CoolMon Users---Anandtech Add-On for the forums only-Need Suggestions and Testers

[calpha]

Just a question for all you guys. I've coded up a simple CoolMon addon right now.......And this is not just a test flat file....my add-on actually retrieves the AT Today.cfm (well, HTML) via API calls, and parses it. So far I've got those three basic categories done.

Stats/
New PMs/
Recent Posts/

Here's a screenshot of it
CoolMon.png
I've not parsed out the links yet...was focused on the text first.....but the links shouldn't be too hard....
With Coolmon beta,, you can add links to the panel, which is what I'm working on now.

FYI--> Coolmon just reads from .txt file. U use Windows Scheduler to pull a repeating task however often you want it to refresh.
It will work just as easily with Samuarize, but I'd have to change just a little bit.

Anyway. I'm out for the next day, as I have an interview.....but here's what I've got done so far:
basic Download: Stats, New Pms, Last Posts (all from today page)

Any other areas that you would be interested in seeing? PM Me/Reply here if you have any ideas.

I'd also like to get some testers playing with it. It's a .dll w/ wsh, so all you need is a VB runtime......PM/ or reply if you're interested. For now, I'm only targeting Coolmon since that's what I use. But, like I said, it's a dll and wsh, so you can use it just as easy in Samuarize........

Thanks for any replies, and thanks for those that responded to my call for test pms.

PS. I'm not planning on opening up the code for the DLL side of things....it's not advanced by any means, but I worked hard on getting the shell in place, and would hate to see someone else beat me to the punch......

(VB Boy, you might can talk me into it though)

See ya'll in a day. Got an interview in an hour....and crashing tonight. Up all last night doing support fixes.

 

[Confused]

Looks good! I'm running CoolMon, and Samurize too (different systems), so i could test for either/both, and would more than likely find that very useful!

I may not check this thread (depends if subscriptions are working well lol) so PM me


Confused

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

Nice... i'll try this when i get home later
(when is comes out... )

 

[calpha]

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

As it turns out, coolmon doesn't support embedding Links from it's fileline data. So, I just went through and got all the link pulling done for New PMS, and Recently Posted Topics, and they're not clickable.

Dangit. Off to work in the CoolMon source. Looks Like I may have to program a plugin, and not an add-on script to get it to do what I want.

SOB.

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Nope...it can do links. Just an undocumented trick,dammit.

Now, got another problem reading in files. At least it's open source.
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