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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ardalla Noos

Tue, 9 Dec 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Thanks for the widget! This is great!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by echo 456

Thu, 4 Dec 2009 20:20:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Edited by: Blue Wraith on 23/09/2008 14:53:28
Originally by: echo 456
hey i was wondering,
when you put your details in how long will it take to process it
because ive tried everything about 3 times and its not working
i let it load for about 10 minutes and nothing happened,

cheers
You should see results almost immediately after you flip the widget back over.

I hope you didn't put your game username and password in the widget. That goes clear-text over the internet to the Eve server (clear-text is the only protocol they allow) and can be sniffed. If you did, I would change your password ASAP.

You can obtain an API Key from the eve website here. The numeric API User ID and the alpha-numeric API Key are what the widget uses to get your information from the Eve servers.

yea i put in api and user id limited right? well i dont know what is rong with it then...

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by vonPhil

Thu, 13 Nov 2009 11:18:00 +0000

Oh it's look work again
very nice
o/

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by vonPhil

Thu, 13 Nov 2009 06:21:00 +0000

Hi Blue Wraith
thx a lot for this very great Widget
I much prefer it to Evemon (yes it's possible to run window on a Mac :p)
unfortunatly since last EVE patch (Quantum Rise Expansion), ESM doesn't work anymore
"EVE backen data base temporarily disabled" :((
is there any solution?
Thx for help

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 26 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Originally by: Rakadar
Have the same problem...put my id and api key (from th elimited api key) into it but nothing happens...when i close the widget and open it up again it says "could not connect to eve api"

p.s.: in the eve api access log is no entry so seems the wiget has some kind of problem to log-in... :(

pp.s: sorry, was a problem with my firewall...is working now

ehm works now (still says couldn't connect but loads data) but doesn't display the char image...only the missing-image "?"

The Eve Image Server was down for a while. However ESM detects broken images and tries to fix them periodically. So, when the server comes back up, your image will eventually update to what the Eve Image Server has (the exclamation point in your case).

When you have a Couldn't Connect message on the screen after showing the Dashboard, that just means that at some point, while ESM was in the background, it tried to connect and couldn't. It has probably since connected and the error message is irrelevant. I'll try to fix that for the next release.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rakadar

Fri, 26 Sep 2009 07:15:00 +0000

Edited by: Rakadar on 26/09/2008 07:17:16
Have the same problem...put my id and api key (from th elimited api key) into it but nothing happens...when i close the widget and open it up again it says "could not connect to eve api"

p.s.: in the eve api access log is no entry so seems the wiget has some kind of problem to log-in... :(

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 23 Sep 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Edited by: Blue Wraith on 23/09/2008 14:53:28

Originally by: echo 456
hey i was wondering,
when you put your details in how long will it take to process it
because ive tried everything about 3 times and its not working
i let it load for about 10 minutes and nothing happened,

cheers

You should see results almost immediately after you flip the widget back over.

I hope you didn't put your game username and password in the widget. That goes clear-text over the internet to the Eve server (clear-text is the only protocol they allow) and can be sniffed. If you did, I would change your password ASAP.

You can obtain an API Key from the eve website here. The numeric API User ID and the alpha-numeric API Key are what the widget uses to get your information from the Eve servers.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 23 Sep 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Edited by: Blue Wraith on 23/09/2008 14:43:51

Originally by: Sapphire Mote
Great addition to the OS X arsenal ... thanks, Blue Wraith! I've added your widget to the list of tools and resources at Macs in Eve.

What's next on your dev schedule?

Thanks for the link.

I don't have anything for Eve on my dev schedule. If I were to do something else for Eve, it would probably be a web-based ship fitter and skill planner (that could import from EveMon). Web-based so you could access it anywhere.

However, I don't really play anymore (except to change skills). So, I don't have much enthusiasm to create it.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Seragon

Tue, 16 Sep 2009 19:33:00 +0000

This is awesome! I needed something small and light to help feed my addiction at work. Thanks a lot!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by echo 456

Mon, 15 Sep 2009 08:48:00 +0000

hey i was wondering,
when you put your details in how long will it take to process it
because ive tried everything about 3 times and its not working
i let it load for about 10 minutes and nothing happened,

cheers

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Sapphire Mote

Wed, 10 Sep 2009 10:37:00 +0000

Great addition to the OS X arsenal ... thanks, Blue Wraith! I've added your widget to the list of tools and resources at Macs in Eve.

What's next on your dev schedule?

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Just Launched: Macs in EVE at http://eve-applecore.com

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 8 Sep 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Originally by: Galder Occulta
Originally by: Blue Wraith
Originally by: Tilanali Raveneyes
I've installed it but am having a problem. It keeps asking me for the User ID, even though it's there. For some reason it doesn't see it. If I go to the back of the widget through the 'i' symbol, it shows up. Just isn't seeing it on the flip side.
Try this: remove the user id from the back, flip it over to the front, flip it over to the back again, and re-enter the user id. Flip back over again and see if that fixes it.

If that doesn't work, email me a screenshot of where it asks for your user id. My email is on the website. I'm curious about this, because aside from the back of the widget, it should not prompt you for a user id anywhere.
Yeah, I'm having the same problem. The patch must have changed something.

Tilanali's problem was solved by reinstalling the widget. I must have introduced a bug that hosed up the prefs in the new version under certain circumstances. It's working fine for me, but several have had issues like this one. If you're having an issue, then re-install the widget, and if that doesn't work, log out and back in, delete the preferences file ([Home]/Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist), and then start the widget. That should start you with a blank slate.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Galder Occulta

Thu, 4 Sep 2009 17:10:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Originally by: Tilanali Raveneyes
I've installed it but am having a problem. It keeps asking me for the User ID, even though it's there. For some reason it doesn't see it. If I go to the back of the widget through the 'i' symbol, it shows up. Just isn't seeing it on the flip side.
Try this: remove the user id from the back, flip it over to the front, flip it over to the back again, and re-enter the user id. Flip back over again and see if that fixes it.

If that doesn't work, email me a screenshot of where it asks for your user id. My email is on the website. I'm curious about this, because aside from the back of the widget, it should not prompt you for a user id anywhere.

