> Not weird. I'm also assuming that this tool becomes internation - which may
> result in some traffic. You may then consider of releasing source code so that
> people can put script on their forum, with their translation. For sure, credit
> must remains as is.

This would be the best for admins but this tears away the influence of original author 'cause everyone can make changes as he thinks. It's not easy to put responsibility of your one loved child away and having nearly nothing to do with further development.

I was actually thinking of releasing the source. My concern though is the polling for online status and keep congestion at the projects down. I might make it so web site poll my database in stead of the projects - that would keep the congestion at the projects to a minimum - and spread the traffic. But that's a bit further down as I still have some ideas for this I want to look into first and are still in a learning fase.

As to the internationalization, I was thinking about first of all to add a page at the URL generator that offers users to contribute with translations for the three states. The string mentioned by microtoxic is the way I would implement it. The dataset-thing is a bit above my skill at the moment, but I'm working hard to learn ;)

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[AF>France>Est>Alsace] pH!Lm067:

Wow you where fast :)

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Just put the translation contribution page online.

<a href="http://www.esea.dk/esea/bostranslation.asp">Please contribute with missing languages</a> - Thank you very much in advance :)

(sorry, this board strips target blank, apperently)

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I did find the solution to special characters. The font used with imagestring doesn't include them - but if I use the ttf verdana I should be in the clear ;) It would need some re-coding, but I'll need to do that anyway to take varied string widths into account which I wanted to do anyway ;)

In the meantime, while lots of you hopefully help out with the translation, I'll add the hex color change ability - would propably be available in an hour or so.

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<p>Version 0.7</p>
<p>Added the ability to change colors with hexadecimal numbers.</p>
<p>Parameters:<br>
backhex: changes the background<br>
projhex: changes the project names color<br>
onlinehex: changes the Online text colot<br>
downhex: changes the Down text color<br>
unreachhex: changes the Unreachable text color</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.esea.dk/esea/boincschedulers.php?backhex=aaddff&amp;projhex=aa3311&amp;onlinehex=dd00aa
&amp;unreachhex=2200aa&amp;downhex=aa66aa&quot;&gt;
looks like: </p>
<p><img src="http://www.esea.dk/esea/boincschedulers.php?backhex=aaddff&amp;projhex=aa3311&amp;onlinehex=dd00aa&amp;unreachhex=2200aa&amp;downhex=aa66aa"></p>
<p>NOTE: do not use the number char (#)</p>
<p>This has been added to the <a href="http://www.esea.dk/esea/bos.asp">URL
generator</a>.</p>

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Version 0.8

I've begun the multi language capabilities, but it's on an experimental stage still. The languages that have been gracefully contributed has been added, but some characters are not shown proberly as well as long string currently do not make the image wider (that'll come).

But, something that really works is uptime percentages. Yup, I've added the ability to display uptime percentage in addition to scheduler online status, and if you want, you can choose ONLY to display the uptime percentages.

In addition I've added some pages to the <a href="http://www.esea.dk/esea/bos.asp">URL generator site</a> - so take a look, and try it out ;)

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<p>Version 0.85</p>
<p>Added the ability to have uptime percentages appended directly to the online
status, so now you can choose between nice coloumns, only a space between status
and percentage, and only percentage.</p>
<p>Added simulated images to the URL generator, so now you can see the colors
of all states, and don't have to wait until a projects goes down or gets unreachable.
There's even a simulated image for the odd occurance that none of the projects
are online ;)</p>
<p>Color names for standard colors have been added to the URL generator. One of
them is not found on O'Reilly's list though. The bosgolden color is one I created
for this image. The other standard text colors weren't on O'Reilly's list either,
so I changed them accordingly for best match.</p>
<p>Added the ability to change the tagline color. This way you can choose a color
for it that doesn't clash with the background color.</p>
<p>Change the URLs generated by the URL generator and added them to the image
script. The URLs will now get shorter. The old URLs you may already use will
still work.</p>
<p>Fixed a stupid bug that made the online status for climateprediction disappear
when not online, and especially if it's down. I didn't know the bug was there
until I saw the simulated images, so they've been a great help for me too ;)</p>
<p>I wanted to do alot more from the Coming up list, but I have to get up early
in the morning.</p>
<p>Well, go to the <a href="http://www.esea.dk/esea/bos.asp">URL
generator site</a> for the latest updates ;)</p>

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@ Bruno - thanks for your effort, much appreaciated.

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Version 0.93:

Added background transparency. As the image is .png this might not work in all -internet Explorer versions.

Fixed a bug that made the image display the uptime percentage of Pirates@home as the uptime percentage for BURP in some cases.

Added links page to URL generator site.

Added background image to URL generator so that you can see how transparency works.

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Fixed the backend as SETI@home changed the reporting so it looked like the scheduler was Unreachable when it wasn't.

Added an RSS news feed. It's available here: http://www.esea.dk/esea/bos_devserv_news.asp

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Version 0.97
Made some multi language changes:

- Changed the font from build in font to true type Arial. This eliminates alot of character problems
- The image now has dynamic width. It changes if states in a variety of languages are longer then the standard width.
- Added four languages. I will wait adding chinese and russian untill I have conquered a charset problem. I will look into this saturday when the server is offline anyway

Naturally the URL generator is changed accordingly.

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Very nice !
Just a little mistake : you've forgotten the c in climateprediCtion ;)

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Yes, CPDN has a missing C. It's name it quite long, wouldn't "CPDN.net" be enought as a description.

And, yeah, Czech characters are no dysplayed correctly; their are part of Arial CE.
Unreachable has been translated as "Nedosažitelný" - there should 'z' with hook and long 'y' "Nefunk&#269;ní" has 'c' with hook and long 'i'.

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pH!Lm067: The missing c was fixed just seconds ago ;)

Honza: As the Ariel font wasn't as wide as the standard font, and I originally wanted to use te real names as far as possible I don't think I'll change it back now :) BUT a future version will feature an array of choices as to how the project names should be displayed. Then you can choose between 'climateprediction.net', 'CPDN', 'climate' etc. :)

The uncorrect characters are due to settings on the web server - I'll need one of the upgrades saturday and a reboot to fix that - that's why I didn't try to fix it right now ;) As I'm tying to keep downtime as low as possible I 'bundle' tasks that need downtime ;)

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Sure, take your time.
And thanks again for your effort.

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Version 0.99:

Just a small update before the 1.0 release. Added the possibility to add a timestamp to the image. The timestamp displays the time and date of the last BOS update.

I know the development of BOS has been a bit slow lately, but I'm working on other projects also and BOS seems to run pretty stable. Besides, I've been thinking about the scheme for mirroring which looks to become pretty ambitious :)

Well, I just thought it might be nice to have this timestamp, although it looks pretty odd in this version (my opinion). Ok, I still call it alpha ;)

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