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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2010, 04:47:24 PM »
This thing is awesome! You guys rock seriously hard! THANK YOU!
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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2010, 05:51:45 PM »
Next version is attached, this one uses checkboxes and a complete(?) list of mwll servers. Also colors are adjustable from within the widget, the inputs should be hex/html color codes without the'#' (so FF0000 for pure red etc.). Reloading is also a lot nicer and should not screw up anything this time. Update interval is increased to 5 min, I don't feel like creating a DDoS on gametracker.

Glad to hear someone finds this usefull.

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Would you mind editing the first post to include this version as well?

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still issues with the refresh, IE caches the images overzealously and refuses to reload them...removing the file until I get a fix for this
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Everything works fine if you tell Internet explorer to 'check for newer versions of stored pages' 'every time i visit the webpage'. This is in: internet options->general->browsing history->settings. I'm working on a better solution.

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2010, 05:41:10 AM »
(People use IE...?!)

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2010, 08:04:48 AM »
This widget is rendered by IE and there's nothing I can do about it. If you change the setting I mentioned everything will work nicely and if you leave it on the default 'automatic' refreshes only occur when changing color.
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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2010, 10:48:32 AM »
nice tool, thx.
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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2010, 01:04:05 PM »
I can't get this to install on Vista. Renaming the download to a .gadget doesn't change how it opens and i can't see a way to just drop the folders into the gadgets directory.

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2011, 09:01:48 PM »
BUMP

Gadget has been updated to add active servers and cull inactive ones. Check the first post for 0.2.1.


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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2011, 09:23:56 PM »
Wow, this is pretty cool.

Would it be possible to make it only show certain servers I'd like to track?

The time left on current map would be great as well... You'd have to query the server directly though, gametracker doesn't have that info...

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2011, 09:36:53 PM »
very neat and useful!  I do have a couple suggestions for features in the future:

1) ability to change font size (namely increase it)
2) option to only show currently populated servers
3) option to always show population history graph instead of only when its clicked on to expand all the servers/options
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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2011, 10:28:33 PM »
Very nice work, gentlemen !
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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2011, 10:54:02 PM »
I've made a 'vista' theme for this gadget to make it go nicely with the rest of the stock ones in vista and seven:


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Background Color (top): 23293a
Background Color (bottom): 141723
Border Color: 5e616d
Text Color: ffffff

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #26 on: September 27, 2011, 12:51:07 AM »
Wow, this is pretty cool.

Would it be possible to make it only show certain servers I'd like to track?

The time left on current map would be great as well... You'd have to query the server directly though, gametracker doesn't have that info...

Yes, you click on the list, uncheck the ones that you don't want, and hit Apply. If there is a server that I missed somehow, let me know and I will update again so that everyone can have it. It has to be tracked on Gametrackers obviously.

I'm pretty sure showing the map time requires CryQuery or CryRCon, which I don't want to mess with. Maybe lonkero will come back and figure that out, it's way out of my scope. I did simple copypasta work, and then he came along and made it work. Plus having a client individually querying all of the servers on its list seems problematic to me, both for a client doing several queries at once, and a server receiving a much larger number of queries.

very neat and useful!  I do have a couple suggestions for features in the future:

1) ability to change font size (namely increase it)
2) option to only show currently populated servers
3) option to always show population history graph instead of only when its clicked on to expand all the servers/options

1. That's all up to Gametracker.com. I think that the font size scales to the vertical size of the box, so increasing that may make fonts bigger...I'm not sure.
2. I don't even know how to start with that.
3. The div is specifically set up to be smaller than the entire banner, so it cuts off the graph. This could be solved by keeping the div size consistent to the banner size.

Keep in mind that this is open-source and for the community, so if you think you can make it better, go for it. Just make sure you share.

Aside, I'd really love an Android solution to seeing server status, and I'm really not liking HLSW. Any ideas for me? Mobile rcon that works would be a godsend as well.


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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2011, 05:52:31 AM »
Here's a larger version of the gadget. It's probably too big to see the Apply button at the bottom if you have <1400 vertical pixels. I fixed it so the history graph is always shown as well.

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Re: MWLL Server status Windows Vista/7 gadget
« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2011, 08:47:54 AM »
Does the new gadget simply overwrite the old one? I find the handling of windows gadget horrible, you can't even properly uninstall them, or can you?