finish my comment cuted ;)
About webcam, would it be possible to have in a future update :
1) in the preference panel "geometry " a key to adapt directly the to the screen resolution (the idea is to get an image to fit the screen as a desktop image... (actually, this is impossible to get large images like 1440 * 900) ?
2) A reset buton to delete all adresses ?
3) Some large webcam images doesn't seem to work properly with your widget, this one doesn't appear or slows the widget very much is it possible to do something ?: http://www.banffgondola.com/cam/images/tmp/view.jpg
Anyway, Thanks of this great widget ! :)
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pilotin - August 23, 2005
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Hello Ricky and Harry :)
Discovered only today thanks to the update. Very beautiful wigget and particularly useful not only for the webcams, but also to supervise the first pages of your favorite(s) daily newspaper(s) :
Find the adresses here : http://www.newspaperlinks.com/
and on the principal page, a reproduction of the page of the day is often displayed. As for the webcams, it is enough to make a control-click on the label > and to open the image in a new window to get the URL.
The limit seems to be that on certain sites, the labels of the first pages are named specifically and the update won't work. Examples :
These one work :
http://www.liberation.fr/img/pdf/UNE.jpg
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/today.jpg
This one don't :
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/08/21/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg
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About webcam, would it be possible to have in a future update :
1) in the preference panel "geometry " a key to adapt directly the to the scree
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Harry Whitfield - August 22, 2005
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There is a PDF file with extensive instructions inside the downloaded package from which you extracted the widget.
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avram - August 22, 2005
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I am a new to this, and do not understand how to set a webcam (a 'manual' is nentioned, where is it?)
For instance, how do i set the following cam:
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/index.php?cam=10
Thanks.
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Gerry - August 21, 2005
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I was wondering if you would be able to use this widget as a base to design one with specific URL's (Not user changeable) and where you could link to specific web pages by clicking on the images.
If you would be interested in this project, please let me know.
By the way, GREAT Widget......
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Harry Whitfield - August 19, 2005
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On the Macintosh, the preferences are stored in:
~/Library/Preferences/Konfabulator/WebImages.widget.plist
~/Library/Preferences/Konfabulator/WebImagesNNN.kon.plist
You would need to copy all such files to the equivalent directory on the other machine.
On Windows, the preferences are stored in the Windows Registry - I know not where, and I don't know how to save them or restore them to the other machine.
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Harry Whitfield - August 19, 2005
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Macintosh or Windows?
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George - August 19, 2005
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Harry,
I want to move my preferences (configured cameras) from one computer to another. What is the key file to copy and paste from one computer to another one, to keep all the cameras on both computers, without the need to configure all of them again on my new computer?
George
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Brutus - August 19, 2005
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Good point. But then how do you conveniently view the images? Open the viewer first, then open the file?
FYI I changed a .gif to .jpg, and a .jpg to .gif, and i can still double-click view them just fine. The extensions tells it to open with the viewer, the viewer figures out what the file type is by the contents, not the extension, so it seems.
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Harry Whitfield - August 18, 2005
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What happens if the downloaded image file is not a JPEG?
Don't forget you have to make it work in the spawned widgets too.
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Brutus - August 18, 2005
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to append the ".jpg" I modified a command in the "function saveimage()" section. Change the line
var command = "cp " + escapePath(imageFile) + " " + escapePath(outputDir + "/" + entryName);
to
var command = "cp " + escapePath(imageFile) + " " + escapePath(outputDir + "/" + entryName + ".jpg");
and now you have ".jpg" at the end of the file name.
Again, very nice code. thanks!
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Brutus - August 18, 2005
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So I opened up your gadget in "Widget Converter" so it unzipped the javascript and the .kon file. It was pretty easy reading (nice job) so I simply added "saveImage()" into the function updateImage() as the excerpt below shows. I show this primarily for the benefit of GUS and others that want to save the images automatically. Now I just have to figure out how to append ".jpg" to the saved file name. Thanks again!
function updateImage()
{
eprint("------updateImage()------");
saveImage();
if (preferences.cyclePref.value != 0) //choose the next image
{
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brutus - August 18, 2005
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nice konfab, thanks.