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. The patch must have changed something.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Toodleloo

Wed, 3 Sep 2009 13:35:00 +0000

new patch seems to have broken the skills monitor widget communication with api - getting could not connect to api message.

tried reinstalling, making new api's for my 2 characters, no joy.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Orontes Ovasi

Thu, 28 Aug 2009 06:09:00 +0000

Being able to look at skill training time on iPhone...priceless
Thanks BW

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Toodleloo

Tue, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:00 +0000

thanks Blue Wraith - grateful mac-head..
two instances of the wid for two accounts ftw...

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 26 Aug 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Originally by: Belmarduk
Thx Blue Wraith
Good work

Thanks!

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 26 Aug 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Originally by: Tilanali Raveneyes
I've installed it but am having a problem. It keeps asking me for the User ID, even though it's there. For some reason it doesn't see it. If I go to the back of the widget through the 'i' symbol, it shows up. Just isn't seeing it on the flip side.

Try this: remove the user id from the back, flip it over to the front, flip it over to the back again, and re-enter the user id. Flip back over again and see if that fixes it.

If that doesn't work, email me a screenshot of where it asks for your user id. My email is on the website. I'm curious about this, because aside from the back of the widget, it should not prompt you for a user id anywhere.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Belmarduk

Tue, 26 Aug 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Thx Blue Wraith
Good work
CCP Please give us casual players a Skill-Queue !

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Tilanali Raveneyes

Mon, 25 Aug 2009 16:18:00 +0000

I've installed it but am having a problem. It keeps asking me for the User ID, even though it's there. For some reason it doesn't see it. If I go to the back of the widget through the 'i' symbol, it shows up. Just isn't seeing it on the flip side.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 15 Aug 2009 16:10:00 +0000

Originally by: sehnsucht
Originally by: Blue Wraith

Coda - used for v2 (syntax highlighter) when I just couldn't take vim anymore

Have you looked into syntax highlighting for vim? I used vim for several years of PHP coding (now I use vim as well as the Zend IDE) and I couldn't have done it without the syntax highlighting.
Usually all you have to do is put a "syntax on" in your .vimrc file. You might also have to have something like "export TERM=ansi" in your .bashrc to get colours working.

I believe I used syntax highlighting in vim, but I couldn't take the vim interface anymore, since I'd been using a graphical editor throughout the day at work. VIM is great, don't get me wrong. I've written a LOT of stuff in VIM, including most of ESM v2.x. I just got used to being able to double-click a word to select it and paste over it, etc., so I switched to something graphical. Now I'm using Dashcode, which allows you to debug and other cool stuff.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 15 Aug 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Originally by: Infestate
Apparently it's limited to 7 chars? It won't let me enter the full length of my userID...

This would make the second time that CCP has increased the size of the API User ID.

I have removed the max cap altogether as of v2.2.3.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 15 Aug 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Originally by: Ayr Chron
any chance that you will make it opensource?

ESM is open source, and you can view the source at any time by going to your Home Directory/Library/Widgets.
Then right-click on Eve Skill Monitor.wdgt and select Show Package Contents.
In there is all the source, images, etc.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 15 Aug 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Updated ESM to v2.2.3.

Added the much-requested Mute button for the "Skill Training Completed" sound. The Mute button is per account. So if you don't want to hear any sound, mute each account. But if you want to be alerted for a certain account, you still can.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Feek

Mon, 4 Aug 2009 14:50:00 +0000

I also got deafened by the skill completion sound but rather than delete it completely, I just reduced the volume dramatically!

Good widget, thanks.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by sehnsucht

Sun, 3 Aug 2009 22:46:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith

Coda - used for v2 (syntax highlighter) when I just couldn't take vim anymore

Have you looked into syntax highlighting for vim? I used vim for several years of PHP coding (now I use vim as well as the Zend IDE) and I couldn't have done it without the syntax highlighting.
Usually all you have to do is put a "syntax on" in your .vimrc file. You might also have to have something like "export TERM=ansi" in your .bashrc to get colours working.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Hayaishi

Sun, 3 Aug 2009 15:39:00 +0000

could be nice if someone was to make a google gadget for this aswell. any coders familiar with it?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by J Kunjeh

Sat, 2 Aug 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Wow, this is great! I play on a PC but my wife is on a Mac; she'll certainly appreciate this.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Tara Nighthawk

Fri, 1 Aug 2009 17:42:00 +0000

This is superb.

Thanks very much.

I assume I can just run multiple instances in my Dashboard, one for each ID?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by CaseusFeles

Thu, 24 Jul 2009 09:31:00 +0000

This is excellent. How long before we get an iPhone app?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Infestate

Mon, 21 Jul 2009 14:50:00 +0000

Apparently it's limited to 7 chars? It won't let me enter the full length of my userID...

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ayr Chron

Tue, 8 Jul 2009 08:03:00 +0000

Edited by: Ayr Chron on 08/07/2008 08:03:57
great work!

any chance that you will make it opensource?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Devon Mes'n

Wed, 18 Jun 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Thanks alot!

This widget rocks :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Jinx Barker

Wed, 11 Jun 2009 02:17:00 +0000

Originally by: Kenta Kobayashi
Hi,

Great tool. I'm having authentication issues since the newest patch was installed; has something changed behind the scenes, or is this a case of serendipity?

API is down.. as it usually is after a major patch, relax, take some deep breaths... and it will be up, at some point.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kenta Kobayashi

Wed, 11 Jun 2009 01:42:00 +0000

Hi,

Great tool. I'm having authentication issues since the newest patch was installed; has something changed behind the scenes, or is this a case of serendipity?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Star Hunter

Fri, 23 May 2009 10:05:00 +0000

Installed the widget.
Posting just to say big thanks.
Useful.
Good-looking.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Panda Propaganda

Fri, 16 May 2009 19:15:00 +0000

This is an extremely intelligent and useful widget, thanks for it. Worth a bump.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Jinx Barker

Fri, 16 May 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Originally by: Rogue 2
Also, ESM prevents my Mac from sleeping (presumably because it periodically checks for an API update). Any chance of increasing the time between updates?

