I love this widget. If you could, could you please send me an
e-mail at icktoofay@REMOVETHISyahoo.com (Remove REMOVETHIS),
and summerize these files? I don't get the DLL. And how do
you make it so that when you start the widget for the first time, it extracts to:
C:Documents%20and%20Settings[USERNAME]Local%20Settings
Application%20DataPixoriaKonfabulator?
Also, What language is the DLL written in?
Please email the answers to me.

Ankit,

I will look into this. It's on my todo list, but I've spent the last few weeks doing updates to most of my existing Widgets and I've just started a new project today which I want to get finished before I revisit this problem. Unfortunately I'm finding the more Widgets I create, the less I am able to create new ones because there's always something that needs doing with the existing ones. Hopefully it won't be too long until I get around to this.

-William

No I don't think that's the problem. I was talking about why it gives me only multiples of six for results. How does it calculate the words per minute in 5 character mode if you have the interval set to less than a minute?

Ankit,

The COM DLL is written in Visual Basic 6, but that's actually not where the calculation is done - the DLL is dumb - it simply tells the Widget when a key is pressed and whether that key is a whitespace character or not (it doesn't reveal the actual key pressed).

The calculation is all done in the file script.js. The way it works is by adding a date object to an array whenever a word (or in CPM or 5 character mode a character) is typed. Those date objects then fall off the back o…f the array as they become 60 seconds old (or however long the period set in the preferences is).

To calculate the number of words in 5 character mode, the length of that array is divided by 5. What it sounds like is perhapes I'm not counting spaces when you type them. I'll take a look at this and see if I can work out what's going on.

-William More

Oh and if anyone cares, i've maxed at 102 with my settings :-D