Version 1.3
-Overhauled SportsCaster methods to get scores
-Move status to after sport
-fix for &#183 bug
-Upcoming Games (only Today's)
-Show teams record if game is upcoming
-Show time of upcoming game
-Winning Team has > next to name

Version 1.2
-Sorted Games
-Option to hide progress bar
-Start with power off
-Remember Watched Games
-Fix Autofit
-Many Bug Fixes

Version 1.11
-Uppercase sport
-Tabbed Game Status

Version 1.1
-Added Ability to "Watch" multiple Games
-Added support for MLB, NFL, CFB, CBB, NHL, NBA
-Cycle through all types of sports

Version 1.01
-Added NFL Support
-Added Status of game (inning, quarter, etc)
-Added Progress Bar

Ideas for next release
-Alert window on score changes


Here's my latest panel, so far just college football and mlb games are supported. On sunday I'll add support for NFL. Let me know if anybody has any suggestions or finds any errors. All feedback is welcome

Click on the game to stop it from cycling.

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Nice panel I_M will be thrilled But I think News seems like a better category for that

Hi!

How about adding UK Premier League Football Scores as well as UEFA Cup scores?
( for more info if you are not in UK try this link below and have a look !!



http://home.skysports.com/


Maybe that will give you a few more ideas... ( have fun ! )

BTW Where are you ?





Mike.

Best. Panel. EVER.


-- Primis.

Bravo! Is this done from ESPN?

cbs sportsline...lot of improvements coming tomorrow!

new version posted, anybody having any issues?

Still looking good.

It'd be nice to be able to select which leagues/sports you want it rotate through instead of just one at a time. Just a simple menu under the Panel Properties with checkboxes to enable/disable leagues.

Look forward to getting the NHL, NBA, and NCAA Hoops in there. I like my ticker applet from The Score and all but, it's nice to get something in there that's more DS-ish.


-- Primis.

Picking Leagues might be a little difficult because cbs sports line doesn't order their scoreboard by league and there would be no easy way to do that dynamically.

I'm thinking about making it so you can have all the sports cycling at once if you wanted and be able to turn off certain sports.

NHL, NBA and NCAA Hoops will all be available in the next release

any other suggestions?

That's really basically what I was meaning anyways. One panel that scrolls all the sports you want and can ignore ones you don't. Even then, right now I have two instances running, one for NFL and one for NCAAF. If all else fails I suppose one instance for each still isn't bad I suppose.

Well done, at any rate. This was one thing DS was severely lacking.


-- Primis.

Don't think it would be easy, but it would be cool if you could click on the score in order to pull up the CBS Sportline page for the game.

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Strange, all I get is a red line and no scores.

hmm, go to properties and then choose a sport and click ok and let me know if scores show up

I tried all 3 sports to no avail. I also clicked refresh each time.

This may be proxy related. I was using the previous version of SportsCaster yesterday at home (where there is no proxy). Today, I installed the new version here at work where I have a HTTP proxy. However, the other panels in DSB are working fine. Does SportsCaster inherit the proxy settings as set in DSB? Thanks!

that is the problem, I'll have to add proxy support

Great! Thanks!

Nice, I've been looking for a mlb sportscaster.

Anyone chance for nhl support in the near future?

Thanks

I just started a thread and requested something like the picture is showing and got directed over here. I like your plugin but I have some suggestions....

1) Have all games at the same time, instead of a slideshow...
If you're just interested in one of the games, you can scroll down to it (if you want to keep the list short I mean...

2) If possible, display time and period of the game as well...

I don't know, just something to think about maybe

BUT THE MAIN THING I NEED NHL Scores!!!
What kind of site would you need to grab the scores from?

Here's the a pic of my thoughts and the thread I started:
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/forums/index...?showtopic=5061

I'm releasing a version tonight that looks pretty close to that. I just need some games to start so I can test it. Hopefully all goes well

YAY YAY YAY!!!!
You don't even know how happy you just made me...
I'm gonna sit here pressing F5 'til it show up...

Seriously, that's awesome, I'm excited to try it out!

Nik

my guess it it'll be up around 6:00 pst...I have actuall work to do

Boooooo to actual work.

Mainly because I have it to do yet as well tonight, so boooo!! ;-)


-- Primis.

new version posted. Remember, it's still beta so it will have errors. Please let me know any errors encountered so I can fix them ASAP. Any more suggestions are welcome

also, to watch multiple games, click on the Watch radiobutton and then click on the watch tab and click the games you want to see all at once

What can I say... you got it spot on.... GREAT WORK!

Couple of things that I've noticed in these couple of minutes that I've tried it...
1) Islanders/Rangers game, the clock is messed... no biggie, thought I'd let you know.
2) Is it even possible to have a feature of viewing all games at the same time? I mean, have all in one tall space, and if you need the space, switch to the cycle? or make tall enough for 2 games and scroll the rest.

Other than that, just a fenomenal job...