Can you add a checkbox to SAVE EVERY NEW PICTURE instead of having to "alt-click" ?
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Harry Whitfield - August 18, 2005
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Chris Hart: I've just downloaded version 2.5.7 from this page and run it on Mac OS X 10.3.9 anf K 2.1.1 both as a new user and as an old user with existing prefs and I'm getting no errors. Do you get an entry in the Gear menu or any error messages? You could also try removing the pref file at ~/Library/Preferences/Konfabulator/WebImages.widget.plist. Perhaps you could report back via the appropriate forum?
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Chris Hart - August 18, 2005
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Won't open for me on K 2.1.1 Mac OS X 10.3.9?
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Harry Whitfield - August 17, 2005
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Justin: It turns out to be more complicated. I can replace commas by "%2C" in the primary URL, but that would not work in the search strings, unless I were to replace all commas in any downloaded html pages. I would then have to map it back again before the user saw any extracts.
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Harry Whitfield - August 17, 2005
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Justin: Thanks - I think you are probably correct. I was getting too worked up about the transition problem for existing users to see the obvious.
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Justin - August 17, 2005
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Harry,
Forgive me for being dense, but couldn't you replace the comma with '%2C' instead of stripping it out when the link is first entered by the user? Seems like it could be a simple fix for the next release. :)
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Harry Whitfield - August 16, 2005
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Brett: WebImages uses the comma internally to separate items in the stored preference lists, so commas are currently stripped out by the widget. As it has been like that for over a year, I cannot change the behavior immediately without upsetting the other 28898 users of the widget. It may be possible to change it over a sequence of later releases.
However, you can get what you want by replacing any commas in your URL with "%2C". So "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=BA&t=3m&q=l&l=on&z=m&c=%5ERUT%2C%5EGSPC%2C%5EIXIC%2C%5EDJI&a=v&p=s" works for me.
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Brett - August 15, 2005
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Doesn't seem to be able to handle URL's with commas such as used in stock graphs at Yahoo. Example:
"http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=BA&t=3m&q=l&l=on&z=m&c=%5ERUT,%5EGSPC,%5EIXIC,%5EDJI&a=v&p=s" is stored without the commas and thus I cannot get more than one stock/index on the chart.
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Harry Whitfield - August 15, 2005
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Dak: Sorry, but I don't think it is possible at present, as you need two indirections to get to the image.
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Dak - August 15, 2005
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Also my favorite widget.
I finally found another image I want on my desktop, but I have a feeling the parsing needed to grab the image is beyond this widget's ability. Can anyone figger out how to grab the most recent "Perry Bible Fellowship" (http://cheston.com/pbf/) cartoon? They're listed here:
http://cheston.com/pbf/archivelist.html but each image appears on its own page, or in a frame on http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html.
There's a widget specially for viewing this particular comic, but I prefer the sizing and frame abilities of Web Images.
:d
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Dave Goodman - August 4, 2005
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My favorite widget.
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Harry Whitfield - August 1, 2005
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I believe there's a bug in K 2.1 that causes this. Hopefully will be fixed when K 2.1.1 is posted. Or you coul;d revert to K 2.0.1.
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Robbie - August 1, 2005
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It crashes Konfab every time I select a new image to display. Does this on two computers I've installed it on. Both are new installs and are running XP Sp2.
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Dave - July 31, 2005
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Harry sent mail, let me know if I can assist further..
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Harry Whitfield - July 31, 2005
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Horst Juelke: The ftp URLs should work as Primary URLs - I've checked that they do on the Macintosh. ftp URLs won't work as secondary URLs at present.
They also don't work as Primary URLs if you are using Privoxy.
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Harry Whitfield - July 31, 2005
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Dave: I'd need much more detail on how you sign on etc., and what form the URLs take, if I'm to think about your request. My email address is in the about-box.
