With tiger getting closer im interested to hear what widgets you may have created or may be working on or widgets that you would like someone to make.

Im putting the finishing touches on a tv guide widget and then im moving on to an xml/rss parser

im open to ideas for other widgets so if you have an idea let me know

how about a flush widget that flushes cache and log files?

ie it could be a little widget with a few buttons, one button for internet cache files, another for system log files, another for crashlog files. etc etc. that way people that can't be bothered or just don't know how can actually delete these things. it would be a widget that you wouldn't always have visible but it would be handy nevertheless.

Ric

A general non-validating xml parser would be cool

You could put all sorts of data through that - even raw HTML.

yup thats could be done.not something i know how to do right now though.
i would think a perl script or something like that could be used to do th deleting

im thinking of doing a specialised australian weather widget and im also investigating doing an alarm clock widget

my tv guide widget is essentially an xml parser that does extra things.
it downloads the xml feeds then split them up and gets what it needs.

aslong as the feed uses a standard structure i can easily make a parser for rss feeds.

if you want to dump html then the widget would need to designed for each source.

im going to look at a html parser to get usage stats for bigpond and a few other isp's but each one will be designed for 1 html feed as the structure is always different

another cool one could be spectre's webcam widget

again thats possible.
i belive you can view that through a normal webpage so it would just be a matter of linking the video source into a widget wich would be a simple
5 minute job

Are you going to post them somewhere for people to download them?
The tv guide and the cache and log flusher ideas sound like winners to me.

Will the tv guide widget be similar to the tv guide system used on Foxtel digital? I hope so.

i wont release any widgets until tiger ships.
the tvguide widget is working nicely but it has problems under later builds so ill have to do some debugging when tiger comes out.

once they are complete ill post links here for sure.

its based on the konfabulator widget "Whats on" which is made by another australian developer.

i dont know how the guide on foxtel works but im very hapy with mine.
its very user friendly and very simple.
it supports all channels including austar/foxtel/optus along with digital and high def channels.

it shows the current show along with the next 2 shows
its fairly limited on what it can show.
it uses the only free tv guide feed i know of in australia but it lacks data.
it doesnt show descriptions of shows or anything like that.
at the moment for each channel it shows the channel logo and then the current and next 2 shows.for each show the start time and name are shown.i havent seen the need for any other data and there is no way to add any more at this stage anyway

you can see the konfabulator version here
http://litespeed.aeoth.net/images/whatson.jpg

since someone liked my idea for the flusher widget (has to have a toilet icon) i will suggest a less serious one. make a widget that does my job so that i can simply keep my computer at work and head down to the beach on sunny days.

islayer, that's a simplified version of the foxtel system.

Good enough for me.

I've been working on a couple - one is a small light that will flash red if a security update is available that you haven't installed yet. The other is a one that I worked on with a friend that is a Japanese Kana flash card widget (nicer than the one that is already online, of course :-P).

I might try and make an Internode usage widget sometime soonish. That'd be handy I reckon (for me anyway).

that security update one is a good idea.
im up for an internode widget but it wouldnt happen till i move to them sometime this month.


as for my tv guide widget ive had a suggestion from someone at whirlpool to add support for the channel packages of foxtel/austar which i will impliment today

ill get some screenshots up tonight