Program Information
Title: Gadgeteer
Genre/Category: Gadgets/Tools for desktop
Download Size: 2.53 MB
Game File-Type: Executable, gm6 file
Resolution: Highly recommended to have a resolution of at least 800 pixels in height.
Current Version: 1.3
Written In: Registered, converted to gm6 with LateralGM
Additional information: The lib file can be found in the tutorials folder, along with two tutorials to get you started.

Description
Gadgeteer is a program made for your desktop to run useful applications. Here are the current Gadgets available:

Gadgets
• Analog Clock
• Digital Clock
• Flip Calendar
• World Light Map
• Media Player
• Weather Panel
  
  Launchers
• Firefox Launcher
• Internet Explorer Launcher
• Game Maker 7 Launcher
• Game Maker 6 Launcher
• Paint Launcher
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Launcher
• Custom Launcher

Screenshots


The normal display of Gadgeteer. Playing a movie file using the media player.


The configuration screen.

Download
The zip file contains an exe file compiled in Game Maker 7, and a gm6 source file.

Host: YoYo Games
Link Version: v1.3
URL: http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/44441

Mirror 1
Host: Media Fire
Link Version: v1.3
URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?njw3wymkuu5

Mirror 2
Host: Will Host For Food
Link Version: v1.3
URL: http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=43474

Controls

• Click the "-" button to minimize Gadgeteer.
• Left clicking the "G" icon in the system tray toggles the window.
• Right click the "G" icon in the system tray to see more options.
• Clicking the wrench button takes you into the configuration screen.
• In the configuration screen check and uncheck Gadgets you would like to remove or add. Right clicking on the check mark box for some Gadgets shows theme options.
• When you are done in the configuration screen, press the finish button.
• To move Gadgets, right click on the desired Gadget, hold the right mouse button down. Then drag to your desired location. Then release the right mouse button.
• To move Gadgeteer, left click on the Move button, and hold the left mouse button down. Then drag to your desired location. Warning: Don't go to fast while doing this.
• The "X" button quits Gadgeteer.

Known Bugs

• You have to go slow while using the move button
• Using the show desktop feature on windows and clicking the system tray icon to restore doesn't work.

Final Comments
If you want to see your gadget in the official program of Gadgeteer, post your source file on this topic. I always would like to see screen shots of your creativity as well! Please give this program a rating.

Changes List
v1.3

• The weather panel now works for international locations and zip codes starting with zeros
• Some gadgets are now scalable
• The flip calendar actually shows a calendar now.
• A custom launcher has now been included, so that you may make a custom launcher in-game without having to edit the source file.
• The digiclock code has been re-written for speed improvements
• The buttons on the top right hand corner have been made smaller to allow for more room.
• The force to top option has been added.
• The dll that previously controlled the minimize and maximize functions has been dropped in favor of Game Maker's window_set_visible function. This improves speed and responsiveness of the program.
• The checkbox and finish button code has been re-written. Cpu usage in the configuration screen is much, much lower. Please update your lib file if you were using it in previous versions.
• There are no longer any confusing x or y offsets to be made when you create your own gadget/launcher, the tutorial has been updated accordingly.

v1.2

• fixed small weather panel bug

v1.1

• Corrected the location of the gm6 launcher
• fixed some of the code in the source file

v1.0

• Move Button
• Weather Gadget
  • Screenshot: Weather Panel
  • Update: Themes
• Music and Video Player
  • Screenshot: Media Player
  • Update: Progress bar
• Lib to easily make your own gadget.
• Themes for your Gadgets
  • Screenshot: Black Clock
  • Screenshot: Right click menu
• More Launchers
• Documentation & How to make your own gadget.
• Commenting code
• Open Source gm6 and gmk file, the exe will be compiled in gm7

v0.3: Very large speed boosts, uses less cpu cycles.

so it's a sidebar?

Yes, it is.

this is freaking awsome! kinda like the vista ones but you can make your own now! played or should I say used and its wonderfully brilliant!

Thanks! It took about half a year to research (I found only one post in the entire gmc that had a link to download the transparency dll) and another half a year coding on and off.

Cmon people, over 100 views, and only one person wrote a review.

Very nice fluent gadget, I really like the idea. Good configuration.

I presume the weather gadget doesn't work outside the US?

the gm6 button opens gm7.

A nice idea would be to have scripting, so people could make their own gadgets easily. Very nice though, and it takes up less resources than Vistas sidebar, I think.

If I can't make my own gadget, then I am very sad .

Thanks!


It may work in Canada as well, I have yet to test it yet. I was unable to find a consistent xml or rss/atom feed for weather data outside the US.