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Horst Juelke - July 31, 2005
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Hello, i have a Problem: The imagaes on this Sites: http://www.dlr.de/caf/aktuelles/aktuelle_satellitenbilder/europawetter.tvprodukte
did not work, in my older Webcam Widget these images work pretty.
check this in Safari:
ftp://ftp.dfd.dlr.de/put/to_zdf/Central_Europe/ql_image1.jpg,it works
Can anywone help?
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Dave - July 31, 2005
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Would like to see user/password option, i have a few sites that are protected that I want to get images from..
Thanks
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Harry Whitfield - July 29, 2005
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Alt-clicking on the wrench button should save the current image to the output folder.
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Tom - July 29, 2005
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Any chance that it can save the images not just display them to a local directory? Sorry if I missed this in the instructions - I thought I could save to the output folder but that doesn't seem to be working. Thanks
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Stan - July 26, 2005
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Hmm, I am using 2.1.... hopefully this won't go away! It seems to be a feature of curl as opposed to K. Well, very cool either way.
Thanks!
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Harry Whitfield - July 26, 2005
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Stan: I think your joy will be short-lived. K 2.1 has been changed so that it does not support cookies shared between applications.
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Stan - July 26, 2005
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Excellent! It took some searching to figure out exactly what curl is, but it works great - WebImage can use my Firefox cookies to get to sites that require a login. Very cool.
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George - July 21, 2005
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:-(
Great utility anyway...
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Harry Whitfield - July 21, 2005
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WebImages can't execute client-side javascript - I think you're out of luck.
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George - July 21, 2005
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It works perfect. I wonder if there is possibility to use this somehow in case of java scripts.
For example on page http://www.trafficland.com/findacam/trafficvideo.php?uid=0&map=124
there is several cameras on the map on the left, links are javascripts starting image show on the right. Image source of one of them is pointing to http://cam02.trafficland.com/trafficimage.php?system=pub&webid=1011XX&pubtoken=cba206a2b14827e0043fc47f5d1bf035&random=0.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
first XX in 1011 in that link is specific for the camera, last XXXXXXXXXXX is number of the image that is changing every 5 seconds. I could not get this to work.
George
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George - July 21, 2005
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Oooooh, how easy it is! I was trying severla combinations, you are right quotes are not there!
Thanks a lot, now I have an idea how to deal with the rest of them.
Thanks a lot, this is great wonderful widget!
I can see my favorit places around the world on my desktop.
George
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Harry Whitfield - July 21, 2005
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Description: TEST Image Primary URL: http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/78.html Guard String: Prefix String: <IMG SRC= Start String: http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/capture/ End String: .78.jpg Suffix String: > The Prefix String and Start String must be contiguous. I also did not see the two quotes you show. This comment applies to version 2.5.5 |
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George - July 20, 2005
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Harry, I cannot get this one working, could please anybody help me? I do not know what am I doing wrong :-( It is this traffic web cam at http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/78.html Images are at http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/capture/ and picture is ending as .78.jpg This is not working: Primary URL: http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/ Guard String: Prefix String: <img src=" Start String: capture/ End String: .78.jpg Suffix String: " Thanks in advance. This comment applies to version 2.5.5 |
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George - July 20, 2005
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Harry, I cannot get this one working, could please anybody help me? I do not know what am I doing wrong :-( It is this traffic web cam at http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/78.html Images are at http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/capture/ and picture is ending as .78.jpg This is not working: Primary URL: http://www.dpwt.com/jpgcap/ Guard String: Prefix String: <img src=" Start String: capture/ End String: .78.jpg Suffix String: " Thanks in advance. This comment applies to version 2.5.5 |
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Harry Whitfield - July 18, 2005
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Limbonik: With WebImages 2.5.5 and network access method set to CURL, you could try: Description: Westcott Plaza Primary URL: http://www.fsu.edu/Webcam/westcott/ Guard String: Prefix String: <img src=" Start String: /cgi-bin/webcam/pushcam? End String: Suffix String: " This comment applies to version 2.5.5 |
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Harry Whitfield - July 13, 2005
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You can - more or less. Alt-click the + button, edit the form and press OK. Then delete the old version.
