Mac Forums Widget?

Graphite · Jun 13, 2005

i think addikt was making a widget for konfobulator era a while back when i was developing Evur for M-F

chouk · Jun 13, 2005

since i dnt have tiger..don't they have a konfabulator one?...

trpnmonkey41 · Jun 13, 2005

sarahsboy18 said:
Murlyn... are you sure that was the correct RSS link you posted before? That is the link I used to build the widget... It doesn't seem to be pulling all the "Get New" threads. I can't really tell what it is pulling... seems somewhat random... Possibly newly created threads instead of newly updated?

Edit: I went ahead and threw a screenshot of the current version.

I think that it just gets new threads

PowerBookG4 · Jun 13, 2005

yeah it appears to only get newly created, not newly updated, but that is fine for now because that is what the rss feed has.

sarahsboy18 · Jun 13, 2005

Maybe I should add a link on the front for "Get New"... Any other ideas?

iNAP · Jun 13, 2005

add it to shout box
http://www.mac-forums.com/index.php?action=shoutbox

rs2sensen · Jun 13, 2005

I'm logged in, but it won't let me download the widget. It brings me to a screen to enter in my username and password, and then when I enter that, it just brings me to the same screen over and over again...

Maybe a link to the user profile? Thats the first place I look when I go to mac-forums, my subscribed threads...

rs2sensen · Jun 13, 2005

chouk said:
since i dnt have tiger..don't they have a konfabulator one?...

Yeah, my Tiger actually doesn't come for three days either... wish there was a konfabulator one, but I can wait...Konfabulator uses too much ram anyways.

Murlyn · Jun 13, 2005

Yeah that's the only RSS feed that I have.. muso or schweb, could you look into seeing if there are other RSS feeds available for vBulletin?

sarahsboy18 · Jun 13, 2005

I should be able to make it so you can select the RSS feed you want to view on the back... (nobody hold me to this... LOL)

Macman · Jun 13, 2005

I am still on panther with konfab. I suggested a widget when I first joined, but no one wanted to help make one.

iNAP · Jun 13, 2005

Your suggestion didn't go unnoticed ....probably just a new thing no one was sure of how to do at the time.

You still DaMan!

sarahsboy18 · Jun 13, 2005

I looked at doing a Konfab one too... but it is more XML based which puts it a little farther out of my knowledge... I know just enough web coding stuff to get into trouble. I may give it a shot later it can't be too bad.

PowerBookG4 · Jun 13, 2005

I don't even know what konfab is.

dtravis7 · Jun 13, 2005

Looks great on my end. Keep up the good work!

Macman · Jun 13, 2005

iNAP said:
Your suggestion didn't go unnoticed ....probably just a new thing no one was sure of how to do at the time. You still DaMan!

yea, 1 or 2 people posted, but it was quickly dismissed, I also suggested an rss feed, which they didn't have at the time.

trpnmonkey41 · Jun 13, 2005

Macman said:
yea, 1 or 2 people posted, but it was quickly dismissed, I also suggested an rss feed, which they didn't have at the time.

We have had the RSS Feed since September 03

rs2sensen · Jun 13, 2005

PowerBookG4 said:
I don't even know what konfab is.

It is available for both PC and Mac, and runs "widgets." It's widgets take a similar function to those found in dashboard for Tiger, but the actual programming is different. It was available before Tiger, and lots of people cried that Tiger stole Konfab's idea. However, I disagree, because the real idea of widgets, can be traced to the early macs.

Benjamindaines · Jun 13, 2005

rs2sensen said:
However, I disagree, because the real idea of widgets, can be traced to the early macs.

im with you all the way on that one

PowerBookG4 · Jun 15, 2005

oh i never heard of that before, should of had it when I got panther, but I guess since I am on Tiger now it doesn't matter.