Oh! Is the Alerts working? On score change?

Nik

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You mean like that?

Goto preferences, Under General, click Watch and then click the watch tab and click all the games you want to see

Oh my holy makrell.... you are amazing. Thank you.
That's just amazing!

if there are no major bugs, alerts will be in the next release and then I'll do a full release.

Also, is there a contest going on? I think I want to enter this panel if there is one

Wow.

Fantastic. This is good stuff here, this new version.

I love being able to select sports to scroll through, and the Watch Games option seems a bit weird and questionable at first until it dawns on you that you can flag ANY games you want on any given night (just for that night), and for a true sports nut that's freaking amazing once you remember that your interests may lay well outside just your home team for a game or two sometimes.

For instance, if I'd wanted to randomly track the Isles/Rangers tonight for some reason, I could have. I normally wouldn't care less about either teams, except it's Isles/Rangers and a big rivalry, so maybe just for tonight I'd like to keep an eye on it. And you can. That's great, and one of those little things you take for granted...

A couple minor niggles.

1) Can we get the sport initials capitalized at the top of the panel (MLB, NFL, NHL, etc). Right now they're all lower-case. It just reads better if the initials are all caps.

2) Similarly, can we get the bottom line ("Final" or $time left) tabbed or shifted over a couple more spaces to the right? Really minor thing, I know. Again, just readability for when you're taking a glace at the ticker...

3) Is there any way to keep the panel from kinda' skipping around from sport to sport and back? I'm betting it's because it's scraping mutliple sports at the same time, and the results all mix in together in the same spot that it pulls from? I don't know how much of a PITA it'd be to get the results sorted before they're cycled through. It's not a big deal obviously, it'd just be icing on the cake.


Great work though. Even Konfabulator doesn't have a multi-sport ticker still (not for Windows version anyways), so DS having one is a coup of proportions I'm not sure many will realize right away.


-- Primis.

new version with tabs and uppercase sport initials. Sorting (hopefully) will be next release along with popup alerts

jgallen23,

Excellent work. Thank you for implementing all of our requests.

Very nice... love it, except I still can't use it with a proxy... other than that, it's awesome....

hmm, do you have your default browser set up for your proxy?

I do... it's an http proxy... other plugins on DSB do work with the proxy... With this new version I get "SportsCaster off".

rightclick and click turn on and see if you get anything

Nothing happens when I click Turn On. The message remains "SportsCaster off". Thanks!

Hey,
I got another request, sorry...
Is there some way to have an option to add all the games to the "watch"-list... select all maybe...
Maybe it's even possible to have it add the new games as well...

I'm sorry, I like to keep track of all games in one night...

Nik

P.S. Again, this plugin is amazing!!!

hello !

it's good idea, this panel but don't work with me !

he does shutdown my desktop...

if you have any idea...

tks.

do you have .net framework installed?

Excellent, excellent, panel.

One request...since you said that these scores are taken from cbssportsline.com, would it be possible to allow scores to be clicked on and be taken to the cbssportsline page (i.e box score and game update)? i guess this would only be the case for games that are final.

Just a thought, but it would be really cool.

Also, how about setting up tabs so that each sport has it's own tab? Not sure how difficult, but just another thought (and request) . Thanks in advance.

I was thinking about making it so you could view the game cast if you click on the game, would that work for you?

Also, Tabs might be a good idea, I was trying to think of a way to sort the watched list and tabs might be the best way. Thanks for the idea

Watching the gamecast would be an added bonus! That would be sweet. i figured just making a clickable link to the post-game box score and recap wouldnt be too hard. if both are feasible that would be even better

I agree...tabs for the watched games would be nice. But, your the programmer, not me, and so I'm thankful for whatever you're willing and able to do. Excellent job again, excellent job.

NC

jgallen23, yes i have .net framework installed, my probleme come when i installed this plugin and crach my sidebar...

sorry to my english, i want you to explain better...

if you speak french or spanish ?....

tks

Is there any error message? Can you post your dsidebar.log file to the thread? There should be a dsidebar.crash file as well if DS itself crashes.

sorry i don't see this file, where is it ?

and i don't have message error, only "big beep" to windows...

i have "dsidebar.xml", no more...

i find !

in the "dsidebar.crash" i find : SportsCaster

in the "dsidebar.log" :

00:53 .\CommandManager.cpp 1197 DispatchCommand newpanel
00:53 .\PanelsManager.cpp 812 >>> Create panel SportsCaster>>>

and now, i have this message : "failed to load ressources from resources file, please check your setup"

If you can help me !

thanks

what version of DS do you have?

1.04 build 75 the last

Try upgrading to build 94... that is the latest build and has lots of changes and it's very stable...

work ! perfectly !

thanks you very much for your help !!!

Love this panel.


Suggestion: Maybe put an option in the preferences on whether to see the bar at the bottom there or not. The colors are just kinda annoying compared to everything else, lol.