joshua.maverick: When you say "black outer glow" you mean... ? A shadow effect that starts black at the edge and fades to transparency? If so, if you could describe it in design terms, that would be more helpful.

For example: Start 100% black and 100% opaque at the edge, within three pixels away from the edge fade to 0% opaque.

Yea, I was referring to the shadow, in photoshop, instead of a drop shadow I used an outer glow.

I'm not sure how to describe it in those terms but in Photoshop....

Blend Mode: Normal
Range: 100
Opacity: 80
Spread: 0
Size: 8

This is why I was wondering if I could just give you a png of the background of the widget with the shadow/gradient etc. Does that work?

I guess you could try, in the terms you requested:

Start at 80% opacity, black
End 8 pixels away, 0% opacity

Thanks joshua. I know it is likely not proper design terms, but that is exactly what I need to program the effect.

Oh dude, I wasn't trying to come across preachy, each piece of software uses different terms. If you can program the effect that's great, I don't know the capabilities so I wasn't sure.

Don't worry, I didn't take it as preachy. I know virtually nothing of design packages, so you have to spoon feed me easy-to-understand instructions

How about a button to post the ip address to DynDNS?

Or have an option to automatically update, when an external ip address change is detected.

Hi,

Any way to change the layout of this widget a little (see attached). Seems like it would look better if it was a little more "aligned." But, I don't know if there is a limitation in this regard.

Thanks!
Tim

Tim - I was following the layout of larger widgets, which has the icon offset at the top. When I shrunk it to a single line, I didn't think about reformatting it. Your way makes sense to me.

I just have to see if it is going to stay a one line applet (I am leaning toward not adding any more information - maybe just the interface name). If so, I will try out your formatting.

Thanks