Panzer OHM Temperature Widget, written in Jscript for the XWidget Engine. Created for XP, Vista, Win7, 8, 10+.
This Panzer widget is an attractive dieselpunk Xwidget for your desktop. It is a simple temperature gauge that can monitor the state of the various components in your machine via the reported temperatures. It uses the Open Hardware Monitor tool to extract the temperatures. Functional and gorgeous at the same time. This Widget is a moveable widget that you can move anywhere around the desktop as you require.
The widget can be resized - Hover the cursor over the widget. Press the CTRL key and use your mousewheel up or down. The widget will resize dynamically.
To find out how the widget operates, simply right click and select Help and a full explanation of all the buttons and windows, is shown. The top left window is the maximum temperature experienced by the chosen sensor, top right window is the current temperature in digital form. The bottom right window is the current scale used. The middle button selects the scale. Hovering over any control should supply a pop-up explaining each function.
I took the screenshot photo. It looks like 1944 but it was 2004! The image above was shot at Beltring in Kent. I've had to do some serious photoshopping to remove any traces of modernity. There were lots. Addition of some grain, desaturation and addition of some light brown to give it a hint of old picture. I don't want it to look too old as it loses some of the immediacy.
All javascript widgets need an engine to function, in this case the widget uses the XWidget engine. The engine interprets the javascript and creates the widget according to the XML description and using the images you provide.
NOTICE: In general, I would suggest that you use the Yahoo Widget version of this program. The reason for this is that the old XWidget engine is no longer supported and elements of it use VBScript (which Microsoft has deprecated). The Yahoo widget is better, just as easy to use and will be supported for the foreseeable future. Note that I will be creating a replacement for both soon using VB.
This is based on the similar Yahoo widget implementation. The graphic interface and operation of the two types of widgets are the same. The only differences are the configuration preference utility (this has a cut-down version), the language is Micrososoft's JScript (rather than javascript) and of course, it is the Xwidget engine that is utilised to put the widget on your screen.
This widget is uploaded here for historical archival reasons. I suggest that you use the Yahoo widget version as it is a superior engine for developing widgets. I will provide bugfixes for the Yahoo widget version but NOT for Xwidgets.
All Jscript widgets need an engine to function, in this case the widget uses the XWidget engine. The engine interprets the Jscript and creates the widget according to the XML description and using the images you provide.
Built using:
Adobe Photoshop CS ver 8.0 (2003) https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop/free-trial-download.
XWidget engine, runtime and debugger https://www.xwidget.com/
Tested on :
ReactOS 0.4.14 32bit on virtualBox
Windows 7 Professional 32bit on Intel
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on Intel
Windows 7 Professional 64bit on Intel
Windows XP SP3 32bit on Intel
Windows 10 Home 64bit on Intel
Windows 10 Home 64bit on AMD
Windows 11 64bit on Intel
Dependencies:
o A windows-alike o/s such as Windows XP, 7-11 or Apple Mac OSX 11.
o You must have Open Hardware Monitor installed and running for this widget to operate.
https://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/
o Installation of the XWidget runtime engine
XWidget engine for Windows - https://www.xwidget.com/download_xwidget.php
Running the widget using a Jscript engine frees Javascript from running only within the captivity of a browser o, you will now be able to run these widgets on your Windows desktop as long as you have the correct widget engine installed.
- Install XWidget runtime engine
- Download the gauge from this repo.
- Unzip it
- Double-click on the resulting .XUL file and it will install and run
LICENCE AGREEMENTS:
Copyright 2023 Dean Beedell
In addition to the GNU General Public Licence please be aware that you may use any of my own imagery in your own creations but commercially only with my permission. In all other non-commercial cases I require a credit to the original artist using my name or one of my pseudonyms and a link to my site. With regard to the commercial use of incorporated images, permission and a licence would need to be obtained from the original owner and creator, ie. me.