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Limbonik - July 13, 2005
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Thanks for the help. One thing that would be pretty nice to have on this would be the ability to go back and re-edit your link(s) if possible. :)
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Harry Whitfield - July 13, 2005
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The http://www.fsu.edu/Webcam/ links can't currently be accessed with WebImages as they have been protected (to a certain extent), so that they only work in browsers.
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Harry Whitfield - July 13, 2005
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Description: InstaCam Primary URL: http://www.instacam.com/showcam.asp?id=LKBNV&size=S Guard String: Prefix String: <img name="animImg" src=" Start String: http://wwc.instacam.com/instacamImg/lkbnv/ End String: Suffix String: " This comment applies to version 2.5.4 |
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Limbonik - July 13, 2005
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I love this thing, but unfortunately am not as tech-savvy as some. Could anyone take a look at these 2 links and tell me how to set them up to change? I'm thinking I just need a few more visible examples to figure out what I'm doing wrong (I hope.) ;)
http://www.instacam.com/showcam.asp?id=LKBNV&size=S
http://www.fsu.edu/Webcam/ (a few here; any can be used for an example.)
Thanks for the wonderful plugin and thanks for any help that can be provided. :)
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Harry Whitfield - July 13, 2005
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Quentin: I've just created and run eight instances of WebImages without any problems. Could you explain more fully (perhaps in the forums) what you have tried to do, and under which circumstances this occurs? Please also provide the version numbers of K and the system you are using.
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Quentin - July 13, 2005
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Works Great but I seem to only be able to add 5 webcams and then it deletes one for every one I add? Help!?
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Harry Whitfield - July 13, 2005
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Tim: If your webcam is currently being accessed through a local web server running on your local machine and using the http protocol, it might well be possible. How do you access your camera?
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Tim - July 12, 2005
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Great job.
Q: Is it possible to use this widget to access my own webcam (without having to access internet)?
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Harry Whitfield - July 10, 2005
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As far as I know, Konfabulator is not (currently) capable of displaying Flash files.
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Frankb - July 10, 2005
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Any possibilities or do you know of widgets that can show a flash file (.swf)? We have dashboards created in flash that view XML readings which would be essential to add as a widget. If so email me, frank@engexp.com. thanks!
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Harry Whitfield - July 9, 2005
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DPK: WebImages is already capable of displaying GIF files. On Windows, the URL has to end in .gif or .GIF. On the Macintosh, it should display any GIF file, whether or not it has the .gif extension.
I've not tried it with a dynamic GIF. Whether that works or not is up to the way Konfabulator is implemented - I have no control over that.
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DPK - July 9, 2005
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It would be great if this supported gif images because then I could put a weather radar that moves in a loop on it. Do you think you guys could make that work?
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Harry Whitfield - July 1, 2005
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Gus and Dak: Thanks for the comments. The next version 2.5.4 should appear in a few days. I've added the save option Gus requested and an option to set the maximum image height and width which Dak asked for. I've not provided an option for minimum height and width.
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DPK - June 30, 2005
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Wowsers, what a powerful widget. Already have 3 places programmed. Here's the code for woot.com: Description: Woot.com Primary URL: http://www.woot.com/ Prefix String: <img src=" Start String: http://image.woot.com/Images/ End String: .jpg Suffix String: " And the I WANT ONE/SOLD OUT sign for woot: Description: Woot.com Sold Out Primary URL: http://www.woot.com/ Guard String: <a href="https://www.woot.com/woot_order.aspx?d=6/30/2005"> Prefix String: <img src=" Start String: http://image.woot.com/Images/ End String: .jpg Suffix String: " Thanks guys, keep up the good work! This comment applies to version 2.5.3 |
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Dak - June 26, 2005
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This is a fantastic widget. Way better for showing comics than "Daily Dose" (which is designed for comics). Fantastic, terrific, thank you.