I have not noticed that particular issue, my iMac goes to sleep as scheduled, and wakes up as normal. With the exception of the Dashboard popping up if the skill finished while it was asleep.

Originally by: Rogue 2
Go to your Home directory, then the following path: Library/Widgets. Right-click on "Eve Skill Monitor.wdgt" then "Show Package Contents." Double-click on the "Sounds" folder and delete the "SkillTrained.mp3" inside. You will need to restart before you can "empty" the file from the trash.

Thank You! Worked like a charm.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Septimus Nonentius

Tue, 13 May 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Just installed it - thanks a lot!

Any plans to do all that funky other stuff Evemon does? (I'd tell me to eff off if I were me, mind ...) :-)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rogue 2

Fri, 25 Apr 2009 21:26:00 +0000

Edited by: Rogue 2 on 25/04/2008 21:26:10
I replied 3 posts above yours with how to disable the sound...

Also, ESM prevents my Mac from sleeping (presumably because it periodically checks for an API update). Any chance of increasing the time between updates?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ralumos

Thu, 24 Apr 2009 21:05:00 +0000

Yeah my Dashboard isn't on autostart and never has been. I keep my laptop on mute 90% of the time, but if it isn't one time, I can't use my laptop until I'm in a situation where that noise is appropriate. That's quite a high cost for a single widget.

Can't we just have a checkbox for the sound? I'd be fine getting rid of it altogether, but I realize I might be in the minority with that.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Shin Chogan

Wed, 23 Apr 2009 11:36:00 +0000

I've recently been getting an occasional character does not belong to account error from ESM when I open my dashboard (mostly the first time - I don't have dashboard start at logon) If I click ok everything works fine - the countdown continues and skill changes are correctly reflected in ESM so I'm not sure what is going on. Anyone else seen this and is there anything I can do or is it an API problem ?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rogue 2

Sat, 12 Apr 2009 00:26:00 +0000

I notice ESM, when connected to a network, checks the API with enough frequency that it prevents the Mac from sleeping automatically. Can that be changed? Perhaps add a "manual update" for the API and set the automatic time at 30-60 minutes.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rogue 2

Sat, 12 Apr 2009 00:24:00 +0000

Edited by: Rogue 2 on 12/04/2008 00:25:08

Originally by: Jinx Barker
Well, I can live with "Skill Training Complete" message, it usually happens when I am watching Shameless, and my Sig. Other, comes into the room, with a sour puss and tells me that my "evian skill training completed itself, again...."

Try this. Go to your Home directory, the the following path: Library/Widgets. Right-click on "Eve Skill Monitor.wdgt" the "Show Package Contents." Double-click on the "Sounds" folder and delete the "SkillTrained.mp3" inside. See if that helps. I just did it but I don't have a skill set to complete training for another 30 mins, so I'm not sure if it will just move along with no sound (expected behavior) or crash.

Quick follow-up: The MP3 will likely not be "empty trash"able. You may need to restart.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Belmarduk

Wed, 9 Apr 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Originally by: cillisia
yeah i've had the odd "skill training completed" blast out of my macbook in my office before, it tends to be quite embarrasing :P I usually have my macbook muted now because of this

ARRRGH - Is there anyway to deactivate it????
If that went off here Id be in trouble........
The widget should NOT flash or do anything !
Thx Belmarduk
CCP Please give us casual players a Skill-Queue !

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Jinx Barker

Wed, 9 Apr 2009 02:47:00 +0000

Well, I can live with "Skill Training Complete" message, it usually happens when I am watching Shameless, and my Sig. Other, comes into the room, with a sour puss and tells me that my "evian skill training completed itself, again...."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by cillisia

Mon, 7 Apr 2009 13:42:00 +0000

yeah i've had the odd "skill training completed" blast out of my macbook in my office before, it tends to be quite embarrasing :P I usually have my macbook muted now because of this

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 25 Mar 2009 13:04:00 +0000

Originally by: Rottenator
Originally by: Blue Wraith
This latter part, you can do w/o ESM's help: Take Dashboard off auto-start.

I don't have the dashboard in autostart. But if I wake my iBook from sleep my dashboard will automatically open and ESM will tell me that my skill finished training. This all happens before I can type my pw to unlock my laptop and thus am not able to mute it before ESM starts speaking up.

Happily I almost always have my volume muted and not having a skill finishing somewhere when I'm not able to access my PC to change it (sorry I still have one of those ancient PPC procs).

Ah, so the laptop was asleep. I'm not really sure how to tell if the laptop just woke from sleep. If there was a system command that could tell me this, I could implement a 5 min wait before sounding the alert or something. I'll add this to the list.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rottenator

Tue, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
This latter part, you can do w/o ESM's help: Take Dashboard off auto-start.

I don't have the dashboard in autostart. But if I wake my iBook from sleep my dashboard will automatically open and ESM will tell me that my skill finished training. This all happens before I can type my pw to unlock my laptop and thus am not able to mute it before ESM starts speaking up.

Happily I almost always have my volume muted and not having a skill finishing somewhere when I'm not able to access my PC to change it (sorry I still have one of those ancient PPC procs).

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Druadan

Mon, 24 Mar 2009 22:06:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Were you looking at VSIZE or RSIZE? RSIZE is the important number. VSIZE is Dashboard's over-guesstimate of what memory it needs.

Real size, yeah, not virtual. The amount of space in physical memory.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 24 Mar 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Originally by: Druadan
Originally by: Druadan
I just noticed the Used Memory readout for iStat was showing an unusually high readout for what I'm doing (watching a low-res video), so I popped open Activity Monitor to see what's using memory.

The widget is using 109MB of memory at the moment, and it's increasing every time I open the Dashboard. Leakage methinks?

(Also, what language, and IDE, did you write the widget in, out of interest...?)

-Dru

Update on this. Approx. two days later (no reboot) and the memory usage is back down to 5MB, so it seems to have collected its garbage properly now.

The widget doesn't use any plugins, so it is purely DHTML / AJAX, with Javascript being the programming language. Personally, I view Javascript as a terrible tool, but it's the best (only) tool available for the job. Javascript does expect auto garbage collection (probably the WebKit framework handles this).

