aBowman

I’ve been reading through a lot of the comments this morning and noticed that some people don’t have access to all the options for their gadgets. Google has fixed that problem by adding a scrollbar to the options page for universal gadgets. Another problem that people have reported is that they see a 10-15px white border around the gadgets of Google Desktop. You should update or install the latest version of Google Desktop to fix these problems.

Now you can customize the spider before adding it to iGoogle or embedding it to your webpage.

http://abowman.com/google-modules/spider/?edit=true

The background image option is not working from the customization pages when adding the gadgets to iGoogle. It doesn’t seem to like the forward slashes and the semicolon.

Here are the new customization pages for the the Fish and Treefrog gadgets:

http://abowman.com/google-modules/fish/?edit=true http://abowman.com/google-modules/tree-frog/?edit=true

I just finished creating a customization page for the Turtle Gadget that you can use before you add them to iGoogle or your webpage. This should make it easier for users to get the turtles looking the way they want them to look. I will be making pages like this for the other gadgets soon.

I rewrote the color chooser gadget in actionscript/flex and added new features that allow users to more easily find the colors they want. Now instead of just having sliders for RGB, you can point to the color you want or use the HSV and RGB sliders.

You can now add up to five turtles to the turtle gadget. If you already have the turtle gadget installed, you should see that he/she has a new friend.

The next feature I will be adding is the ability to change colors. I’m going to work on the behavior of the turtles too. I’d like them to be able to get tired and full. It would also be nice if they could move around without user interaction. Your suggestions are welcomed.

I upgraded the type-it gadget to actionscript 3 and made the intermediate and advanced modes a little more difficult. For some reason, the font I used in actionscript 2 would not load in actionscript 3 using the flex compiler.

I removed all the intermediate and advanced high scores that were earned with the previous version.

I finally finished version one of the turtle gadget tonight. Right now, you can feed the turtle, pick him up, and make him swim or walk to your mouse. Over the next few days, I will be making improvements and fixing bugs.

This gadget was built using actionscript 3 with the free flex sdk.