One suggestion: instead of (or in addition to) being able to choose exact height or width of the image, it would be great to be able to optionally set the maximum and minimum height and width, to deal with images that come in at unexpected sizes.
Thanks!
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Gus - June 21, 2005
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This widget is one of the greatest distractions I've found to stop me from studying.
A suggestion: An option to save the images with numbered suffixes eg img001.jpg, img002.jpg, so that it is easier to keep a set of images that can be viewed in sequence.
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Justin Campbell - June 20, 2005
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Love this widget. A little buggy/slow at times, but perfect for weather maps.
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Harry Whitfield - May 31, 2005
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DeScartes: The widget works by fetching images from web servers using HTTP. Webcams feed pictures to a web server which the widget accesses. The only way that the widget could know that an image had changed would be to compare each received image with the previous image (byte by byte).
In principle, this could be done, and there could be a mode in which the widget remained invisible until it detected a change. However, we have no plans to do this at the present time.
WebImages is quite a complicated widget which was not designed with your application in mind. It would probably be much simpler for someone to design a much simpler widget targetted at your application.
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DeScartes - May 19, 2005
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Security: obvious, practical and sensible app for those who leave webcams on at home in case of intruders
Q: many such webcams are motion sensored - would it be possible for the widget to come to front of screen/launch if the cam detects movement instead of me having to launch the widget to see if there's a change? a further refinement might be to link to email and send an image to email address ....
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Harry Whitfield - May 19, 2005
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Web Images has acquired a new display bug on K 2.0. When a new image is selected, the image before the current image is displayed, even though the new image has been correctly fetched. We are investigationg the cause.
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DeScartes - May 19, 2005
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Security: obvious, practical and sensible app for those who leave webcams on at home in case of intruders
Q: many such webcams are motion sensored - would it be possible for the widget to come to front of screen/launch if the cam detects movement instead of me having to launch the widget to see if there's a change? a further refinement might be to link to email and send an image to email address ....
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DeScartes - May 19, 2005
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Security: obvious, practical and sensible app for those who leave webcams on at home in case of intruders
Q: many such webcams are motion sensored - would it be possible for the widget to come to front of screen/launch if the cam detects movement instead of me having to launch the widget to see if there's a change? a further refinement might be to link to email and send an image to email address ....
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Harry Whitfield - May 15, 2005
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It appears that the default (Tyne Bridge) webcam is no longer available, which may have caused new users minor problems. Version 2.4.7 uses a different default webcam.
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Danny - May 6, 2005
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Thank you for this widget. It's exactly what I was looking for and works brilliantly.
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Dan - April 10, 2005
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Hello, now I have got the error message of the widget quitting sometimes (like mentioned last year, Sept):
2005-04-10 12:30:44.821 Konfabulator[381] [mini Weather.widget] error fetching: http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/SZXX0033?cc=*&link=xoap&par=1003725713&key=1729016d019d4a7d&unit=m: connect() timed out! (HTTP Code: 0)
2005-04-10 12:30:45.858 Konfabulator[377] [The Weather.widget] error fetching: http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/SZXX0006?cc=*&link=xoap&par=1003725713&key=1729016d019d4a7d&unit=m: connect() timed out! (HTTP Code: 0)
Application transferred too few scanlines
2005-04-10 12:32:50.210 Konfabulator[385] *** NSTimer discarding exception 'NSRangeException' (reason '*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)') that raised during firing of timer with target 417b50 and selector 'timerTask:'
Can you help? Thanks!
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Harry Whitfield. - March 9, 2005
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Dan - thanks for the comments. There are a lot of problems in doing what you suggest, but we'll think about it.
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Dan - March 8, 2005
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I love this widget! Its small, neat, and has great features. I just have a couple of suggestions for features in a new version.
1. A variable update frequency: Have a standard refresh rate, say 5 seconds, but then say if you click down on it, the refresh rate increases to every second (or another rate) until the click is relseased.
