Eye Candy
Its not what you think!
Eye Candy is a simple Widget for periodically downloading a picture from the web. You can park Eye Candy at the top or bottom of your screen. It will periodically download an image from a URL that you specifysay a weather radar or a web cam.
Eye Candy keeps the image neatly out of sight until you want to refer to it. Just click on the candy to display the image, either full-size or scaled to the same width as the candy. Another click tucks the image away. Cli… More
Eye Candy is a simple Widget for periodically downloading a picture from the web. You can park Eye Candy at the top or bottom of your screen. It will periodically download an image from a URL that you specifysay a weather radar or a web cam.
Eye Candy keeps the image neatly out of sight until you want to refer to it. Just click on the candy to display the image, either full-size or scaled to the same width as the candy. Another click tucks the image away. Cli… More
Current Version: 1.0
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November 10, 2004 · version 1.0 Curt CliftonIt looks like changing /bin/sh to sh probably isn't sufficient to get this running safely on Windows. Line 35 of onLoad.js calls the "file" command to make sure the downloaded file really is an image. Is there a easy way to test that on Windows?
Mike, Konfabulator doesn't seem to support stopping animation of gifs. You could suggest that on the forums. Also, please feel free to post your Windows version of the widget to the Gallery (with a "based on Eye Candy for Ma… More
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November 10, 2004 · version 1.0 Curt CliftonThanks, Mike. I don't think that download curl should be necessary. Konfabulator for Windows includes basic support for a variety of Unix commands, curl among them. A Windows-using friend indicates that changing the call to /bin/sh to instead just call sh is sufficient to make the Widget work. I'll verify that this change doesn't break the widget on Mac OS and then post an update for both versions.
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November 10, 2004 · version 1.0 MikeI hacked Eye Candy to work on Windows but I won't post a new version because I wasn't sure what to do with the OS X/Unix specific code so I merely commented it out. Not clean, but it works for now.
Here's what to do:
- Install cURL if you don't already have it. Download the win32 binary from http://curl.haxx.se/latest.cgi?curl=win32-nossl , unzip the archive somewhere and add that directory to your PATH variable. In Windows XP you can access the path at Control Panel -> … More
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November 10, 2004 · version 1.0 MikeI hacked Eye Candy to work on Windows but I won't post a new version because I wasn't sure what to do with the OS X/Unix specific code so I merely commented it out. Not clean, but it works for now.
Here's what to do:
- Install cURL if you don't already have it. Download the win32 binary from http://curl.haxx.se/latest.cgi?curl=win32-nossl , unzip the archive somewhere and add that directory to your PATH variable. In Windows XP you can access the path at Control Panel -> … More
