Gkaruk's Technological Blog

The new version of the widget now has these enhancements as requested by users of wjdLastPosts v0.1.

• Added colour picker for Column Headings and Item Posts
• Decreased alpha to make colours stronger for LCD monitors
• Added Refresh button
• Fixed bug with not storing refresh interval
• Increased UpdatedBy column position
• Added clickable forum posts

If your new to widgets, especially the dotWidget based ones.  Head over to the main dotWidget site and take alook, you wont be disappointed.  You'll be surprised how much you missed having those little extras running.

You can grab this new release of wjdLastPosts here.

Taken a while, but thanks to the incredible help from the K23 Team and a small tweak they implemented on their website.  I have finally released the first release of the wjdLastPosts widget.

The widget mirrors the Latest Forum Posts section of the main dotWidget (k23 productions) website.

If your new to widgets, especially the dotWidget based ones.  Head over to the main dotWidget site and take alook, you wont be disappointed.  You'll be surprised how much you missed having those little extras running.

For my first widget, wjdLastPosts you can grab it here.

Im now working with Stan on migrating his dotWidget code from VB6 to C# Express 2005.  Although Express is currently in beta, by the time Microsofts release candidate on Express comes out we should have all the code converted, up and running.

So far I have the code migrated to C# and and currently trying to fix a missing reference to the GDIPlus library.  Microsoft states the library is install on WinXP and Win2kSP3 as standard, yet my WinXPProSP2 machine will not allow a reference made to the Dll (in VB6 that is).

However, as most of you know the GDIPlus API is access through the Sytem.Drawing component off the .Net framework.  Therefore I will be spending most of this week migrating the code to use this component instead of the custom classes which currently exist under the VB6 source.

I recommend heading over to K23 Productions and trying out the current version.