2. Ability to load and cycle through a series of images: Many weather satellite images are stored as separate images in a common directory. For instance, et0.gif, et-1.gif, et-2.gif, and so on, counting backward in time. It would be great if there were a way to specify a directory and a range of images (et0.gif to et-24.gif) to cycle through.
Great work guys!
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Dan - March 8, 2005
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I love this widget! Its small, neat, and has great features. I just have a couple of suggestions for features in a new version.
1. A variable update frequency: Have a standard refresh rate, say 5 seconds, but then say if you click down on it, the refresh rate increases to every second (or another rate) until the click is relseased.
2. Ability to load and cycle through a series of images: Many weather satellite images are stored as separate images in a common directory. For instance, et0.gif, et-1.gif, et-2.gif, and so on, counting backward in time. It would be great if there were a way to specify a directory and a range of images (et0.gif to et-24.gif) to cycle through.
Great work guys!
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Harry Whitfield. - March 2, 2005
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yobaby: Can you provide more details - perhaps in the appropriate support form?
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yobaby - February 26, 2005
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Awesome widget, but the new version 2.4.2 has a resource leak that kills my system. Previous versions did not have this problem. It freezes the desktop and burns 85% CPU on my Athlon XP 2800+, 1.5GB RAM!
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Harry Whitfield. - February 19, 2005
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The ImageView widget would be better suited to your purpose. The next version will have rotation and an auto-enlarge feature. No frame at present (and probably not going to have one!).
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BobSakamento - February 18, 2005
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This seems like it could be used as a desktop image pinup widget pretty easily. I was wondering, how hard would it be to add more customizable sizes, to allow rotation, and to make the bottom border of the picture the same as the rest? With those few things, this would be a really cool widget for people who want to pin pictures on their desktop.
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Joey - January 24, 2005
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Perfect! v239 corrects the issue. Just for testing's sake, I tried running v231 after digging into ~/Library/Application Support/Konfabulator/Widgets/ and removing the files there, as well as removing my old preference file. That did not fix the issue. I turned on logging, and this was the log entry when I clicked on the 'spawn new widget' button: Spawning:Web Images1.kon. But nothing spawned. Good to see that v239 fixes the issue. Let me know if you have any other tests you'd like me to run on 231.
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Harry Whitfield - January 22, 2005
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Joey: The latest beta is at http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Beta/WebImages239.zip. I would recommend that you clear out the old prefs as before and also check that any files from WebImages in ~/Library/Application Support/Konfabulator/Widgets/ are removed.
You could also have the ancestor widget log to file (the pdf document tells you how). That might tell us what is going wrong.
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Joey - January 21, 2005
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Thanks, Harry, but that didn't do the trick. Trashed all preferences for WebImages in ~/Library/Preferences/Konfabulator and relaunched. Default image of Tyne Bridge appears, but clicking on the 'spawn new window' icon does nothing. I occasionally get a brief beachball cursor when I do this, but nothing else happens. Hopefully the next version will cure this. I'm using Konfab v1.8.2 and WebImages 2.3.1.
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Harry Whitfield - January 17, 2005
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I've just downloaded 231 and tried it in both zipped and unzipped forms on the Macintosh with K 1.8.2. Both work correctly for me. It may be that your old stored preferences from version 2.1 are not compatible with this version.
I suggest you move the widget's .plist files out of the ~/Library/Preferences/Konfabulator folder and try again.
There is a new version 239 which should appear shortly in the Gallery. This handles spawning in a different way.
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Joey - January 17, 2005
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Great, great, great. Three words to describe this widget. Unfortunately, this new version (my first upgrade since 2.1) breaks the ability to spawn a new window (Mac version, running Konfab 1.8.2). Hope a fix is in the works.
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Harry Whitfield - January 7, 2005
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There are new beta versions (235 and 236) which you can find via the 3rd Party Windows Widgets Support Forum. There's also an update awaiting approval in the Gallery update queue. Version 231 has a problem which affects NEW Windows users of Web Images. It occurs because of a fault in the Windows version of Konfabulator.
