A while back, I had an idea for a very simple application that would sit in your taskbar and give you at-a-glance performance info about your system, similar to iStat Pro for OSX. This weekend I finally had time to clean up the code up for release.

The problem is that while looking for a couple of images for the app I happened to stumble across Taskbar Meters, which is pretty much the exact same idea I had. Looks like he has made a better job out of it that me too

Ah well, I have decided to release my version of the app nonetheless:

You can open the app multiple times and set each one to monitor a different value:

I have also decided to post the source up on google code: http://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/

Anyways you can grab version 0.1 here: http://win7-taskbar-mon.googlecode.com/files/Windows7_Taskbar_Monitor_v0.1.zip

Screenshot

DLL
http://www.mikecann.co.uk/Files/GoToDefinition.dll

Source
http://www.mikecann.co.uk/Files/GoToDefinition_source.zip

Post
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4722

EDIT:
It appears that the same functionality is built as standard into FD with the use of the F4 key. Oh well, you can still use this as a shortcut

Its an excellent upgrade and brings some extra features that were lacking in my very basic version.

Copy / Paste of his update:

Liked the plugin so much I decided to add a few features! Posting here with Mike’s permission.

Screenshot

Updates
Added 4 plugin setting options:

Highlight Color (Choose a color for the highlight)
Highlight Whole Words (Choose whether to highlight whole words only or include partial text)
Match Case (Choose whether to match the case of the selection or not)
Add Line Marker (Display a line marker next to highlighted text)

No longer highlights white-space characters

Installation
+ Open FlashDevelop, Click Tools -> Application Files
+ Copy the DLL to the “Plugins” directory
+ Restart FlashDevelop

DLL
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelo … ection.dll

Source
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelo … ection.zip

After a few evenings work however I decided that this project was going to take up a bit too much of my time, especially when I had so much other work to do. So I have decided to release what I have done and let other take it and develop it if they wish.

You login using a twitter account:

Once logged in you are presented with the main interface, plugins are loaded automatically from the directory and displayed as tabs. The reason for doing them as plugins is to allow users to pick and choose what functionality they want their twittbot to have. Also it allows for easy upgrading to newer plugin versions.

Hangman was the primary idea for this project and is implemented as a simple plugin that consists of 3 simple commands:

I have built a simple polling timer for checking new messages from Twitter:

The interface uses docking panels provided by the .NET DockPanel Suite. Docking is demonstrated below with the log window:

The next shot shows me sending a direct message to the “twittgames” account from my “mikeysee” account:

After refreshing, the Hangman plugin then shows the active game states:

Then you play the game by making guesses:

A

And the plugin responds to your guesses:

It is far from complete but as a proof of concept I think it demonstrates the idea. There are many things that could be improved and/or worked upon, such as:

• Implement async calls rather than halting the thread when making a call
• Completing the Auto-follow plugin
• Implementing a database to log previously handled messages
• Enable back-messaging so you can search for previous messages and handle them
• Implement an interface for loading/unloading plugins

For the technology side of things, its was developed in C# .NET 3.5 using the excellent TweetSharp library for interfacing with Twitter. Docking panel functionality is provided by DockPanel Suite.

You can grab the binary for this here: TwitterBot.zip

Source code is available on request. Email: mike.cann@gmail.com

Just to follow on from the previous post and to make it make a little more sense, here is a screenshot of the demo XNA space game i made in a day to show off my new particle engine SDK.

Yup space penguins are attacking the earth!