Steampunk Moon_Phase_III widget, written in Javascript and XML for the Yahoo Widget (Konfabulator) Engine. Created for XP, Vista, Win7, 8, 10+ as well as the Apple Mac.
This widget is an attractive steampunk Yahoo widget for your desktop. The Steam Punk Yahoo Widget for your Windows/Mac desktop, a fully working yahoo widget and it can be moved around your desktop looking very steampunk indeed. It displays a beautiful moon globe that you can resize at will and that will display through the phases according to any date supplied.
It is shown here on top of the steampunk orrery widget, the reason for this is that the orrery is the natural home for the moon phase widget. When the orrery runs, it controls the moon phase widget, passing the dates it is calculating to the moon widget for it to display the current moon phase. The orrery places the moon phase widget on the correct location for the screen and makes it appear when it is required.
Right clicking will bring up a menu of options. One option is the player settings where you can set the default player for the widget to use.You can also select a variety of options for playing incuding selecting an audio CD.
Double-clicking on the widget will cause a personalised Windows application to fire up. The first time you run it there will be no assigned function and so it will state as such and then pop up the preferences so that you can enter the command of your choice. The widget takes command line-style commands for windows.
All javascript widgets need an engine to function, in this case the widget uses the Yahoo Widget Konfabulator engine. The engine interprets the javascript and creates the widget according to the XML description and using the images you provide.
Built using:
RJTextEd Advanced Editor https://www.rj-texted.se/
Adobe Photoshop CS ver 8.0 (2003) https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop/free-trial-download.html
Yahoo Widgets SDK: engine (Konfabulator), debugger & documentation
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.
To run this widget properly you will also need:
1. Steampunk Orrery Timekeeper Widget here; yereverluvinuncleber.deviantar…
2. Steampunk Underwidget here: yereverluvinuncleber.deviantar…
o Installation of the yahoo widget SDK runtime engine
Yahoo widget engine for Windows - http://g6auc.me.uk/ywidgets_sdk_setup.exe
Yahoo widget engine for Mac - https://rickyromero.com/widgets/downloads/yahoo-widgets-4.5.2.dmg
Yahoo Widgets SDK: engine (Konfabulator), debugger & documentation
Running the widget using a javascript engine frees javascript from running only within the captivity of a browser, you will now be able to run these widgets on your Windows desktop as long as you have the correct widget engine installed.
- Install yahoo widget SDK runtime engine
- Download the gauge from this repo.
- Unzip it
- Double-click on the resulting .KON file and it will install and run
- Install yahoo widget SDK runtime engine for Mac
- Download the gauge from this repo.
- Unzip it
- For all all recent versions of Mac OS/X including Sierra, edit the following file:
com.yahoo.widgetengine.plist which is in /Users/xxx/Library/Preferences. Look for these lines:
DockOpen
false
Change to false if it is true.
- Double-click on the widgets .KON file and it will install and run
Wit these instructions you should be able to start Yahoo! Widgets and the menubar item should appear. Widgets can then be started from the menubar or by double-clicking on the KON file in the usual way.
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.