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steampunk cpu/gpu thermometer receives a facelift |
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 |
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The steampunk cpu/gpu thermometer has been accepted on Yahoo widgets thanks to the assistance of Dave Rice of Yahoo and Harry Whitfield (Merlin). Now it is downloadable I expect a lot of bugs to be reported and plenty to do. It is now version 0.19 which has quite a few changes the major of which are the addition of two gauges and associated piping. The gauges were supplied by Kevin B (Mr. Tibbs from Brassgoggles) from his windows gadget, I, in turn gave him the source PSD file from the steampunk clock.
The gauges have proven very useful to show CPU and memory usage which
are easily obtained from the yahoo runtime engine. The gauges are
larger-scale gauges shrunk to fit, therefore they have plenty of detail
and look the part. They have been modified slightly from the original to
be useful in a yahoo widget and they look the part. I had been put off
slightly by the sheer work involved in creating a gauge of my own and
Kevin's generosity has spurred me on to finish the visual aspect of the
widget.
I'd like to know what you think. Sizing is still to be decided, the
appropriate pipework is being put in place but I'm not yet sure where to
put the levers to make the gauges appear/disappear or whether I should.
You'll notice I have made some other changes, the widget now has three
nice new toggles,
the hot/warm sliders have a small wheel behind them, the sliders have
left an indented trail on the wood, the frequency slider now indicates
the sampling interval in seconds on the slider itself. I think the
visual side is largely done now unless you have any particular suggestions.
0.19 is now ready for downloading and will have the gauges as shown as
well as :
0.19 Graphical bug, selecting new sensor sometimes causes the
thermometer index to be overwritten
0.19 Graphical bug, the text sliders are no longer written at the top of
the page on startup
0.19 Added the frequency slider in seconds.
0.19 Added the temperature in degrees fahrenheit
0.19 Added the wheels behind the hot and warm sliders
0.19 Added the fahrenheit scale
0.19 Added the fahrenheit/centigrade selecter images
0.19 Extracted the centigrade scale to a separate image
0.19 Added the restart and mute toggles
0.19 Moved the Speedfan site button to the right
0.19 Added code to mute the sounds if disabled
0.19 Added code to kill restart speedfan if button pressed
This should make your desktop a lot more steampunk.
Some stuff is still yet to be done.
Sort out the text on the drop down help
Draw the chart
Ensure HM Stationers text moves
Add the resized platen to the widget and adjust all the hoffsets
Change the drop down canvas to work in steps with noises &c
Add some additional noises to the printer movement.
resizing bug causes platen to be in the wrong place
resizing bug causes warm/hot alarm sliders to be in the wrong place
resizing bug means hot alarm sliders cannot be lowered
resizing bug means sampling interval is incorrect
Add Mac OS/X temperature code ( an unknown quantity this ) - partly done
but untested
Sort out the problem with sensor values less than 10c being incorrectly
extracted as just the letter c
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