DesktopX 2.4 Developer’s Guide
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Email Notify
You can configure this plugin by entering your mailbox details and how often
you want to check. The way it works it to create two new Custom states (you
recall we mentioned these earlier?) called 'New mail' and 'No new mail'. You can define each of
these states to be representative of whether you have mail of not. These could be images or
simply different text.
You may even decide that it makes sense that rather than this object being a 'Layer' it is a
Shortcut to your email program.
Performance Meters
This delivers dynamic graphics to your desktop that would be difficult to create
otherwise.
You can chart CPU and other performance measures in a range of graphs and a range of colors,
all accessible via the 'Configure' button. Tweak to your hearts content! Remember that 'Magic
pink' provides transparency. Also remember that 'magic pink' doesn't work in gradients because
most of the pink in the gradient isn't 'pure' and hence 'magic'.
DX Player
This delivers complete interaction with your media player be it
ObjectMedia, Winamp 2.x or CoolPlayer.
You can define what happens when the user interacts with the object, even to the degree of
whether they are holding down any keys.
In some cases images are needed and you can define them here as well such as gauges for
volume etc.
I'm not going into the detail of the plugin here. Check out the 'Sputnik' player that comes by
default with DesktopX to see what can be achieved with this plugin.