There are various stages in the ESM's run cycle that may consume a bit of memory, like downloading and parsing all skills (once a month), or downloading and parsing the character sheet (every hour or so). If the garbage truck takes a while to get there, I could see how that could add up. Still, 100 meg seems a bit high. A single DashboardClient process services multiple (maybe 8?) widgets, so hopefully some of that was other widgets as well? Were you looking at VSIZE or RSIZE? RSIZE is the important number. VSIZE is Dashboard's over-guesstimate of what memory it needs.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 24 Mar 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Originally by: Ralumos
A small story for you:

Ralumos is sitting in his Systems Administration II class, and there's about an hour left. Boredom is setting in, so he decides to get out his trusty MacBook and surf a little.

He opens the lid, gets ready to type in his password, when suddenly the boring silence of the classroom is pierced by the deafeningly loud cry of "SKILL TRAINING COMPLETED."

All heads turn, and the professor stops speaking. Ral shrinks into his chair and says "Sorry...turning volume off." In the back of the room one student exclaims "EVE ONLINE, AWESOME!"

LOL! That's a funny story.

Quote:
I'd really like an option to turn off the skill ending notification, or at the very least make it wait until Dashboard is actually activated.

This latter part, you can do w/o ESM's help: Take Dashboard off auto-start. In fact, I had done this so long ago, that I took it for granted and falsely assumed it was the default. I don't even have a Dashboard icon on my dock anymore (I use the keyboard to activate it.). Anyway, I believe you can turn it off by going to System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items tab and removing it there.

In your case, I believe disabling Dashboard from auto-starting is the best practice. Even if ESM currently had an NSFW mode, you would have had to plan ahead and turn it on before class.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 24 Mar 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Originally by: Rottenator
The "total skillpoints" attribute shows how many you have at this moment, right? And not what you will have after the skill completes, or am I totally wrong here?

The short answer is that ESM shows your total skill points, not counting what is currently training. This should be the same as what the in-game total skill points shows.

Whenever ESM downloads your skill sheet (every hour or so), it goes through all your skills and sums the SP for each. When a skill is training, it doesn't accumulate skill points on your skill sheet. It's in a "training limbo" of sorts. It's not until the skill finishes or you change to a different skill that the trained points show up on your character sheet. ESM doesn't do any extra training projections over what the game does. The total you see in ESM should be the same total you see on the char sheet.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Druadan

Tue, 18 Mar 2009 05:09:00 +0000

Originally by: Druadan
I just noticed the Used Memory readout for iStat was showing an unusually high readout for what I'm doing (watching a low-res video), so I popped open Activity Monitor to see what's using memory.

The widget is using 109MB of memory at the moment, and it's increasing every time I open the Dashboard. Leakage methinks?

(Also, what language, and IDE, did you write the widget in, out of interest...?)

-Dru

Update on this. Approx. two days later (no reboot) and the memory usage is back down to 5MB, so it seems to have collected its garbage properly now.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rottenator

Sun, 16 Mar 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Edited by: Rottenator on 16/03/2008 19:48:10

Originally by: Rottenator
It looks like that my "total skillpoints" attribute is not updating.

Seem to have been resolved, it was wrong ingame too, until I changed skill, now it works flawlessly again.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Druadan

Sun, 16 Mar 2009 04:12:00 +0000

I just noticed the Used Memory readout for iStat was showing an unusually high readout for what I'm doing (watching a low-res video), so I popped open Activity Monitor to see what's using memory.

The widget is using 109MB of memory at the moment, and it's increasing every time I open the Dashboard. Leakage methinks?

(Also, what language, and IDE, did you write the widget in, out of interest...?)

-Dru
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ralumos

Sat, 15 Mar 2009 21:26:00 +0000

A small story for you:

Ralumos is sitting in his Systems Administration II class, and there's about an hour left. Boredom is setting in, so he decides to get out his trusty MacBook and surf a little.

He opens the lid, gets ready to type in his password, when suddenly the boring silence of the classroom is pierced by the deafeningly loud cry of "SKILL TRAINING COMPLETED."

All heads turn, and the professor stops speaking. Ral shrinks into his chair and says "Sorry...turning volume off." In the back of the room one student exclaims "EVE ONLINE, AWESOME!"

Moral of the story: I'd really like an option to turn off the skill ending notification, or at the very least make it wait until Dashboard is actually activated. I normally keep my volume on mute, but I can't change it until I've logged in, and the widget does its damage before that.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rottenator

Sat, 15 Mar 2009 10:16:00 +0000

The "total skillpoints" attribute shows how many you have at this moment, right? And not what you will have after the skill completes, or am I totally wrong here?

Because it looks like that my "total skillpoints" attribute is not updating. It is still the same as two days ago (maybe even the same as before the patch, but I'm not sure about that). And I haven't switched skills in between.

Does it has anything to do with the API or the widget? I haven't tried evemon or checking ingame because I didn't have time yet.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 14 Mar 2009 01:26:00 +0000

Originally by: Li Bao
Ok, supplement to my above post:

I just had a skill finish, and the audio notification was a somewhat unwelcome surprise. Something like a "Work Mode" option, disabling both the portraits and the audio would be very nice.

I suppose I could make an NSFW mode. I'll add it to the list.
http://www.cornerspeed.com/kasey/esm/Please visit your user settings to re-enable images.[/url]
"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Li Bao

Mon, 10 Mar 2009 19:43:00 +0000

Ok, supplement to my above post:

I just had a skill finish, and the audio notification was a somewhat unwelcome surprise. Something like a "Work Mode" option, disabling both the portraits and the audio would be very nice.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Li Bao

Mon, 10 Mar 2009 19:24:00 +0000

This is quite nice, thanks. My only thing is, I'm wondering if you could add an option to not display the portrait. I use this on my work computer, and not that anyone is really going to mind, but something even less distinctive couldn't hurt.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by William Darkk

Sat, 8 Mar 2009 07:24:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Originally by: William Darkk
Edited by: William Darkk on 06/03/2008 16:53:45
I recall seeing somewhere a picture of the widget showing multiple accounts/characters - is that a planned feature, or should I just run multiple copies?

EDIT: Apparently there's some kind of connecter that's supposed to link multiple instances of the widget, but I don't see it.
To monitor multiple accounts, just plop another widget on the dashboard.

