Re: New Mac OS X Live Departure Boards Widget
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Re: New Mac OS X Live Departure Boards Widget         

Group: uk.railway · Group Profile
Author: Philip Hardy
Date: May 13, 2008 15:27

Jeremy Double wrote:
> Philip Hardy wrote:
>> Seeing as Tubetrack no longer works I've had a go at writing my own.
>>
>> It's based on the layout of Tubetrack rather than the layout of NRES
>> Windows Vista Gadget, which doesn't seem to suit the Dashboard. It
>> doesn't save your selected station yet and it doesn't search station
>> names yet - the only way to change the station is to give it the 3
>> letter NRS code.
>>
>> It's my first attempt at writing a widget and my first attempt at
>> writing substantial JavaScript (which I've been learning as I go
>> along). It has some problems, which I haven't yet solved (resizing
>> the scroll bars for instance). Therefore it should only be considered
>> test quality software - use it at your own risk.
>>
>> If you have a Mac (it's not a Vista Gadget, it won't work on Microsoft
>> Windows) and you'd like to give it at try it's available for download at:
>>
>> http://www.phardy.karoo.net/NationalRail.zip
>>
>> A screenshot is available at:
>>
>> http://www.phardy.karoo.net/widgetscreenshot.png
>
> It doesn't work on Firefox 2.0.0.14 on a G4 iMac running OSX 10.3.9.
>
> On Safari 1.3.2 I get six "file doesn't exist" errors:
> file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/AppleAnimator.js
> file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/AppleButton.js
> file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/AppleInfoButton.js
> file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/AppleScrollArea.js
> file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/AppleScrollbar.js
> file:///Users/.../NationalRail.wdgt/localizedStrings.js
>
> However I do get the live departure board information for Nuneaton.

I should have mentioned that it requires at least Mac OS X 10.4.3
(Tiger) to work. Tiger was the first version of OS X with the Dashboard
- anything before doesn't have the required libraries (I don't think
they're freely available). I'm running it on the latest (Intel) version
of Leopard (10.5.2).

I'm pleasantly suprised you get as far as displaying any information in
Panther.
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