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Click - January 7, 2005
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Cant even use this because of the errors that keep coming out when u try to load it
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Harry Whitfield - January 6, 2005
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I've posted the URL of WebImages235 in the 3rd Party Windows Widgets Support Forum. This is (yet) another beta version in an attempt to solve the loading problem.
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dougward - January 5, 2005
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When I try to open it I get this:
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible (mainWindow: 012A1458, visible: No)
Aargh.
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Harry Whitfield - January 2, 2005
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The loading error appears to happen on a very small number of Windows systems. We still don't have a clue as to why. There's some discussion in the Support Forum, and beta versions to try.
This comment applies to version 2.2.7 |
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Kim - December 31, 2004
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I get the same error.
This comment applies to version 2.2.7 |
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hailstorm - December 30, 2004
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I'm getting the following error when trying to load this (this widget is exactly what I want!)
Errors prevented this Widget from making itself visible (mainWindow: 00C57DB0, visible: No)
This comment applies to version 2.2.7 |
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Harry Whitfield - December 8, 2004
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There is an image of the sliders in the Mac version at http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Konfabulator/sliders.jpg . The Windows and Macintosh versions of Web Images use exactly the same code, so any "cosmetic" differences are due to the behavior of Konfabulator on Windows.
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Harry Whitfield - December 8, 2004
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The tick marks mean exactly the same on Windows as on the Macintosh. They indicate times from 5 seconds to 1 hour. Here are the numbers of seconds corresponding to each of the eleven marks:
["5","10","15","30","60","120","300","600","900","1800","3600"];
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Brad - December 8, 2004
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Hmm, so I might be updating every 5 seconds then. The IT guy should be calling any minute now...
There are 11 tick marks in the Windows slider, so I do not know how that correlates to the time intervals in the Mac version.
Brad
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Harry Whitfield - December 8, 2004
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I'm told that sliders on Windows don't have (and never have had) the capability of having tickLabels against the marks. Very odd.
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Harry Whitfield - December 6, 2004
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That's odd, but I can't run it own Windows. Perhaps, Ricky can check this.
The marks on the Macintosh are as follows;
|5s | |15s | |1m | |5 | |15 | |1h
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Brad - December 6, 2004
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Nice Widget.
I have one question that I could not resolve by reading the documentation. In the Widget preferences (Windows, btw), there is no idication of what time interval each has mark represents in the refresh interval. I don't know if I'm updating my image every 5 minutes or 5 seconds...
Thanks!
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Brandon - December 3, 2004
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Simple...But Works well
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Harry Whitfield - December 2, 2004
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We should be able to do Proxy Server support on Windows when the description of the new URL object becomes available.
The other request is much harder. Many web servers don't allow access to directory listings, and there is also no guarantee that every file in a directory is something that can be displayed as an image. It might be possible to let the user specify a pattern for a sequence of URLs to be attempted, but this may result in lots of failed requests.
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Just another Joe - December 2, 2004
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I am new to Konfabulator (and am unfortunately running it on Windows). What a wonderful tool for those of us who are PC-bound (although I do have a MAC at home!)
Your Web Images Widget works well and I appreciate it greatly.
Might I suggest 2 items –?
First is support for a proxy server in Windows.
Second, is to provide a preference choice for the WIW to automatically step through all the images found in a directory on the web, much as the “Picture Frame” widget does for a local directory.
This comment applies to version 2.2.4 |
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Harry Whitfield - November 18, 2004
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There is a copy of Web Images 2.1.5 at http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Konfabulator/WebImages215.dmg.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Harry Whitfield - November 18, 2004
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The recently added proxy support does not work on Mac OS X 10.2.8, although it works fine on Mac OS X 10.3.6. Users who have problems with Web Images 2.1.9 should stick with the previous version 2.1.5, until we find a solution.
This comment applies to version 2.1.9 |
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Harry Whitfield - October 20, 2004
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Mike - There's a test version at <http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Konfabulator/WebImages.dmg> which supports web proxy servers.