ESM v2 was initially going to be a multi-account widget. I saw that a single-account widget was going to be the fastest way to get a working widget, so I took that path first. A single-account widget also has certain advantages for a crowded dashboard (being able to place the widgets other than vertically).

ESM could be converted to a multi-account widget, but I really don't see a compelling reason to do so just yet. The only thing I could think of that you can do with a multi-account widget but not with multiple single-account ones is sort the widgets by skill finish order. Probably not everyone would even like that feature.

I'm always open for suggestions, though.

One of the pictures back in the thread shows some sort of "border" between two widgets. It appears that the widgets are aware of each other and "stuck" to each other, then displayed a border to indicate that they were stuck.

That'd be cool if you could do it.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Fri, 7 Mar 2009 11:59:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Quafe Ultra for me, please. :)

What? You pass up an offer of alcomahol? Guybrush Threepwood weeps for you...
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 6 Mar 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Originally by: Kashmar Akichu
Originally by: Blue Wraith
Additions:
Clickable 12 or 24 hr time format for the Skill Finish data. Click on the time to toggle between them.

Yay! Grog is on me...

Quafe Ultra for me, please. :)

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 6 Mar 2009 19:03:00 +0000

Originally by: William Darkk
Edited by: William Darkk on 06/03/2008 16:53:45
I recall seeing somewhere a picture of the widget showing multiple accounts/characters - is that a planned feature, or should I just run multiple copies?

EDIT: Apparently there's some kind of connecter that's supposed to link multiple instances of the widget, but I don't see it.

To monitor multiple accounts, just plop another widget on the dashboard.

ESM v2 was initially going to be a multi-account widget. I saw that a single-account widget was going to be the fastest way to get a working widget, so I took that path first. A single-account widget also has certain advantages for a crowded dashboard (being able to place the widgets other than vertically).

ESM could be converted to a multi-account widget, but I really don't see a compelling reason to do so just yet. The only thing I could think of that you can do with a multi-account widget but not with multiple single-account ones is sort the widgets by skill finish order. Probably not everyone would even like that feature.

I'm always open for suggestions, though.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by William Darkk

Thu, 6 Mar 2009 16:49:00 +0000

Edited by: William Darkk on 06/03/2008 16:53:45
I recall seeing somewhere a picture of the widget showing multiple accounts/characters - is that a planned feature, or should I just run multiple copies?

EDIT: Apparently there's some kind of connecter that's supposed to link multiple instances of the widget, but I don't see it.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Thu, 6 Mar 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Additions:
Clickable 12 or 24 hr time format for the Skill Finish data. Click on the time to toggle between them.

Yay! Grog is on me...
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 4 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Version 2.2.2 now available.

Additions:
Clickable 12 or 24 hr time format for the Skill Finish data. Click on the time to toggle between them.

Fixes:
Minor UI tweak to actually center the OK button on warning dialogs. It's been annoying me for some time, and I finally got around to fixing it.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 4 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000

Originally by: Rottenator
Maybe you should update your first post it still says 2.2.0 is the latest version.

Updated the main post.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Rottenator

Mon, 3 Mar 2009 12:52:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith

ESM v2.2.1 now available.

Maybe you should update your first post it still says 2.2.0 is the latest version.

Great widget though, really waiting on the cocoa app. Unfortunately I cannot program that much, but testing I will do when a complete app is released!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Sat, 1 Mar 2009 11:13:00 +0000

Lovely! I'll give it a spin right away.
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 29 Feb 2009 22:36:00 +0000

Edited by: Blue Wraith on 29/02/2008 22:37:14
ESM v2.2.1 now available.

Fixes:
Fixed 12 PM displayed as 12 AM.
Fixed (hopefully) API Key changes. If you change API Key info on the back, it should now take effect immediately rather than continuing to display your old info.

Let me know if any other problems arise. Thanks to those that pointed out the above bugs.

"Eve is a ~~PVP~~ griefing game."

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Solra Wolfe

Sat, 9 Feb 2009 20:05:00 +0000

My new favourite widget! Next time I'm in game I will send you some iskies!

Thanks Dude!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Serkis

Tue, 5 Feb 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Originally by: Johnathon Desoto
what would you, or anybody else, say to developing a Vista sidebar gadget that could do the samething, or is there one already?

Check this out Vista users.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by L Mariachi

Tue, 5 Feb 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith

Try removing the widgets from the Dashboard, deleting the plist in /Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist, then logging out and back in (to restart Dashboard).

Ah, restarting Dashboard was the key, thanks.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by senecti

Sun, 3 Feb 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Thank you for this!

Now I never have to go back to windows!!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Sun, 3 Feb 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Originally by: L Mariachi
Thanks for this!

After having my API key changed, I keep getting the cached API key authentication failure. Deleting the preference plist results in the previous key showing up on the widget's backside; entering the new key still results in the failure. Where would it be caching the old key?

I still haven't got around to checking this out. Which .plist file did you delete? Deleting that file should take out every bit of information. Something could be leftover in Dashboard's internals.

Try removing the widgets from the Dashboard, deleting the plist in /Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist, then logging out and back in (to restart Dashboard).

If that doesn't nuke your preferences, then my guess would be there's something wrong with Dashboard.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by L Mariachi

Wed, 30 Jan 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Thanks for this!

After having my API key changed, I keep getting the cached API key authentication failure. Deleting the preference plist results in the previous key showing up on the widget's backside; entering the new key still results in the failure. Where would it be caching the old key?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 15 Jan 2009 19:17:00 +0000

Originally by: Kashmar Akichu
CCP is slacking badly.. I've played my main for almost 3 months now, and I'm still a "!"...

At this point, I would contact support on this. It certainly should have showed up by now.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Mon, 14 Jan 2009 21:44:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
As far as the picture issue, that only means your picture has not yet been copied to the external Eve Image Server. It will take some time (hopefully less than a week) for it to get there and then you will be able to see it.

