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ldoodle
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10 months ago

Table style widget + values from PropertSource - possible?

Hi, I’m just fiddling now but I had a thought about exposing at least Windows resources Windows Update info. The only way I’ve been able to do this is with an Alert style widget, but it doesn’t look...
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    Mike_Moniz
    10 months ago

    Having tables support property columns is a popular request. I suggest submitting that as feedback to LM. I’m not sure how color bars would work for properties since they are not numbers but perhaps there is a way to implement something close.

    As a workaround, perhaps you can create a “Info” DataSource that reports the version as a number. Like perhaps remove all the dots after the first one and do some zero padding (so 1.9.1 → 1.09001). Without the padding 1.10.2 (1.102) will come before 1.9.1 (1.91).

    There are also some forum posts you might find that do hacky tricks to use the API to generate HTML table code which can be displayed by the Text widget.

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ldoodle
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10 months ago

I’m not sure how color bars would work for properties since they are not numbers but perhaps there is a way to implement something close.

Yeah they would need to implement a more complex system for this to handle dates for example. But things like TimeSpan exist in most languages.

Maybe being able to create global functions (from my other Feedback request post) could simplify this. Then in the widget expression field you call that function to return the integer value for use in colour bars.