Steampunk Calendar Orrery Yahoo Widget

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The Steampunk Calendar Orrery Yahoo Widget, written in Javascript and XML for the Yahoo Widget (Konfabulator) Engine. Created for XP, Vista, Win7, 8, 10+ as well as Apple Mac Sierra.

This Steampunk Calendar Orrery Yahoo Widget is an attractive steampunk Yahoo widget for your desktop. Think of it as a piece of Space 1899 high tech.

Perhaps the Martian attack has failed and the humans are returning to Mars for their revenge? This is a piece of the Victorian space technology that human space farers might use in their quest for conquest of Mars. In reality it is one my Steampunk widgets. You can select a date and enter a memorandum for that date, it is fully configurable. An elegant widget - give it a go. There is a brand new version under development now and you can see that being built here on DeviantArt: yereverluvinuncleber.deviantar…

It is more than just starting to do something now. The widget now fully controls a calendar, the calendar wheel rotates, the day under the display indicates the date selected. If a memorandum exists for that day then it can be configured to automatically display. The calendar ring rotate by mouse control, the date, day, month and year display according to ring position. The inner earth and moon rotate, the moon around the earth. The earth rotating around the central glow, roughly follows the track of the window circular frame. The inner wheel with lots of bolts counter-rotates as the main calendar ring rotates. The widget is fully resizable. The right and left hand cogs now rotate.

It was based upon a superb blog navigation device on Ian Tregillis site created by Richard Mueller of 3232 design. His superb bit of Adobe Flash was really inspirational and it made me want to complete it (the original only shows 50% of the device and was limited to running only on web-pages within the browser). My version will add functionality and will run on your Mac or Windows desktop. See the original here:

www.iantregillis.com/

These Widgets are moveable widgets that you can move anywhere around the desktop as you require.The widgets can be resized - Hover the cursor over the widget. Press the CTRL key and use your mousewheel up or down. The widget will resize dynamically.

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 www.rj-texted.se/
Adobe Photoshop CS ver 8.0 (2003) www.adobe.com/uk/products/phot…

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 Sierra.

o Installation of the yahoo widget SDK runtime engine

Yahoo widget engine for Windows - g6auc.me.uk/ywidgets_sdk_setup…
Yahoo widget engine for Mac - rickyromero.com/widgets/downlo…

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.
Instructions for running Yahoo widgets on Windows

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

Instructions for running Yahoo widgets on Mac OS/X ONLY

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:

<key>DockOpen</key>
<string>false</string>

Change to false if it is true.

Double-click on the widgets .KON file and it will install and run

With 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.