CCP is slacking badly.. I've played my main for almost 3 months now, and I'm still a "!"...
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Genia Meda

Mon, 14 Jan 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Edited by: Genia Meda on 14/01/2008 21:43:34
EDIT: Why do all my posts suddenly default to my alt?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by mgdmp5

Wed, 9 Jan 2009 02:33:00 +0000

Thank you that answers my question perfectly, and once again this widget has to be my favorite one on my dashboard :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Edited by: Blue Wraith on 08/01/2008 22:28:02

Originally by: mgdmp5
thank you i love this widget but how long is does it take to update to a new skill if u change your skill before it finishes?

The simple answer to this question is: as soon as the data becomes available. It should be 15 mins to an hour at most.

Here's the whole answer:

As near as I can tell, there is a separate (external) game data server that the Eve website and API use that is only a copy of the actual game data. To avoid dragging down the gameplay from the database constantly copying itself to the external one, they only copy the data over to the external data server periodically; e.g. every 15 minutes or every hour or whatever.

This makes sense from a security perspective, although it's not as convenient as having up to the minute data.

Each time ESM fetches data from the Eve API, the API tells it when new data should be available. ESM waits until then to get data again. If it tried any more frequently, it would get the same cached data as before, regardless of what happened in game, so there's no use in updating more often.

Hope that answers your question. :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by mgdmp5

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 21:12:00 +0000

thank you i love this widget but how long is does it take to update to a new skill if u change your skill before it finishes?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Zojoten

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 20:45:00 +0000

you rock. thanks.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 19:15:00 +0000

Wow, that's cool that the widget got linked from MacWorld. :)

As far as the picture issue, that only means your picture has not yet been copied to the external Eve Image Server. It will take some time (hopefully less than a week) for it to get there and then you will be able to see it.

Glad you like the widget. :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by SoleDeo Gloria

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 17:26:00 +0000

I think this is a wonderful widget as well. I am having one issue - my pic does not display - just the large !

is there something I need to configure on my end?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Micovoy Lavoye

Tue, 8 Jan 2009 03:39:00 +0000

That so great! I find it today after reading the MacWorld article. Best thing since sliced bread!

Thank you Blue Wraith

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 7 Jan 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Originally by: Kashmar Akichu
Seems like the file was kinda locked because if I updated the API-key in ESM, pressed DONE and rebooted, my old info would be back in the fields.

It should be saving the new API Key. Next time I'm in the code, I'll check this out.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Thu, 3 Jan 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
After resetting your API Key, all you should have to do is put in the new information (new User Id and new API Key) on the back of the widget. If doing this does not work, then let me know so I can fix it.

If you really want to, you can nuke the preference file by deleting:

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist

where '' is your home directory. This will reset information on all ESM widgets.

That fixed it, thanks. :)
Seems a few people have had this issue now (just read all the pages of this thread).
I guess I should have opened the file first to see what info was in there..
Seems like the file was kinda locked because if I updated the API-key in ESM, pressed DONE and rebooted, my old info would be back in the fields.
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 3 Jan 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Originally by: Ikeja Lightforge
Blue Wraith,

Do you have any contact with Cel Halcyon? Is it known whether SMC has been abandoned or not? From the website, it looks like the code hasn't been touched in 4 months or so.

No, I do not know Cel. I tested SMC and posted some bug reports, but that's about it. I don't know any more than you do about it.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ikeja Lightforge

Wed, 2 Jan 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Blue Wraith,

Do you have any contact with Cel Halcyon? Is it known whether SMC has been abandoned or not? From the website, it looks like the code hasn't been touched in 4 months or so.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 31 Dec 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Originally by: Lasha Minanka
Hey there... im a mac user , very happy with your app. howver... it would be interesiting to konw how far youve gotten with plans in making the widget as close to EveMon as possible... i tried to download both this one and cocoa , but couldnt see the resemblance... ( i MIGHT very well be doing something wrong.. nt the BESt of user here... ) ..

Glad you've liked the widget so far.

Skill Monitor Cocoa (SMC) is not my app. I link to it at the head of this thread because it is interesting and looked to be the closest thing to EveMon for a Mac currently available. I did submit a feature request for skill planning in SMC, and last I heard (months ago), Cel Halcyon was working on it. It is listed in Trac as follows:

Name: Skill Planning Functionality
Priority: major
Description: Get along to reproducing EVEMon's planning functionality somehow, someday.

Quote:
What can we expect in near future regarding your apps?

( really waiting for something like evemon for Mac)

I currently have no plans to add EveMon functionality (skill planning, ore calcs, and a partridge in a pare tree) to the ESM widget. I believe that to be outside the scope of what a widget encompasses. In order to do that, a full-fledged application would probably need to be made. I am hopeful that SMC will be the application that accomplishes this.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 31 Dec 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Originally by: Kashmar Akichu
Is there a way to reset the stored data (UID and API key)? Lately I keep getting spammed with "Cached API key error" (that's another thing you should work on. ONE warning is ok, 50+ in a row after dismissing Dashboard for a few hours is REALLY annoying).

It all seems to have started after I regenerated my API-key, and now I can't get ESM to work.

After resetting your API Key, all you should have to do is put in the new information (new User Id and new API Key) on the back of the widget. If doing this does not work, then let me know so I can fix it.

If you really want to, you can nuke the preference file by deleting:

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist

where '' is your home directory. This will reset information on all ESM widgets.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 31 Dec 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Originally by: Arcon Telf
Works like a charm for me. Thanks for your great work.

Although...it would be cool if the widget could check to see if Eve is running. If a skill completes while Eve is running, then there's no need for an audible notice from the Widget (because it happens in the client). If Eve is not currently running, then the "Skill Training Complete" sound is quite useful. Your thoughts?

I thought about this, but there is also the circumstance where you have one character training a skill, but you are using a different character on that account when the first character's skill finishes. I don't currently know of a way to tell which character you are logged into.

Perhaps that is too rare of a circumstance, but worst case is an extra skill finish alert, and it avoids me having to add code. :)

If most of you do not want the extra alert, I can change it.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Lasha Minanka

Sun, 30 Dec 2009 17:53:00 +0000

Hey there... im a mac user , very happy with your app. howver... it would be interesiting to konw how far youve gotten with plans in making the widget as close to EveMon as possible... i tried to download both this one and cocoa , but couldnt see the resemblance... ( i MIGHT very well be doing something wrong.. nt the BESt of user here... ) ..

