Recommended Posts

I was thinking about having the window hide itself when taking screenshots. But, what you can do is have it running with the systray option enabled, close it (click the - top right, or press escape) then use the systray menu (right click the tray icon), and select Upload->Screenshot. That way you can take a full screenshot without it being in the way.

As for the white rectangle issue, no one else has mentioned it yet and i still can't reproduce it :/

If you can get it to work almost on demand with v1.1.0, can you download version 1.0.0 (it's the portable version) and see if you can get it to happen on that one? If it doesn't happen then it's something i changed between the versions which i'll try and find.

  • 2 weeks later...

"tis planned. The biggest problem before was that I had no experience in Objective-C, so the current widget is based entirely on Javascript, CSS, and HTML. Now I know Obj-C, which means there's much more power within my reach through Cocoa. Pretty much anything a regular application can do can now be done with this widget.

Now that you know Objective-C, you can write it as a normal app as well as a widget, and then you can add a blur behind the window like the Windows version uses! :p

Also, the Windows version doesn't have a blur behind the "toasts", looks kinda strange but maybe that's just me.

Actually I think I might be able to achieve the blur through a quartz composition anyway... I'm against a full blown app, because it's the kind of thing the Dashboard is designed to avoid ;)

What I am looking at, though, is a dock droplet that interacts with the widget. So you can take a file, drop it on an icon in the dock, and have it automatically copied to the pasteboard (like is an option now anyway, but you need to do the awkward drag, Dashboard button, drop thing).

  The_Decryptor said:
Now that you know Objective-C, you can write it as a normal app as well as a widget, and then you can add a blur behind the window like the Windows version uses! :p

Also, the Windows version doesn't have a blur behind the "toasts", looks kinda strange but maybe that's just me.

forgot about the blur on the toasts, mainly because i code it on XP so rarely see the blur, i'll add to it later, should be an update out in a few days anyway once i fix a few bugs i've found

Oh, by the way, anyone who wants in on the OS X localhostr 2.0 widget, PM me and I'll keep you up to date. You'll be enrolled for update notifications for the beta version, so one download is all you'll need.

There isn't a usable beta version yet, but it's on the way, and it will be much better than what there is now.

Update 1.1.1 has been released. Couple feature changes plus a few bug fixes:

Bugs fixed:

  • Aero glass blur was not being applied to the toast notifications.
  • Deleting history while uploading caused 100% cpu usage.
  • Starting a screenshot from the top of the screen caused a crash.

Features:

  • Window screenshots - lets you select a window to take a screenshot of. This has a separate button/menu than the normal screenshot mode. A red rectangle around the window shows which window will be captured, left to click to take the screenshot & upload.
  • Proxy support - this will take the proxy settings from IE. Supports the automatic *.pac files. If you have different proxies for different protocoles, the HTTP proxy will be used

Other changes:

  • Added 2 new buttons for the screenshot modes. The preferences button has also changed in appearance and has joined the screenshot buttons in the middle (at the bottom) of the main window and the preferences window.

The update is live and the app should tell you there is an update within 24hrs (only checks once every 24hrs)

  simon360 said:
Oh, by the way, anyone who wants in on the OS X localhostr 2.0 widget, PM me and I'll keep you up to date. You'll be enrolled for update notifications for the beta version, so one download is all you'll need.

There isn't a usable beta version yet, but it's on the way, and it will be much better than what there is now.

I can has? :p

  skelly831 said:
Thanks for the update Mike, the new features are great, especially the screenshot buttons :D

let me know if it still keeps turning into a white rectangle for you. the only thing i changed (that i can remember anyway) to do with the drawing of the app between the first release and 1.1.0 ended up being changed back.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • I don't think RTSS can show the real framerate. In fact, this is the first time I have ever heard about anything showing it.
    • Yeah, Deck's overlay has CPU temps. Maybe they don't want to rely on external dlls to provide CPU temperature graphs on all machines? From my experience with Rivatuner it can be annoying to select the correct CPU temperature sensor.
    • Why would I be praising Microsoft? You do realize I'm well aware the Gamebar is a stinking pile of crap and has been for years, right? Or are you one of those "if you don't critique something at every turn you area clearly a fanboy" people? Yes, MangoHUD is built into SteamOS's Big Picture mode, and up until a few weeks ago, SteamOS was exclusive to... the Steam Deck... for 3 years. Yet you were talking about it as if you didn't need to set it up yourself, like it was built into other distributions, which it wasn't. So if we ignore the real/fake framerate feature, it's really not much different than me setting up my Rivatuner/HWInfo overlay, is it? Valve had the option of building MangoHUD into Steam, like they are doing it now, for 3 years. So let's not pretend Windows hasn't had a basic way to display your framerate built in, keeping well aware how crap it actually is. And I'm not even counting your GPU driver company, because Nvidia, AMD and Intel have their own (somehow even worse than GameBar) overlays. And of course they won't tell you fake/real framerate, why would Nvidia nor AMD want to tell you? That is absolutely a +1 on Valve.
    • As much as I like the push towards Wayland (is Gnome still bickering about window decorations and "you are doing it wrong"ing rest of the industry?) but as an admin, the fact that the FreeRDP (because VNC is dead) implementation is not functional yet is really annoying, as that is what RHEL10, and Debian13, will be stuck with for the next 3-8 years.
    • qBittorrent 5.1.1 by Razvan Serea The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible. qBittorrent is a truly Open Source project, and as such, anyone can and should contribute to it. qBittorrent features: Polished µTorrent-like User Interface Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies) All Bittorrent extensions DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ... Remote control through a Web user interface Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents Torrents queueing and prioritizing Torrent content selection and prioritizing UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support) Torrent creation tool Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex) Bandwidth scheduler IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible) IPv6 compliant Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD qBittorrent 5.1.1 changelog: BUGFIX: Don't interpret wildcard pattern as filepath globbing (glassez) BUGFIX: Fix appearance of search history length spinbox (glassez) BUGFIX: Remove dubious seeding time max value (glassez) BUGFIX: Fix ratio handling (glassez) BUGFIX: Fix compilation with Qt 6.6.0 (glassez) WEBUI: Make General tab text selectable by default (dezza) WEBUI: Add versioning to local preferences (Chocobo1) WEBUI: Make multi-rename search & replace fields use a monospace font (Atk) WEBUI: Fix wrong replacement sequence in IPv6 string (Chocobo1) WEBUI: Fix memory leak (bolshoytoster) WEBUI: Fix path autofill in set location and new category (tehcneko) RSS: Mark matched article as "read" if it refers to a duplicate torrent (glassez) WINDOWS: Update command line help message (KanishkaHalder1771) WINDOWS: NSIS: Don't require agreement on the license page (Chocobo1) LINUX: Fix preview not opening on Wayland (Isak05) LINUX: Add fallback for random number generator (Chocobo1) Download: qBittorrent 5.1.1 | Portable | ~40.0 MB (Open Source) Download: qBittorrent 64-bit installer (qt6) | 41.7 MB Links: qBittorrent Home page | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      urbanmopdubai1 earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Jim Dugan earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • First Post
      Johnny Mrkvička earned a badge
      First Post
    • Week One Done
      viraltui earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      serfegyed earned a badge
      One Month Later
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      654
    2. 2
      Michael Scrip
      227
    3. 3
      ATLien_0
      218
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      150
    5. 5
      Xenon
      145
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!