Oops, I will fix that asap.


That is what the source and lib file is for, what could be easier then gml (a language most people already know)


You can, you just need a pro version of gm6 or gm7

Ok, I have fixed this and a couple other things.

This is actually very handy for windows XP comouters, although I wouldn't advise it on vista, because vista contains most of them features.

This is very nice. Maybe have an option to make it stay on top? Other than that, very nice. Not much to improve. What about making a "compact" version? Something smaller? And the weather info part should scroll. I could just edit the gm6...

edit: It's telling me I'm not connected to the internet. An I am, as you can see. I have no firewall.

edit: Wow, fixed already? You could set the option window_set_stayontop(1) in the game start.

Please remember that it uses gml, so most people on the gmc can start making gadgets right away, rather then having to go through learning other languages, etc.



I will look into a stay on top option.

Also updated to v1.2 (fixed weather panel bug)

Still notice one annoying bug. My zip code starts with a zero. And the weather gadget can't check my weather because of it.

Wow, very nicely done! I also like how it's open-ended for anyone to make their own gadgets.

Overall good, though I do agree that a compact version is the next step.

WOW REALLY NICE!!!! But you should have it so that people can see the weather around the world, eg. New York or Paris.

This will be fixed in the next release (will probably have more compact themes)
If you want it now change this in the object weatherpanel, create event, 1st code section:

change to


and in the next code section replace


change to


Thanks for catching that bug



Ok, thanks for the feedback
Do you want something like this (actual size)?




As I said above, I was unable to find a good feed from somewhere that could do worldwide weather.

...I guess I'll have to wait for you to release a fixed version. Every time I try to edit the gm6, it messes up. The program doesn't show up when i run it. And yes, I did install the lib.

It's great. Just make it so you can put your custom program icons in there. . I wanted to put GIMP,

This is great Its so useful I love it. I already made a Launcher for Flash lol

Thats weird
The only way I can think of this happening is if you compile on gm6, then transfer it to a vista computer
If you did do that, you would have to run it through this. Or you are trying to run gm6 on vista.
Thats the only problems I can think of.

Neither. I have no idea what happened. I even tried re-downloading it.

Some plans I have for the next version are

• Customizing gadget size
• moving gadgets across the entire screen, not just limiting it to a sidebar
• Launchers that you can customize in-game (choose the icon, hover icon, select a program to execute)
• Bug fixes
• Adding backgrounds

Schweet! How do you make it minimize like that?

I can do better and Now I will, oh and to really bug this guy it, won't use dlls, just Game Maker, and it's functions and no extensions... u guys r getting puned by a drag and drop user.

Yeah. Take that !!

mrsmes, please for the love of god tell me that's sarcasm. There are no built in functions to get the weather or interface with windows this way.

Great program you've got here gamer freak! I can't wait to see where this is going in the future!

Sorry about the long wait folks, but school just started, and I had lots of things going on right before school (plus getting spore doesn't help) so I have hardly had any time at all to work on it.
Some things that are done:

• Custom Launchers that you can change in the program itself
• I have been fooling around with backgrounds, but I have discovered that the lag gets way to terrible for advanced shapes.
• Making it stretch across the whole screen produces way to much lag, so that idea was scraped.
• Fixed weather panel bug with zip codes that start with 0, plus it now supports international locations!!!!

where did you find that transparency dll? i've been trying to make one of these too =D
ps--this rocks!

*Bump* Version 1.3 released.

Anyone still interested?

Pretty cool.
i like how it is transparent
cool

Very nice and useful for XP

I have re-uploaded because the gm6 file was corrupted. If you wanna see the source, download it again.

Wow, this is EXTREMELY usefull, nice job. The icons look nice and moving them around works perfect. 9/10, some more gadgets and fixing the errors you mentioned in the first post and its a 10/10 for me.

thats kool, nifty little thing that u got there

Thanks! I haven't checked back on this topic for a while, so I figured I would bump it because the new sections just came out.

Hm.
Pretty cool, but also a bit complex. Adding in new functions doesn't make it easier...
I'd rather have GML than all those new D&D things.
But it looks great! You could probably sell this. xP
I look forward to using this regularly.

Looks good but takes a lot of memory.

Nice , thank you verry nice

Awesome..Is the memory still expandable? I also prefer to use that if ever....


Regards,
mitch
Ordinateur portable pas cher

Wow, I can't believe people are still commenting on this. One thing I would say is that if I were to make this again, I would definitely use a screenshot dll rather than however this one works. For one thing, a screenshot dll would be much more elegant, and I also made this before I realized that you could add objects and events from files.

I've downloaded it and now im using it every day. better than the vista one