This comment applies to version 2.1.5 |
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Harry Whitfield - October 20, 2004
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Web Images uses the Unix curl command to access the Internet. It appears that curl does not make use of the proxy settings defined in the Network Preferences Pane. We could add a preference to Web Images to allow a proxy server to be defined. Users may also be able to define a Unix environment variable to define a proxy server, which curl would then use. The current version does not have proxy server support.
This comment applies to version 2.1.5 |
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Mike - October 19, 2004
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I like it a lot, but can't access it through the firewall at work. (OX 10.3.4)
This comment applies to version 2.1.5 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 30, 2004
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Dan - I've found particular URLs that cause the widget to quit quite quickly. This appears to be due to damaged image formats, which K can't cope with. There's not much I can do about it. The debug version may tell you something - you have to shift+option-click the + button, then open prefs to turn on the debug to file option.
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Dan - September 29, 2004
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Hi Harry
Thanks alot for the modification. Unfortunately, the widget is still quitting form time to time. I was observing the widget now for a while and I am not able to tell you, when it is disappearing. Sometimes it's just away. It's not depending on a particular cam.
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 22, 2004
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Dan and Dave - There's an updated debug version at <http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Konfabulator/WebImages.dmg>. I've made a change to delay network calls after the widget wakes from being asleep. I hope this helps with Dan's problem.
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Dave - September 21, 2004
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Hi Harry,
Great little app... has become a "must-have" in less than a week since I started using... but I also am seeing the same problem of it silently dropping. I haven't actually witnessed the drop, I just happen to glance over and it's gone. I am currently flipping through about 12 webcams, none of which are streaming.
I just downloaded your debug version, and I'll run it and report anything I find via the forum.
Thanks again, Dave
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 21, 2004
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Dan - you'll have to provide more detail, if you want me to chase the problem. How many images were you viewing? Were you looking at streaming cams, etc., etc. Did this occur with particular URLs? Please file a full report in the Third Party Widget Support Forum. There is a version of Web Images which logs the debug window of the initial ancestor widget to file at <http://g7awz.users.btopenworld.com/Konfabulator/WebImages.dmg>. This might catch the error.
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Dan - September 21, 2004
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Like Norman said: Great, but it drops all the time, after going to sleep, it diseapears
This comment applies to version 2.1 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 6, 2004
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Norman - Please file a more detailed report in the 3rd Party Widget Support Forum.
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Norman - September 6, 2004
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Great, but it drops all of the time. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks and I really enjoy it
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 6, 2004
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You'll have to wait until Konfabulator supports streaming. Windows Media Player and RealPlayer are the best that I can do at present. You would also need a 2Mbps internet connection to support the display of four streaming webcams.
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Mike - September 6, 2004
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If there's ever a way you can figure out how to get a streaming traffic cam in there (the stream (.asx) plays in Windows Media Player on my machine)... I would bow down to thee. All my traffic cams in Sacramento, CA are streaming... How cool would it be to have a matrix of 4 cameras for all the major freeways I travel every day? Answer: WAY Cool!
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 3, 2004
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Version 2.1, to be released soon, allows you to choose between the current fixed 4:3 aspect ratio and the natural aspect ratio of the image.
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Aaron - September 3, 2004
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Would be a much better program if it allowed images of other aspect ratios. I was trying some images from wunderground.com that were square and they were squashed to fit in the standard webcam ratio. Otherwise a great little program.
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 1, 2004
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Ricky - I've already got it working and already done the tooltip too!
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Ricky Romero - September 1, 2004
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Make sure you mention "Option-click to [function here]." in the tooltips. :-)
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Harry Whitfield - September 1, 2004
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In the next release, I'll do that for you, probably by overloading the current buttons. Something like; Option-click the wrench to save the current image, Option-click the eyeglass to open the current URL in your browser.
The next release will also be able to deal with (some) variable image URLs.
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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Bob - August 31, 2004
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Works great! Love it....
One request...how about an icon on the bottom next to the rest to click and save the current image in the window?
Thanks...
This comment applies to version 2.0 |
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