Away Status

[Kenneth-Chile]

Can you create a little status box (AWAY or ONLINE) beside Slots and DL/UL Status? Sometimes, I don't Know my last status and it's more comfortable to read it that typing /away or /back.

Thanks.

[GargoyleMT]

This seems like a nice little change. What if it only shows "Away" if you're away, and nothing if you're not? (ie. like the CAP/NUM lock indicators in Word) Were you just envisioning Online = the opposite of Away? (If not, it might not make too much sense if you have multiple hubs open, and one is disconnected.)

There'd be no mention of away message, which would be good. Where would you position it in the status bar? All the way on the left?

[Marvin]

I like that

[Marvin]

On the left, maybe in bold red.

[Sedulus]

no colors please, it will look ugly on some color schemes

[Kenneth-Chile]

My preferences:

Only the upperletter word: "AWAY" (no away message) like the CAP/NUM lock indicators in Word. (No "ONLINE" word, GargoyleMT is right)

Normal words: No color, no bold.

On the right side, before and beside the Slots avaible/used indicator.

Kenneth.

[Marvin]

it will look ugly on some color schemes

Well, you're not supposed to see it, as you're away . I meant it as ugly as possible. It would help me to see it when I'm back!

[GargoyleMT]

Done. No color, capital "AWAY", etc.

I need to separate out some other patches to send to Arne too, this'll be in there.

The only oddness is that the 6th division on the bottom will not show up until you set your status to Away. Then it'll be resized and show up.

[Kenneth-Chile]

Done. No color, capital "AWAY", etc.

I need to separate out some other patches to send to Arne too, this'll be in there.

Wow ..great...so fast!

The only oddness is that the 6th division on the bottom will not show up until you set your status to Away. Then it'll be resized and show up.

A minor detail Why don'y initialy you write a four blank spaces word " " to create it from the beginning?

Kenneth

[GargoyleMT]

Wow ..great...so fast!

It's not an involved change, only 5 or 9 lines. Plus, it's something I will appreciate too, so...

[quoteA minor detail Why don'y initialy you write a four blank spaces word " " to create it from the beginning?[/quote]

Good suggestion. Due to the variable width font that my system uses, I couldn't use create a blank string with the size of the "AWAY" string (it's in a string table so it can be localized to other languages), I had to use one twice the size. It's pretty close that way, at least.

[Kenneth-Chile]

A minor detail Why don'y initialy you write a four blank spaces word " " to create it from the beginning?

Good suggestion. Due to the variable width font that my system uses, I couldn't use create a blank string with the size of the "AWAY" string (it's in a string table so it can be localized to other languages), I had to use one twice the size. It's pretty close that way, at least.

Another idea, create it initialy in AWAY, then change it inmediatly(next instruction) to blank. That pair of instructions will be invisible for users(miliseconds)

[GargoyleMT]

Another idea, create it initialy in AWAY, then change it inmediatly(next instruction) to blank. That pair of instructions will be invisible for users(miliseconds)

Well, I did a little bit better than that. I copied some of the code for the auto-sizing of the parts of the status bar, and I set the width of that segment when the status bar is created (so I never had to set any text in it to get the correct size).

I included this in an email to Arne just now. If he has problems with how I implemented it, he'll let me know.

[Jack]

great lil' feature, good idea