What can we expect in near future regarding your apps?

( really waiting for something like evemon for Mac)

Lasha Minanka

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Kashmar Akichu

Fri, 28 Dec 2009 23:59:00 +0000

Edited by: Kashmar Akichu on 29/12/2007 00:00:20
Is there a way to reset the stored data (UID and API key)? Lately I keep getting spammed with "Cached API key error" (that's another thing you should work on. ONE warning is ok, 50+ in a row after dismissing Dashboard for a few hours is REALLY annoying).

It all seems to have started after I regenerated my API-key, and now I can't get ESM to work.
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Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse!
Bill Gates: But there's no windows...
Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by D Jed

Fri, 28 Dec 2009 23:27:00 +0000

awesome thanks!!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Arcon Telf

Fri, 28 Dec 2009 23:14:00 +0000

Originally by: Blue Wraith
I did some limited testing, and it appears that ESM opening Dashboard will not cause you to exit Eve. Let me know if your experience is different.

Works like a charm for me. Thanks for your great work.

Although...it would be cool if the widget could check to see if Eve is running. If a skill completes while Eve is running, then there's no need for an audible notice from the Widget (because it happens in the client). If Eve is not currently running, then the "Skill Training Complete" sound is quite useful. Your thoughts?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 28 Dec 2009 20:20:00 +0000

I did some limited testing, and it appears that ESM opening Dashboard will not cause you to exit Eve. Let me know if your experience is different.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 21 Dec 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Originally by: SuperSarge
maybe I don't get it, but Do I have to keep firefox up to use this? If not please tell me :/

No, you don't need Firefox at all. Just download it with your favorite browser (mine is Safari), double-click to unzip it, and double click on Eve Skill Monitor.wdgt to install it into the Mac OS X Dashboard.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Fri, 21 Dec 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Originally by: Tyranis Bolke
Edited by: Tyranis Bolke on 21/12/2007 08:29:18
Really like the new audible warning. One thing though, if I'm playing, will the Dashboard still open? There's nothing worse then being in a mission/pvp fight and suddenly getting pulled out of the game.

After I released the new version, I got to thinking about that. I don't know how Dashboard will react. Let me know (preferably w/o yelling and screaming if possible) if something adverse happens to you.

If it's an issue, I can implement some command line stuff to check if Eve is running before opening Dashboard. I'll go ahead and add that to my TODO list.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by SuperSarge

Fri, 21 Dec 2009 10:19:00 +0000

maybe I don't get it, but Do I have to keep firefox up to use this? If not please tell me :/

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Tyranis Bolke

Fri, 21 Dec 2009 08:29:00 +0000

Edited by: Tyranis Bolke on 21/12/2007 08:29:18
Really like the new audible warning. One thing though, if I'm playing, will the Dashboard still open? There's nothing worse then being in a mission/pvp fight and suddenly getting pulled out of the game.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 20 Dec 2009 23:02:00 +0000

Originally by: Ryushe
Edited by: Ryushe on 20/12/2007 22:40:39
I did a skin for a pre-API version of an OSX widget based skill checker, which was posted on the forums somwhere in the beginning of 2006 afaik.
Here's a screenie.
If you like it, let me know and I'll send you the whole package for you to look at (includes the code + base files used for it in Illustrator and PS). It featured a front and back skin actually, but I suppose you can strip the back part out :)

Oh cool. Had I known there was another skill monitoring widget, I may have never created ESM. I started ESM because I needed a skill monitor. It was just before the API came out, and I later rewrote it for the API.

I'd like to get your skin into ESM. The backgrounds from your skin would probably need to be resized to make it easier to integrate into ESM. If you feel like packaging that up into an ESM theme, I'll be happy to add it to the theme list.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Ryushe

Thu, 20 Dec 2009 22:39:00 +0000

Edited by: Ryushe on 20/12/2007 22:40:39
I did a skin for a pre-API version of an OSX widget based skill checker, which was posted on the forums somwhere in the beginning of 2006 afaik.
Here's a screenie.
If you like it, let me know and I'll send you the whole package for you to look at (includes the code + base files used for it in Illustrator and PS). It featured a front and back skin actually, but I suppose you can strip the back part out :)

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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 20 Dec 2009 22:28:00 +0000

Originally by: BondJamesBond
Wow, great app. Thanks for this!!

You're welcome. Glad you like it. :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by BondJamesBond

Thu, 20 Dec 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Wow, great app. Thanks for this!!

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Thu, 20 Dec 2009 00:05:00 +0000

Just put up 2.2.0.

Additions
Audible and Visual notification:
Within 1 minute of your skill completing, Dashboard opens (in case you aren't around to hear the sound), and the "Skill Training Completed" Eve sound plays.

Fixes
Fixed a bug that showed the wrong background when changing themes a certain way.
Fixed a logic error in the update process that would cause it to hang in rare circumstances.

Theme Design Changes
Moved the info button CSS definition into the theme CSS file so you can position it wherever you like. See Glass.css for an example.

Notes
Davan's themes are almost ready. Expect them in the next release or the one after (if I'm quick).
Will be working on optional email notification.
As always, let me know if there's a bug I didn't catch.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Davan Sarn

Mon, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Blue Wraith already knows this, but I'm currently working on three theme sets for the EVE Skill Monitor:

Aura
This design is based around the actual EVE in-game interface, available in eight colors, similar to the default Glass theme.
Black
Blue
Red
Purple
Orange
Green
Gold
Brown

Empires
This design is based around the 5 major empires in EVE, it will include images representing each Empire, as well as their logos.
Amarr
Minmatar
Gallente
Caldari
Jove

Trinity
This design is based around the new graphics content, and will feature screenshots of the new ship models and the new logo, 5 color schemes in all.
Arbitrator
Tempest
Megathron
Merlin
Black (generic)

If anyone has any ideas for other themes that they'd like to see, let me know.

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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Sat, 15 Dec 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Originally by: Balogh
The 12 hour time format is a horrible format, in my opinion.

Could you please make this a configurable option? Or at the very least, use the system setting?

Eh, yeah I suppose I could do one of those. I'll add it to the TODO list.

