aimfon widget 0.1

August 8th, 2005

Since no one asked for it! The official amimorganfreemanornot.com widget is available for Dashboard/Mac OS X 10.4, in all its 0.1 glory.

Download that sucker.

TO DO:

  • Fix the missing bottom frame on images taller than wide, perhaps using the canvas tag.
  • Programatically streamline the embarassingly hacky way I select a random image from the amimorganfreemanornot.com picture gallery.
  • Make a dark black background PNG file, so the widget just doesn’t disappear when it’s loading a new image.
  • Only load images when Dashboard is active.
  • Cross-fade between images? That would be nice.
  • How about a loading animation? Why not.
  • Make clicking on the text take the user to the amimorganfreemanornot.com website.
  • Maybe have the widget do one of those cool flip-around things with some prefs (refresh rate?) on the back.
  • Maybe have a voting slider that would send votes to the amimorganfreemanornot.com site.

~jeff



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  • kamm

    Windows konfabulistic version, coming soon?

  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    Thank GOD, Jeff.

    Thank God.

  • http://echelon.dyndns.org:2005/ Jeff

    Konfabulator widgets are like, an full order of difficulty harder to write than Dashboard widgets, mostly because of the XML and the separation of the Javascript from said XML. With Dashboard widgets, you can code the whole thing in one file, sloppily moving back and forth from HTML to Javascript the whole time. And sloppy coding is what I’m all about.

    Having said that, I did look into it, and it might not be *that that* hard to scootch the code over. I’ll see what I can do.

  • geoff

    The words to express my simultaneous Joy and Sorrow have not yet been invented for the english language. I gotta go change my pants.