RNOWidgets released for OS4 (also available for MorphOS)

[jPV]

Desktop widgets are small individual utilities placed on your desktop and RNOWidgets is a single application incorporating several of them. RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO standard), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and net), RSS feeds, sticker, and weather.


Features:
- Stylish user configurable widgets (graphics, fonts, colors, etc., can be freely swapped)
- All widgets are freely re-sizeable and moveable
- Pre-defined themes
- Supports alpha channel transparency and has an option to create window drop shadows automatically (with or without compositing)
- ARexx support
- Compatible with clock skins from the Enhancer Software package


Screenshots (click to enlarge):



A demonstration video:
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Please visit the homepage for download links.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Very nice and functional, maybe in the future it would be nice to have an AROS version as well

[jPV]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Very nice and functional, maybe in the future it would be nice to have an AROS version as well

Maybe I should try it again at some point, but couple of years ago I compiled an AROS version for my friend who was looking for a new NG system after his OS4 machine broke down, but there were some issues on AROS. IIRC the complex alarm setup GUI didn't work well on Zune and something else made it unstable.

And am I right that AROS doesn't have compositing engine (aka enhanced mode aka 3D accelerated layers) in its layers.library implementation? That provides smooth real-time transparency/shadow effects on MorphOS and OS4 by using 3D hardware, but on other platforms it would be a bit "meh" with this kind of program... I have the 2D fallback mode with fake transparency there, but it looks crappy when moving/resizing windows or if some other program updates its graphics under the widgets. So it would be quite a compromise on OS3 and I think on AROS too.

[walkero]

@jPV
Thank you so much for releasing your widgets for AmigaOS 4. They are really great and useful. Keep up the good work.

[jPV]

RNOWidgets 1.6 released:

- Added a fullscreen 5-day forecast display for the Weather widget
- Added a 12-hour option to the Digital Clock widget
- Added support for Atom feeds and renamed the RSS widget as the Feeds widget
- Added fullscreen mode for the Feeds widget
- Added placeholders for date/env content in the Pictures widget's paths/URLs
- Fixed a Pictures widget fullscreen crash issue that was introduced in v1.5
- Fixed a memory leak in the Pictures widget
- Rewrote the weather API code
- Other small changes