:iconeurekaplz:
you have written a tutorial? then upload it into this gallery.
du hast ein tutorial verfasst? dann lad es in diese galerie hoch.
Retro gaming/art design hardware build by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Retro gaming/art design hardware build
Retro gaming, program design and retro graphic development is entirely practical!
The bad thing about not throwing away old stuff is that your house can soon become full of clutter. The good thing about not throwing things away is that there is always something to dig into and there is always a useful gem hidden in amongst all that stuff. We have a family of eight or nine members living in this house (dependent upon how well we treat the daughter's latest boyfriend) and so there is enough stuff here to fill a large-sized house. It is my boy's birthday so I thought I'd build him a test rig, a machine to test and build new hardware and install
Rocketdock gallery is closing - a sad day by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Rocketdock gallery is closing - a sad day
The rocketdock gallery is closing, for me it is a really sad day as it is THE place to go for icons. My icons/widgets received a million or more downloads from Rocketdock over the last few years and a search on Google for that sort of thing will always have rocketdock at the top of any search. It is a blow for me as it has always been one of my "go-to" places on the web when I want a resource or inspiration for a new icon I am creating.
It is/was also a quick, easy and free place to upload resources, wallpapers, icons or even widgets. A sad day indeed. It was here:
https://rocketdock.com/user/107284/addons/popular
Rocketdock, the software
Spectre and DeviantArt users update Windows today by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Spectre and DeviantArt users update Windows today
UPDATED: Added comprehensive lists of CPUs affected, Intel, ARM and AMD, ARM situation updated, Intel Microcode patch problems *4, re-organised certain paragraphs.
I've written this tutorial/journal item for all Deviantart users. Most of us use computers now to create our art and so what follows is really ultra-relevant to all of us. I have tried to distil the important facts regarding the Spectre/Meltdown exploits and how they might affect you. There are a lot of words here but please don't let let that put you off. You need to read and understand at least some of it as it WILL affect you.
-oOo-
:star: Spectre/Meltdown
There exists a nas
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt7 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt7
Part VII of the guide to converting a Yahoo widget to a Xwidget, this guide follows on from Part VI which can be found here:
Timers
Timers are created in the yahoo widget in the following manner:
Code:
var busyTimer = new Timer();
busyTimer.interval = 0.1;
busyTimer.ticking=false;
The above code is placed somewhere, anywhere within the YWE javascript .js file not just in the startup function. The function that is called by the timer is defined using the following code and can be placed anywhere:
Code:
busyTimer.onTimerFired = function () {
busy.visible = true;
busyBlur.visible = true;
busyCounter = busyCounter
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt6 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt6
Part VI of the guide to converting a Yahoo widget to a Xwidget, this guide follows on from Part V which can be found here:
Preferences
The Yahoo widget engine has one particular advantage over the xwidget engine in that it provides a ready made structure for configuring user preferences. A right click on any widget gives you the menu preferences option that opens to display a number of panes where user-defined preferences can be stored and configured.
[ A typical preference window ]
Each preference pane is created by simply adding a group definition to the preferences XML in the .KON file.
Code:
<prefGroup name="general" order="1
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt5 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt5
Part V of the guide to converting a Yahoo widget to a Xwidget, this guide follow on from Part IV which can be found here:
Tooltips and Hints
Tooltips used to be supported in earlier versions of the Xwidget engine but Tony the developer, during the original development of xwidget 1.0 changed the tooltips to hints. Hints are massive bubble pop-ups that display the tooltip text in a large-ish font whereas tooltips are small discreet boxes using small fonts. The Yahoo widget engine only uses normal tooltips and as these sort of tooltips are not supported in the current version of the Xwidget engine ,you cannot replicate this functionality.
The
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt4 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt4
Part IV of the guide to converting a Yahoo widget to a Xwidget, this guide follows on from Part III which can be found here:
Functions - The Onload function
The widget needs a starting point from which to commence operation. Within the Yahoo widget the onload function is typically defined in XML code within the .KON file in the following manner:
Code:
<action trigger="onload">
<![CDATA[
startup();
]]>
</action>
This onload event calls a particular function, in this case startup();
To convert this to Xwidget the following needs to occur. In the Xwidget IDE in design mode, select the wid
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt2 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt2
Part II of the guide to converting a Yahoo widget to a Xwidget, this guide follows on from Part I which can be found here:
Next step was to pull the code from the Yahoo widget, that was easy enough to do. I use a coder's editor called Context which runs on all flavours of Windows, it is my favourite platform for coding and I have tried a few. Context is a powerful editor which just works with no complications. It doesn't try to be an IDE nor a word processor. During the conversion process I have the context editor open with multiple tabs showing all of my Yahoo widget code, while the Xwidget IDE is open in another adjacent window. It really
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt1 by yereverluvinuncleber, journal
Guide to converting Yahoo Widgets to Xwidget Pt1
Part I of a seven part series
So, a how-to for converting a working Yahoo widget to an Xwidget in order to obtain a functionally identical widget on an alternative platform. Why bother? That's a question... Well, Yahoo widgets are technically obsolete as Yahoo have withdrawn support though none of the technologies they use are actually in danger of just stopping working, it is just that coding for an obsolete platform is a little depressing. It makes more sense to code for an environment that is technically still alive.
Xwidget, despite the one and only developer (Tony) being absent from his product for two years, is still supposedly being