I think I'll make it where you can click on the skill finish time to change formats, so no option on the back for it, since it's a minor feature. Unless the system setting is easier to get, and then I'll use that.

Originally by: Balogh
Originally by: Blue Wraith
Next on the features roster is actual skill finish notification, via an audible message and/or email.

It might save you a lot of work if you use Growl for that. You provide events to Growl and the user configures the kind of notification he likes.
Take a look at the Delivery Status widget for a working implementation of that.

I'm impressed that you made it all the way down to the end of that post.

Notifications will not take a lot of coding the way I finally decided to implement them (with help from a fellow Eve pilot). I'll basically put the widget timer in silent mode when you close Dashboard. It will fire as infrequently as possible and not update any UI components. The sound will be played simply by inserting an embed object. The email will be sent out simply by using the command-line mail command. (I still need to test this to be sure... but I use the mail command in *nix system admin for this same thing.)

I have considered Growl and at some point may provide support for it. The main problem with I have with Growl being the only notification system is that some users may not already use it (I don't currently, though some of the apps I use support it). If they don't already use it, then I'm putting them in the situation where they will have to download a full app to take advantage of a feature in a widget. That seems backwards to me.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Balogh

Sat, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Edited by: Balogh on 15/12/2007 16:49:38

Originally by: Blue Wraith
12-hr time format now used

The 12 hour time format is a horrible format, in my opinion.

Could you please make this a configurable option? Or at the very least, use the system setting?

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Next on the features roster is actual skill finish notification, via an audible message and/or email.

It might save you a lot of work if you use Growl for that. You provide events to Growl and the user configures the kind of notification he likes.
Take a look at the Delivery Status widget for a working implementation of that.
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Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Sat, 15 Dec 2009 07:49:00 +0000

Edited by: Blue Wraith on 15/12/2007 07:50:18
v2.1.0 released

Theme support added.
12-hr time format now used

To design a theme
NOTE: It's pretty late right now, and I hope I'm not talking non-sense.
Only the front is currently theme-able.
Use the default Glass theme as a guide.
Some knowledge of CSS will be required. However, if you stick with the same image sizes as the Glass theme, you can reuse Glass's CSS for your theme.
Design your graphics to your liking. Reuse parts of the Glass theme if desired.
The graphics for ESM were originally designed in layers (separate images for shadow, background, glass effects, etc.). You do not have to use layers, but I would recommend it.
For each theme, you can have different "backgrounds". For instance, Glass has several colors available. You can specify as many or as few "backgrounds" for your theme as you like. The way the CSS is laid out, you can have the visual effects separate from the background and the widget will only change the background image when the user selects a different one.

You may send me your themes and I will include them in the next release of ESM for everyone to use. However, please test your themes before you send them. Below is how you can incorporate your theme into your local copy of the widget in order to test it.

Step 1: Place your graphics files in a folder underneath the Themes folder in the widget. To get into the widget folder, go to /Library/Widgets. Then right-click on Eve Skill Monitor.wdgt and click Show Package Contents. The Themes folder is there. Open that and create a new folder with the name of your theme (wouldn't recommend spaces in the folder name). Place your graphics in that folder however you like. You can look at the Glass theme for an example. It is found in Themes/Glass.

Step 2: Create the CSS (or copy and modify the Glass theme's CSS to work for you) to arrange all the widget elements however you like them. Then add a style tag for your CSS to the Eve Skill Monitor.html page. Glass is there for an example.

If you're familiar with CSS, between the CSS and graphics you can change nearly anything about the widget (sizes, positioning, etc.). I have not made provisions in the code for the overall size of the widget to be changed drastically. So, try to keep it around the same overall size. Let me know if you want to see something different there.

Step 3: Open Classes/themes.js and add your theme information. You can copy and paste the Glass example and change the properties. You can specify as many or as few "background" properties as you like.

When in doubt, look at the Glass example and just play around. If worse comes to worse, all you have to do is download the widget again, and it will overwrite any changes you made to the old one.

Let me know if there are any problems with Theme support, and let me know if there's anything else I can add to.

Next on the features roster is actual skill finish notification, via an audible message and/or email.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Arcon Telf

Thu, 13 Dec 2009 04:24:00 +0000

Originally by: Impericus
stupid question, how do i see the api key and user Id ?

http://myeve.eve-online.com/api/default.asp

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Impericus

Thu, 13 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0000

stupid question, how do i see the api key and user Id ?

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Tue, 11 Dec 2009 14:49:00 +0000

Originally by: Arcon Telf
EDIT: Wait...it just came back to life....I'll let you know if anything else happens. Thanks BW

Whew, had me worried there. Glad it's working for you. :)

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Arcon Telf

Tue, 11 Dec 2009 01:08:00 +0000

Edited by: Arcon Telf on 11/12/2007 01:12:26

Originally by: Blue Wraith
Originally by: Arcon Telf
I'm afraid it's still not working for me. I'm not sure what happened after Trinity...
Last thing I can think of to try is deleting /Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist (where is your home directory). This will clear out the preferences, and you have to put everything in again. Let me know whether or not this works.

I dunno what the heck is going on. I deleted the plist. I deleted the widget. I downloaded it again. And somehow it still appeared with my old info (and consequently doesn't work). Crazy. I'm stumped.

This obviously isn't your fault, Blue Wraith. Not sure what else we can do...

EDIT: Wait...it just came back to life....I'll let you know if anything else happens. Thanks BW

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 10 Dec 2009 23:37:00 +0000

Originally by: Gith Odorne
Thanks! Works fine after the update.

Glad to hear it.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Blue Wraith

Mon, 10 Dec 2009 23:36:00 +0000

Originally by: Arcon Telf
I'm afraid it's still not working for me. I'm not sure what happened after Trinity...

Last thing I can think of to try is deleting /Library/Preferences/widget-com.cornerspeed.kasey.Eve Skill Monitor.plist (where is your home directory). This will clear out the preferences, and you have to put everything in again. Let me know whether or not this works.

Eve Skill Monitor OS X Widget - by Gith Odorne

Mon, 10 Dec 2009 22:54:00 +0000

Thanks! Works fine after the update.